Vikings

Hello!

Yesterday me and my neighbour, Carita, went out to a viking market. The vikings lived in Sweden from around 700 A.D to around 1100 A.D. The vikings were all over Scandinavia, that means Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. They were merchants and travelled all over the world. They were actually the first people to travel to America! 500 years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" America the vikings had been there!! Pretty cool! The vikings are most famous for being very threatening and violent when coming to a new place. Often they didn't ask or negotiate for the merchandise they just took it with force. Many people were very afraid of the vikings, and with all rights! They were pretty scary! If you want to reed more about vikings you can do it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/

Viking house

This place that we went to yesterday was a viking village that they had built up and you could walk around and see how vikings lived and what they did. Very interesting! The people were also dressed up in clothes that were common at that time. Cool! I wish I could go back in time and be a viking for a day!

Inside the house

Shooting with bow and arrow

People dressed up as vikings

Me drinking viking juice!

Viking helmet

Bees!

Viking ship

Sheep