Viking Raids
By: Sebastian Arteaga
I. Introduction
The Vikings were people that lived in communities in Norway;
they Vikings earned a reputation of raiders and stealers and didn`t
earned the reputation they deserved for sailing to America first
then Colon and discovering Greenland, and have written the first
parliament. were self-sufficient. Almost everything they had was
made by themselves: their weapons, clothes and armory. The
Vikings were somehow similar to the Saxons. The Vikings they
began raiding all over places close to Norway such as England,
France and Germany.
The Vikings use raids to get resources they didn’t have, buy
bacause of their excellent abilities Viking raids were successful at
getting resorces they needed.
The Discovery of
Greenland
A Viking named Eric (Erik) the Red, named after his redish-brownyish beard
discovered a place named Greenland. He was an excellent sailor born in 950 AD
and died in 1000 AD. According to Encyclopedia Britannica “Erik himself was
banished from Iceland for three years because he had killed a neighbor in a
quarrel. During his exile, Erik decided to explore the land to the west. About 100
years before, a mariner named Gunnbjörn Ulfsson had been blown off his course
from Norway to Iceland. Sailing back, he had sighted a bleak, snow-covered land.
People told tales of his discovery, but no one ventured to explore the unknown
territory.”
Major Difficulties
The Vikings had a lot of difficulties in there life. they
needed to made all there armory when they were going
to fight and almost all the time the Viking that fought
made his own armory, like the peasants. but they were
so good crafting that they could made all their things
pretty well done. At first the Vikings were in little
communities were it was difficult to survive but they
always look to fight because they thought that if they
died in a war that was the only way to go to vallhala
that was the place were all their gods lived and were
Odin ruled.
II. The Begining of Raids
The vikings were people that survieved by their own lots of people in
that times thought that they were theifs and raiders, and only that. But
that people were complealy rong the vikings worked all together in
their towns, the viking cities were like the manors, it had a lord and a
lot of little houses or places around it. Because the vikings were saw
as pirates and raiders in that moments the other contries or cities had
them fear; so as a result they needed to be constantly getting food
armory and resorce because of this the vikings desided to raid people
and get all their belongings. They used their abilities to do it. No one
knows who had the idea but it work good and badly.
III Different Types of Raids
The Vikings made raids in water and in land. They had lots of
advantages in water raiding because they were excelent sailors so it
was like a captian of a boat with a crew that knew how to fight vs a
not so good captian that had a crew that didn`t know haow to fight
really well in water. The Vikings also raid people at land there raids
were completly devastating, almost all the time everithing was
destroyd and everyone was killed the vikings.
They some like did like a combiend raid
using the baot to get to their destiny and did
the raid in land.
IV Worthy Uses and
Inappropriate Uses of
Viking Abilities
The Vikings were people that had lots of abilities such as being
excellent crafts men and sailors. The Vikings were feared by their
enemies because they sacked a lot, in those
times sacking was pretty cruel because in
that times everything scare a lot. Killing can
Also be a bad use, because if a knight or lord
was killed or slaved the family now had nothing to do.
no one could inherit the lands so the family
needed to go to the town to work a lot. It was
practically damaging their lives. A worthy
use could be farming, or hunting because that produced food and gained
necessary things to live with out killing and damaging people life's.
Trading before Raiding
The Vikings trade even before they started to raid, the
Norse men always looked for goods such as silk, glass,
sword quality steel, silver that wasn't used any more so
it could be melt down and reused. the Vikings tried to
get this spicies in diferent places they search a lot that
they got to this places: Britain Caspian Sea, Rusian
Rivers, Rome, Baghdad, and probably Africa. Until they
realized it was much easier and fun to just go and raid
in diferent places like england and scandivia, or closer
places to Viking territory.
Why Enemies Fear Vikings
The enemies of the Vikings fear them a lot because they were
raiders and if they went to a raid most of the times all was
destroyed and almost everyone killed and if not the survivors
were slaved. so the enemies did not wanted to be raided by
Vikings. Get all their belongings robbed and lose their life. Some
kings paid the Vikings so that the
Vikings didn`t raid them. Some
French Kings paid the Vikings to
prevent the sacking of Paris. In
England the kings paid the
Vikings silvers that they didn`t
raid them this was called Dane tax. This proved that
enemy's feared the Vikings.
Weapons Used
The Vikings used weapons for all their raids. Usually
when They were going to do a raid in the water the
Vikings used two boats of about 40-50 people, When they
got close enough they pull out there swords, crossbows
and spikes and stabbed what they
could of the enemy boat. when t
hey were raiding at land they
used the same weapons. Instead
that they also used the axe. some
of there weapons were robbed
from enemy's either dead or alive.
Their weapons were were pretty effective specially the
axe in land raiding because it was perfect to destroy
Legacy
The Vikings were people that liked to tell a lot of stories of
adventure while they were sailing. This stories were then
called sagas. the Vikings Let a legacy of adventuring to far
lands because they put colonies in green land, ice land. They
got to America before Colon but
they couldn`t set colonies there. the
raids let a legacy of death and stealing
and bought the Vikings that horrible
reputation of killers.
Time Line
793 Vikings sack the monastery at England
794 Vikings attack sites in northern Britain
866 York is captured by a Viking army.
870 Iceland is colonized by Vikings.
871 King Ethelred, the West Saxon king, and his brother
Alfred, defeat the Viking army at the Battle of Ashdown (in
Berkshire).
• 876 Vikings from Denmark, Norway and Sweden settle
permanently in England.
• 886 King Alfred formally agrees a boundary between his
kingdom and land ruled by the Viking King Guthrum (an area
later called “the Danelaw”).
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Time Line
• 950 Vikings from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Hebrides raid
Wales, particularly the coastal monasteries.
• 980 Vikings settle in Greenland, gided by Erik the red
• 982 Erik the Red's father was exiled from Norway for the crime
of manslaughter. He sailed West from Norway with his family and
settled in Iceland.[3] The Icelanders later sentenced Erik to exile
for three years due to "some killings" he committed around the
year.
• 991 Ethelred try to buy Vikings by giving them large sum of
money called Dane Tax
• 994 Olaf of Norway and Sven ‘Forkbeard’, son of the Danish
king, lead an invading Danish army in an unsuccessful siege of
London, and subsequently ravage the south-east.
• 1000 The Vikings reach Newfoundland, but they did not go
beyond the coastal area and their settlement was short-lived.
• 1013 King Sven of Denmark sail up the rivers Humber and Trent
to be accepted as king in the Danelaw.
Time Line
• 1014 Cnut becomes the leader of the Danes on his father’s death and
king of England after the death of Ethelred and his son Edmund
Ironside.
• 1042 Ethelred’s other son, Edward the Confessor, is invited to return
from Normandy as king.
• 1066 Harold Godwinson becomes the last Anglo-Saxon king after the
death of King Edward. King Harald of Norway invades England and
captures York, but is then defeated and killed in the battle of Stamford
Bridge. King Harold is defeated by Duke William at the battle of
Hastings.
Conclusion
The Vikings were not only raiders and stealers, they
made other things and well done, and did amazing
things such as sailing to America. But they also did
horrible things when doing raiding. the Vikings used
their abilitys in many diferent ways like raiding, sailing,
farming, crafting, building, fishing, fighting, killing, etc.
but the Vikings did many diferent things some for bad
and some for good. But we will always now that Vikings
were very skillful people.
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