The Saga Of Biorn
Before watching the video think: What are the characteristics of a Viking?
After watching the video answer: How can you describe Biorn? What did he want to do? Is your first description similar to Biorn?
The Viking Gods Of Norse Mythology
Their idea of Heaven was VALHALLA. Warriors only. You had to die in battle first and be escorted by beautiful blonde VALKYRIES. Here you could clash in battle all day long, your cleft limbs and cleavagings miraculously restored at the close of play. Then you spent all night carousing, feasting, getting roaring drunk and discussing the day's fun.
"Bjorn, when you took my head off with that double-headed axe - just brilliant. I didn't see it coming at all. My blood hit the ceiling! Just wait till tomorrow though. I've got a great revenge planned." "I'll drink to that! Here, barmaid, five hundred drinking horns of Kvas please. And a packet of pork scratchings."
So welcome to the Norse pantheon, which is not just Norway but the rest of Scandinavia - which includes Denmark and Sweden. The Vikings who were Swedes travelled mostly eastwards, and the Danes and Norwegians travelled mostly westwards. (The Swedes also ventured into Finland, which was not too impressed and mostly preferred its own Gods.) And Iceland came into the equation and did its own Viking things from 800 A.D.
Something which helped enormously was that all these people spoke the same Norse language, and would have known their own Kingdoms under the names of Danmark, Vastergotland, Ostergotland and Svealand.
Colonies and footholds were established all over the place, from Greenland to England - where their heritage includes Norfolk and Humberside with many Norse-named villages in between. So Norse mythology went everywhere within reach. (Possibly even North America, but only for a holiday and to pick some grapes.) Even today, several days of the week and also the sun are named for Norse Gods.
Thanks to the richness of its legends, as told in the Eddas and a host of poetic sagas, Norse Mythology is as popular as ever. JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth saga is stuffed with Norse inspiration and takes the whole thing to a whole new dimension. Which is more than you can say for Wagner.
To finish this section you have an exercise using HotPotatoes #3. Remember your previous knowledge and (important) the new knowledge that you saw in the text:
Did you know how the viking children lived?
At first, We thought that they were very violent, hairy, strong and agressive (boys and girls). In this file you can read how did they lived. After the reading, answer this quiz in HotPotatoes#20
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