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Jeffrey canning 8D

Viking at sea, trade and exploration. Jeffrey canning 8D . Viking longships.

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Jeffrey canning 8D

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  1. Viking at sea, trade and exploration Jeffrey canning 8D

  2. Viking longships Viking longships were long and rectangular boats with very flat bottoms. They were able to come right up to shores or banks and down rivers. Smaller boats had about twenty rowing benches and bigger sized boats would have at least 30 and more. Although they were good for shallow areas there bottoms were flat which would have made the boat very unstable in rough and treacherous seas.

  3. Longships and trading/transport ships • Longships differ to trading and transport ships because the longship was used as a war vessel, to show crafting of men and superb quality, to carry kings or earls and to send out messages to different villages. Trading and transport ships were basically designed to trade with other villages and with other tribes.

  4. A Viking ship: • Looks like • flat • Rectangular deck • Benches • Mast • Lots of small oars • Well designed shields on the sides • Carved wood • Long and big design • Dragons head as a mast • Overlapping planks • All-wood design • Lots of rope • Wind ruffled sail • Big steering oar • Sounds/smells • freshly cut wood • Fresh • Creaky • Feels like • Rough parts • Smooth parts • Round • Bumpy • Hard • Sharp • Rough material • Flat surfaces • Splintery

  5. Modern navigation Viking navigation similarities • Using the direction of the sun, east and west • Weather vanes used the wind but wasn’t reliable because the wind changes direction • Sun bearer used the sun to pin point the way to a certain destination, although when foggy they loose sense of direction. • Compass points north, by using the earths magnetic field • constellations, seeing the positions of the stars • Maps , navigational charts by using the earths satellites

  6. A Viking voyage • Today I am setting sail with some of the most meanest, buffest and toughest Vikings you would ever run into. The trip was going well as we set out, but I was wrong. As it got a bit darker the seas got rougher and I seriously needed a sickness bag. My comrades didn’t seem to mind all that much, except for when the usual spray of water came crashing over the side. These guys seriously had some guts. Well none of us got some sleep at night, even if we tried to. It is now the morning and it’s just been the same rough seas during the night. • The seas are now calmer but I’m pretty sure we’ll be spending another couple of nights out here. We packed food from our homes under the boat, and when we got down to it, it was all pretty much cold and a bit stale. We packed tons of meat and heaps of bread to eat on the way. By the third day was hardly a morsel left to eat, and I was starting to get sick of the same old thing, wild boar or cattle sandwich, but it always kept us going. It took us four days to get to our destination, Greenland!

  7. This is a Viking boat that I drew using paint

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