The Vikings

Vikings karls and their extended families lived in ...

• two-room longhouses

• barns

• longships

• ne-room longhouses

What was in the centre of a karl's longhouse?

• fabric- or fur-covered benches for seating and sleeping

• a fireplace for cooking and providing light and heating

• chests in which to store special possessions

• a barn-like area for storing animal food and housing animals in wintertime

Most Vikings were ...

• boat-builders

• blacksmiths

• farmers

• kings

Blacksmiths, or metalworkers, made ...

• Blacksmiths, or metalworkers, made ...

• steel-edged knives and double-bladed swords

• steel-edged knives and double-bladed swords

• all of the above

Longships were designed for ...

• ferrying people across rivers, lakes and fjords

• for products being traded between one area and another

• for products being traded between one area and another

• fishing

Viking women enjoyed rights and freedoms not available to most women of their time including ...

• the right to choose their own marriage partners

• the right to choose their own marriage partners

• the right to choose their own marriage partners

• all of the above

Viking children did not go to school.

• True

• False

The Vikings were polytheistic.

• True

• False

The Viking gods and goddesses lived in ...

• Valhalla

• Heaven

• Asgard

• the underworld

Odin was the god of ...

• thunder, fertility and law

• fire, trouble and mischief

• fertility, childbirth and success

• wisdom, war, death and poetry