Featured video: what Viking life was like
Introduction, setting the scene for Viking times through the idea of pagans, lack of land and raiding.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 7 min

Video playlist

Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Viking times through the idea of pagans, lack of land and raiding.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 7 min (V310)

Norway's fjordland
Shows the environment of the Norwegian fjords and how little land there was. Most appropriate for Viking raids on Scotland, Ireland and Cumbria. Eastern England was often attacked by Danish Vikings.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 8 min (V311)

Viking burial
Pagan ship burial of the Vikings.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V312)

Viking raid
Explains the dramatic raids by longship in the late 8th century and early 9th century.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 6 min (V313)