The Vikings

The Vikings

A book by 4th Class A
Carrigaline Educate Together National School

Our Viking Book

This book is the work of the children of 4th Class A at carrigaline Educate Together National School.

The book is the result of the research they did over the course of a week learning about the Vikings.

The class was split into groups with each group responsible for researching a specific area. They used a Creative Commons licence to search for appropriate images and also drew their own illustrations. Some have used the Explain Everything app to create short animations to add to their chapters.

At the end of the week all of the chapters were combined to create this book. As a class we went through the book with each group presenting their chapter to the rest of the class.

We hope you enjoy our book.

Chapter Index

Viking Men, Women and Children

Viking Death and Afterlife

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Viking men, women and children

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By Marta, Katie and Devin

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Viking men

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Viking men had lots of life choices, for example, they could be craftsmen and learn how to build stuff. They could become blacksmiths and learn how to make swords or axes or they could become warriors and fight in battle. Viking men wore a knee length shirt made of wool called a kirtle. They also wore a smaller undershirt and the last piece of clothing men wore was some trousers, also made of wool.

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Women
Women baked bread. They did spinning and weaving to turn sheep wool into cloth. They looked after the children, made the families clothes and cooked the two meals a day most families ate on the farm. The women milked the cows every single day. For the marriage the mom and dad would make the children get married at the age of 12 but the husbands side of the family would not expect the wife as part of the family.

Children
Viking children had a quite tough life. If the babies were considered ill they would be thrown into the sea. The healthy babies were given toy Thor's hammers to protect them from evil spirits. The older children didn't go to school.

A thing is a meeting of the viking tribes

Instead the kids would help on their parents farms. The vikings loved to tell stories and sagas to their children by the fire at the end of the day. Instead of going to school the children learned from the sagas. At the age of 12 the children were considered adults. Viking boys or rather now adults were allowed to go to the Thing. The women were not allowed to go to the Thing but were allowed the husbands wealth and land.

The girl's father was usually the one to choose the husband for the children. The children mostly wore: woolen tunics, baggy trousers, shoes made of simple pieces of leather and straps to keep it together. They also carried a leather bag to keep farming tools in. Their toys were sticks used as swords and spears made out of sticks and leather at the top so as not to get hurt while play-fighting.

The end!!

The end!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you enjoyed our book.

By: Marta, Katie and Devin