5. Viking Games
• Viking boys spent much of their free time playing at war.
They fought using wooden swords so they couldn’t hurt
each other too badly
• One of their favourite games was called hnefatafl. This was
a game for two players. One player took charge of the red
army, and the other player moved the white army.
7. Viking homes
• These were longhouses, the big room in the longhouse is
dark because it has no windows. The smoke that their fire
made got out from a hole in the roof. All the family kept all
their things in a big wooden chest, they also slept on
platforms and the slaves slept huddled together on the floor.
Everybody worked including the family, the women cooked
and the men worked all day on the farm, girls learnt how to
spin and weave from very young ages.
9. AbouT erik
• Eric the Red was born in Norway around
950AD but grew up in Iceland after his
father was declared an outlaw for
manslaughter, so he and his family had to
move away.
• Eric the Red also got into trouble for killing
people but because the electric chair or gas
chamber hadn’t yet been invented, instead
he was banished, for three years.
10. erik And his fAmily
• Erik had 2 wives, Thorhild and Thorbjarga.
They had three boys and they were called Leif,
Thorvald and Thorstein as well as a daughter
who were called Freydis.
• One of Erik's sons, Leif married a woman
named Thorgunna, they had one son who they
named Thorkell Leifsson.
11. • In 982AD, with his family, he loaded up his longship
and sailed west into the unknown, where he
eventually discovered Greenland. He settled there
and although it was covered in ice and snow, he mis-
named it so it would sound more appealing than it
actually was, this would attract investors and settlers.