Viking Home life
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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What did the Viking men eat at home?
The Viking settlers in England ate a variety of food including- fruits, nuts, grains. The vikings in York, lived close to a river, that meant to have fresh clean water and many kinds of meat (fish). The viking had 2 main meals a day. For vikings, food was a vital part of their life. Some of the food the vikings ate were bread, dairy products, eggs, meat, vegetables and fruits. Vikings had a very wide variety in their diet.
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Meats- beef, mutton, lamb, goat, horse, pork, deer, elk, reindeer, bear, squirrel.
Poultry- chicken, geese, ducks, eggs, golden plover, grey plover, black grouse, wood pigeon, lapwing.
Sea food- sour herring, fermented sharks, coal fish, salmon, ling, oysters, eels, scallops, beached whales, seals and sea weed.
Dairy- goat milk, cow milk, butter, butter milk, curds, cheese, whey.
Fruits- black berries, plums, apples, billberries, figs, grapes.
Vegetables- carrots, turnips, celery, spinach, radish, cabbage, fava beans, peas, beets, onions, mushrooms.
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Grains- barley, rye, oats, rice, flat bread, porridge, buck wheat, millet.
Herbs and seasonings- dill, coriander, pepper, ginger, saffron, cinnamon, bay leaves, vinegar.
Nuts- walnuts, almonds, chest-nuts.
Mostly, vikings ate seafood depending on where they lived.
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How were the houses made? What did it look like?
The viking houses were long rectangular shaped called the "longhouses". Mostly the vikings lived on farms, the viking 'longhouse' were made of wood since the homelands they were living in had lots of trees. The roofs were thatched straws/sticks or reeds. The house itself were made of wood. The inside of the house was more like corridor, which they called 'their room' and in the middle was a cooking fire, there was also a hole in the roof so the smoke from the fire escaped through the hole. Benches were along the side of the walls, that was the only furniture they had. The houses were close to each other to form a small village and also when enemies attacked them, they could protect each other.
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What were home life style?
When the weather was good enough to get out there and do work, they would look for work outside their houses. Some of the chores they did were looking after their vegetable gardens, repairing their houses if needed, dried the clothes if they had any, chopped wood and stacked them ready for winter, fetching water from the well or a stream. They also tanned animal skin to make them into leather. Tanning is a process of turning animal skin into leather.
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Did the viking invade other countries because they were poor?
The vikings were not poor, or starving. Their aim was to improve their country while the rest of Europe was in bad shape. They invaded other countries because stealing was an easy way of making the things they wanted. The vikings were not at all considered as poor people because the things they invaded, they brought home for family. They were successful farmers, metal-workers, fisherman, carpenters and story tellers. They were traders at first but soon found an easy way to make money and got rich. They would raid a few towns and later send someone off to make a deal, pay them off and they will go somewhere else and in return they get payed a lot.
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How many people lived in one viking longhouse?
Many viking families lived together in just one longhouse making it very loud, noisy and dirty. Rich vikings had separate room for them and their family for some privacy. In one building, people and animals lived together, the animals slept/lived at one end of the longhouse and people lived at the other end of the longhouse.
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How long and wide was the viking longhouse?
Viking houses were very long,rectangular shaped buildings. An archaeological investigator have found that a viking longhouse was up to 7 metres wide and 75 metres long. The best evidence, on how long and wide a viking longhouse comes from the Viking Age town in Hedeby, Germany. The longhouse in Hedeby were about 12 meters long and 5 meters wide. The country homes during the Viking World were 30-60 meters long and 5 meters wide. The longest longhouse ever known was found in Lofoten, Norway estimated with the length of 83 meters.
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What religion did the vikings believe in?
The main gods the Vikings believed in were Odin, Thor, Freya, Freyr, Loki, Idun, Hel, but later the vikings converted to Christianity after settling in other countries.
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What land did the vikings originally call home?
The vikings called Norway, Denmark, Sweden their home. In the Viking Age they called Norway Norrvegr and later changed to Noregr. Sweden was Svitjod. The Russian area that were colonised by the Swedish Vikings which was named as Greater Svitjod. Denmark was called Danemark. Sweden and Norway's northern parts were called Finnmark. Iceland was Ìsland and Greenland was Groenland.
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What countries did the Vikings settle during the Viking Age?
The Viking Age was from 793 AD to 1066 AD in European history. Some of the countries the Vikings settled in during the Viking Age were Norse Greenland, Newfoundland and the countries in the present-day we call were Faroe Islands, Iceland, Normandy, Scotland, Ukraine, Ireland, Russia and Anatolia.
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What did the viking men do on their farms?
Since the vikings mostly lived on farms, meant doing some sort of work on the farm including feeding/washing the farm animals like cows, chickens or ducks. They grew oats, wheat or barley for porridges, ale and flour. They also grew vegetables such as onions, beans and cabbages. Some of the animals they had in the farm were pigs, sheeps, goats, cattle and geese. During the winter, they killed animals for food to feed them.
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