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Vikings

By Karen Blaik, Massa


futainah, Mayar Atiye
What Was Life Like for Women
in the Viking Age?
Today, Norwegian women enjoy positions of power in
business and politics, but what exactly were things like
during the long history of the Vikings? Most people
know the legend of the valkyries and have heard of
supposed female Viking warriors known as shield
maidens. Women in the Viking Age enjoyed more
freedom and held more power in their society than
many other women of their day.
What Did Viking Women
Wear?
The Viking woman typically wore a
strap dress with an undergarment
or smock underneath. The strap
dress was a close-fitting dress,
made of coarse material, which
was sewn together. It was either
open or sewn together at the
sides. In addition, gussets could be
sewn into the dress to give it
shape.
What did
vikings cook
and eat?
Vikings ate fruit and
vegetables and kept animals
for meat, milk, cheese and
eggs. They had plenty of fish
as they lived near the sea.
Bread was made using quern
stones, stone tools for hand
grinding grain.
How did the Vikings
get fresh water?
Many Norse voyages were
in shallow water and
tended to hug the coast,
meaning that sailors could
periodically go ashore to
gjfyjd
find fresh water. hjfd
Vikings Culture and
Dance Traditions
• Songs
• costumes
• Language
• Celebrations
• Flag
• Logo
VIKING DANCE

Singing and playing music


were important to the
Vikings, both in everyday life
and for festive occasions.
They sang songs when they
were happy and when they
were sad. They danced, sang
songs and played their
instruments when they had
celebrations of some kind.
VİKİNGS SONGS

Continuing traditions
include Norwegian Medieval
Ballads, which may contain
musical elements from
medieval times. The
categories of these ballads,
which include legend,
chivalric, and nature
mythical ballads, may
indicate the genres of songs
that were sung during the
Viking Age
On the other hand, finds from
VIKING the graves of wealthy
COSTUME individuals show that some
clothes were definitely imported
S

The men preferred trousers and


tunics, whilst the women dressed SOLUTION
in strap dresses worn over
undergarments. Ordinary Viking
clothes were made of local
materials, like wool and flax,
woven by the women.
VIKINGS
LANGUAGE
Like the other Scandinavian languages
modern Icelandic is descended from Old
Norse, the language spoken by the Vikings.
Unlike the other Scandinavian languages,
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Faeroese,
Icelandic has changed very little. Modern
Icelanders can read the medieval
manuscripts with little difficulty.
VIKING CELEBRATIONS
Vikings held feasts for a A Viking feast depended on the
variety of reasons, wealth of the host, but all
seasonal feasts such as Vikings ate well at feast time.
Winter Nights and Jul, They certainly ate more and a
harvest festivals such as better variety of food than the
Mabon, religious rituals, daily meal afforded. Roasted
and for more personal and boiled meats, rich stews,
reasons such as a wedding platters of buttered root
or a celebration of a vegetables, sharp, welcome
successful raiding voyage. greens, and sweet fruits and
nuts meant a rich feast and full
bellies.
VIKINGS FLAG

Scholars conjecture that the


raven flag was a symbol of
Odin, who was often
depicted accompanied by
two ravens named Huginn
and Muninn. Its intent may
have been to strike fear in
one's enemies by invoking
the power of Odin.
Laws related to
women during the
Viking age
The written sources portray Viking women
as independent and possessing rights.
Compared to women elsewhere in the
same period, Viking women had more
freedom. However, there were limits to
this. Even if women had a relatively
strong position, they were officially
inferior to men.
DID WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN
WARS
Women did not participate in trading or raiding parties
(although they clearly participated in journeys of
exploration and settlement to places such as Iceland and
Vínland). Women's responsibilities were clearly defined
to be domestic.

The day to day responsibilities of women included: food


preparation and serving; housekeeping and laundry; child
care; milking and dairy chores; and clothes making, from
spinning and weaving to cutting and sewing. The dividing line
between men's and women's responsibilities typically was
located at the doorway to the house; women were in charge
of everything indoors while everything outdoors was the
responsibility of the men.
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