How and Why came the vikings in England?

           

Welcome to the blog about the Viking´s influence in the Anglo-Saxon period. We are going to talk about this theme considering different points of view. It is an interesting subject for us because we are English students and we think it could be useful to share our knowledge with other people.

   The different parts could be for example, the language the vikings used or their influence within the English´s society, as well as what kinds of  ruins are from them. But I think that the main point is how and why they came to England. The vikings attacked Britain´s holy places they found, sacrificing monks who lived there and carried away their treasures. Moreover, they counted with  well designed boats and convenient winds helped these raiders to come and go as they pleased.

   Viking´s influence is an important contribution in whole Great Britain´s history because they introduced new constructions as for example new ships. We  can mention for example the Knarr, the Karve or the Longship. In fact, the war ship has become the cultural icon of  the Vikings.

With such technological improvements, the vikings began making more ocean voyages, as their ships were in a good state to navegate any longer.

The Vikings needed to develop methods of precise navigation, most commonly, a ship was piloted using ancestral knowledge.

     

   We can talk about kinds of ships and their functions,but we also can mention the influence they had in the development of some towns built in Britain and in Ireland. Indeed, nowaday some of them still exist.

I will show you some examples!

This one is settled in Norway, as one of the settlement made for the vikings,and it seems to be a kind of church or a little castle made up of wooden.

                                 




We can see in these pictures of the vikings long house the slight curvature of the roof . This is a direct reflection of techniques and ideas borrowed or cultivated in the building of ships.
The people continued to organizwe in cooperative farmstead, a practice established as early as the Bronze age. A single farmstead would support a number of people, the extended family of the farmer. The long house remains the primary structure for living.