Postautor: Domi19178 » 20 mar 2010, 1:14
The Vikings were Scandinavians from Norway,Sweden and Denmark.They were strong and tall,with fair anh blue eyes.The word Viking means pirate,and the Vikings sailed to Britain over 1,200 years ago to steal gold,silver and land.They had fantastic ships which carried up 200 people!On 1 November 866,Vikings attacked York,and they called they city Jorvik.Many Vikings came to Jorvik and lived there with their families.In the 1970s,archeologists found lots of clues about Vikings life under a street in the centre of York.TheThe Jorvik Viking Centre opened on this site in 1984.We now know that the Vikings liked music,and they played board games and dice games.They ate meat and lots of fish,fruit and vegetables.They also made bread and they drank beer.Viking women wore long dresses,and the men wore shirts and trousers.Everyone wore jewellery.The Vikings were great explorers-Britain wasn's the only country they visited.Some Vikings went east through Europe to Asia,or south to Africa.Others sailed west to Iceland,Greenland and North America.A Viking called Leif Eriksson sailed across the Atlantic 500 years before Christopher Columbus!