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Viking Voyages and Legacy: Exploring the Norse Expansion

Delve into the journeys and impact of the Vikings across Europe and America, uncovering their motives, settlements, and cultural influence. Learn about Viking navigation, discoveries, and lasting legacy.

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Viking Voyages and Legacy: Exploring the Norse Expansion

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  1. Ronald J. Leach The Vikings

  2. Where does this ship travel?

  3. Did the Vikings travel there?

  4. The Vikings • Who? • What? • Where? • Why? • When?

  5. What were they like?

  6. No !

  7. No !

  8. Where were they going? • Norsemen and Danes often went west and south • Swedes often went east

  9. Why did they go a-Viking? • Primarily farmers and traders BUT ... • Population pressures • Little good farmland at home • Opportunity: Europe was weak

  10. Why did they stop a-Viking? • Settling down, intermarriage • More resistance in Europe

  11. Source: Wikipedia

  12. Vikings in England, Scotland

  13. Lindisfarne

  14. Weymouth (Portland)

  15. Viking conquest of England

  16. Coins from King Canute

  17. Vikings in France • Parisi fortify their city • Normandy • William the Conqueror

  18. Vikings in Ireland

  19. Vikings in Iceland, Greenland

  20. Leif Erickson • Son of Erick the Red • Left Greenland in 1002 • Helluland ("Flat Stones Land"), Baffin Island ? • Markland ("Woodland"), Labrador ? • Vinland (Massachusetts), Newfoundland Saga of the Greenlanders

  21. Vikings in America

  22. L’Anse Aux Meadows

  23. Boat at L’Anse Aux Meadows

  24. Viking navigation

  25. What did the Vikings leave? • Genetic, cultural heritage • Wodin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Freya’s Day • Colonies in England, Scotland, France, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, ... • Helped unify Russia • Major influence on Ireland, England, France,… • Little in North America

  26. Thank you

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