New SS book pg 111
Old SS book pg 119
Made by: Kevin Roper

• The Vikings were skilled _______________.
• Their homeland was Scandinavia in Northern
Europe.
They had sleek wooden
___________________, powered by only by sail and oars, they sailed as far east as Asia, as for south as North Africa, and as far west as North
America.

• Leif Ericcson’s father known as
_____________sailed to island of Iceland.
• Eric was thrown off this island and went to
_________________. Despite its name it is a very cold land.

• Leif Ericcson was interested in rumors of a land still farther west.
• In _________________, he sailed west to see if these rumors were true.
• When he and his crew set foot upon______________________, they were probably the first Europeans to do so.

• These Vikings landed on what is now
Newfoundland on the east coast of
Canada.
• These Vikings had no written language so they created long spoken tales called
________________, repeated from one generation to the next.