Growing up as a Viking
By Georgina and Emma
Viking Children
Everyday Life for Children.
When children grew up the most common jobs that they would have would be:
Boat Builder
Vikings depended on the sea as it was their only means of travel. They built all of their own boats (known as longships). They would always use the same design but the sizes could vary. They were up to 37 metres in length and could cary up to 100 warriors, 68 of whom had to row.
Warrior
Viking warriors had to follow their lord or king into battle, on a raid or expedition. They could be called to fight at any point in time. Viking warriors fought on foot and they wore very heavy iron helmets, chain mail armor and carried swords, axes, spears and sometimes bows and arrows. A Viking warrior’s weapons were usually buried with him when he died.
Traders
Viking traders often went with warriors on raids and traded things such as timber, leather shoes and bags, smoked fish, amber, fur, artefacts carved from walrus tusks and whale bones, jewellery, and slaves (particularly when the raids started). These things were often exchanged for goods such as wheat, iron, silverware, wine, spices, silks, salt, weapons and glassware. At first the trade was through barter, but later it was for coins.
Viking Runes
Bibliography
References
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