Table of Contents
What chores did Vikings do?
Children’s tasks in the Viking period Children helped their parents with indoor tasks, such as looking after the fireplace or making food. They also spent time outdoors, where they helped with the animals, worked hard in the fields, as well as gathering firewood, berries and fruit in the woods.
What did the Vikings do in their daily life?
Most Vikings were farmers. They grew crops such as barley, oats and rye and kept cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, chickens and horses. Some Vikings worked as fishermen, catching freshwater and sea fish as well as hunting for whales. Salt was a vital commodity, usually bought from travelling merchants.
What would a Viking child do?
Viking children helped at home with cooking, weaving, and spinning. Younger children worked in the fields and the workshops, helping with metalworking and woodworking. But Viking life wasn’t all work and no play. In the summer, young Vikings swam and played ball, while in the winter they skated and played in the snow.
What did Viking children do all day?
They were expected to keep their fingers busy all day long: sewing and weaving, but most of all spinning wool. VIKING BOYS had to work on the farm, or help to make goods in wood or metal.
What did people do in a Viking home?
However there were popular designs that are considered to be the primary construction type in Viking times and this was the called the Viking longhouse. In this home or Viking longhouse many things would occur, cooking, sleeping, daily chores and much more.
How old were children in the Viking Age?
It is likely that children became adults earlier than they do today. Given the average life expectancy of 40-45 in the Viking Age, it was important that early on children could help and carry out the work of an adult. In Iceland males were legally adults at the age of 16.
What kind of wood did the Vikings use?
There was an abundance of trees in Viking times, and wood would be the primary building material used when constructing a home. Oak was the favoured material for its strength and density. The longhouses roofs would be constructed from either wooden shingles or would be a thatched roof.
What kind of alcohol did the Vikings Drink?
Viking Drinks. The main Viking alcoholic beverages were mead and beer. Like all meads, Viking mead was made from honey. The beer was ale made from barley, with hops sometimes being added for flavor.[1][2] The only other alcoholic beverage the Vikings made themselves was fruit wine, which came from the various fruits that grew in their homelands.