The Viking World
Explore the Viking World through ten different themes. We look into people’s social roles and status, the central role of the homestead, beliefs and the encounters between different faiths, as well as conceptions of death and the afterlife. You can also learn more about craftsmanship, trade and raiding, ships and seafaring, life in town-like environments, church building, and the carving of runestones.
201. What is the Viking Age?
Theme: Boundless Encounters
202. How do we know about the Viking Age?
Theme: Boundless Encounters
203. People were valued differently
Theme: Kinship and Hierarchy
204. Living conditions and the unfree
Theme: Kinship and Hierarchy
205. Many different roles for free people
Theme: Kinship and Hierarchy
206. Craftwork and craftspeople
Theme: Divine Craftsmanship
207. Metal, wood, bone and textiles
Theme: Divine Craftsmanship
208. Home and farmstead
Theme: Midgard
209. Food and clothes
Theme: Midgard
210. More than just faith
Theme: Faith and Traditions
211. Similarities between Sámi and Old Norse beliefs
Theme: Faith and Traditions
212. Old Norse and Christian customs and rituals
Theme: Faith and Traditions
213. The living and the dead
Theme: The Living and the Dead
214. Ideas about death and the afterlife
Theme: The Living and the Dead
215. Trading and raiding
Theme: Trade and Raiding
216. Money, weights and slave trade
Theme: Trade and Raiding
217. Ships and the sea
Theme: Waterways
218. Building a ship
Theme: Waterways
219. Town-like trading centres
Theme: Town-like Places
220. Christian rulers and coin minting
Theme: Town-like Places
221. Early church building
Theme: Christian Monuments
222. Runestones and engraving
Theme: Christian Monuments