Vikings: Egils Saga

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For this topic you can download teachers notes and learning materials for a series of lessons which will help children to understand what made the Vikings tick.

The Vikings tend to be regarded stereotypically as 'vicious Vikings', raping, burning and pillaging their way around Europe. We wanted the children to understand the full variety of Viking life and culture.
So, the overall key question underpinning the half-term unit was:
Who were the Vikings?

We had five afternoons to explore that question.
We taught this lesson, dealing with Viking sagas and poetry, and Viking values, in Week 4. This was after the class had 'excavated' a Viking burial mound, conducted group investigations of aspects of Viking life, and discovered what place names could tell us about Viking settlement patterns.

by Jacqui Dean