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The Viking World

The Viking Age was a time of encounters, travel, exchange and confrontation between people from different parts of the world. Encounters that changed peoples’ thinking so that new ideals and norms appeared in Scandinavia at that time.

22 places 44 min

201. What is the Viking Age?

2:14 audio

202. How do we know about the Viking Age?

1:27 audio

203. People were valued differently

1:05 audio

204. Living conditions and the unfree

1:29 audio

205. Many different roles for free people

3:26 audio

206. Home and farmstead

2:08 audio

207. Food and clothes

2:24 audio

208. More than just faith

2:18 audio

209. Similarities between Sámi and Old Norse beliefs

1:41 audio

210. Old Norse and Christian customs and rituals

1:44 audio

211. The living and the dead

2:40 audio

212. Ideas about death and the afterlife

1:41 audio

213. Craftwork and craftspeople

1:50 audio

214. Metal, wood, bone and textiles

2:39 audio

215. Trading and raiding

1:18 audio

216. Money, weights and slave trade

1:46 audio

217. Ships and the sea

2:00 audio

218. Building a ship

1:43 audio

219. Town-like trading centres

2:31 audio

220. Christian rulers and coin minting

1:20 audio

221. Early church building

1:47 audio

222. Runestones and engraving

2:08 audio