Viking Britain

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Viking Britain

• by Aaisha and Numa

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Viking houses

• Viking houses were built of wood, stone or blocks
  of turf - depending on local materials. The
  houses were long box-shapes with sloping thatched
  or turf roofs. The walls were made of wattle
  (woven sticks, covered with mud to keep out the
  wind and rain). The floor of a Viking house was
  often dug below ground-level, perhaps this helped
  keep out draughts.

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Viking medicine

• Onion soup was fed to the injured to identify
  injuries that were beyond treating! Stinky!

They use boiled-down cows urine to keep a wound
from getting infected.
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Viking food

• From bones, seeds and other food remains at
  Viking sites, we know they ate meat from farm
  animals, and from wild animals that they hunted,
  and collected foods such as berries and nuts.
  They cooked meat in a big stew-pot over the fire,
  or roasted it on an iron spit. Fish and meat were
  smoked or dried to preserve it. Viking bread was
  made from rye or barley flour. They used milk
  mostly to make cheese and butter, then drank the
  buttermilk left over.
• At a feast, guests drank ale and mead (a strong
  drink made from honey). People drank out of
  wooden cups or drinking horns (made from
  cow-horns). Feasts were held to mark funerals and
  seasonal festivals, such as midwinter. Some
  feasts lasted over a week!

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Viking weapons

• The Vikings fought using long swords and axes. A
  good sword was handed down from father to son,
  but Vikings also buried weapons with their owner
  when he died. Wood rots and metal rusts away
  after a thousand years or more in the ground, but
  some remains show what the weapons were
  like.Vikings did not wear much armour, though
  some chieftains wore mail coats. Most relied on a
  round wooden shield for protection. On their
  heads, they wore helmets made of leather or iron.
  A Viking saying was, 'Never leave your weapons
  behind when you go to work in the fields - you
  may need them'.

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Viking clothes

• Vikings wore clothes similar to those of people
  in England, Scotland and Wales at this time. Men
  wore tunics and trousers. Women wore long
  dresses, with a kind of long apron. Clothes were
  made from wool, linen and animal skins. Mostly
  people dressed to keep warm!

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Viking toys

• One Viking game involved a type of bat and ball
  and was called Kingy bats. The children would
  make a circle and each hold a round circle of
  wood. They would then pass a simple ball of tied
  fabric around the circle without letting it fall
  to the ground. The ball may have been hit into
  the air as it was passed from one Viking child to
  another.

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• Thank you for reading
• our presentation
• by Aaisha
• and
• Numa