The+Vikings+in+Britain+and+in+North+America

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Professor Bobo is going to talk about the Vikings in Britain and North America. __**The Vikings in Britain and in North America (Iu, Daniel, Jack)**__

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**__Vikings in Britain:__**
**__The Viking invasions in Britain:__** The Vikings invaded Britain in the year **800** (wich was 1200 years ago) in the **9th century AD** and it lasted for 300 years.

One of the first places they invaded was a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne on the **8th of june 783**, in the north east of England, in the north coast of Northumberland. A few years later the island of Iona was attacked and all of the monks were slaughtered.

The Vikings finished invading Britain in **1066 AD** when William the Conqueror was declared king.

**__Vikings in North America:__**
About the year **1000** a viking stranger called Leiv Eriksson was the first person to go to **North America**.

The reason why they searched new lands was so they could be farmers or trade with the natives.

**__Viking houses:__**
The vikings lived in long rectangular houses made with vertical timbers, wattle and dirt or stone. They usually only had one room with a coocking fire in the middle, the smoke came out through a hole in the roof. The animals and people lived in the same building, the animals stayed in one end of the building while the people lived in the other end.

__**Viking gods:**__
-Odin: He was the king of the gods, god of wisdom and poetry. -Frigg: She was Odin's wife, goddess of the household. -Thor: He was son of Frigg and Odin, god of thunder. -Freyr: Was Freyra's brother, god of agriculture. -Freyra: Was Frey's sister, goddess of love, war and dead.

**__Ships:__**
Ther were three types of vessels:

-**Drakka**r:This type of ship was the more prominent. It had capacity to carry 30 pairs of oars. Drakkar were called this way because they had a dragon head in the bow.



-**Schniggen**: It fit about 20 pairs of oars and was able to carry 100 warriors.



-**Skeidhs**: With 25 pairs of oars and a stern highest and best rig that Schniggen.