An engaging and thorough account of Viking raids AND battles: reasons, attitudes, tactics, weapons etc. Covering: raiding as survival, British monasteries easy prey, Lindisfarne and Alcuin’s account. Battles and tactics; ambush, shield-wall, berserkers, hirds, the Boar Snout. Weapons: axes, swords, bows and arrows, daggers, spear. Shields. Shield-maidens: DNA evidence for Viking women in battle. Size of Viking armies. Helmets: scarcity, and absence of horns. The Gjermundbu Helmet, Karl Amiel Doppler and Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Horses – lack of evidence for use in battle. Battle of Sulcoit. Lagertha and Ragnar.
Find the film by searching YouTube’s Weird History channel for “Viking Raids | What It Was Like to Be On the Front Lines”.
16 questions for the 16-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.
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