Viking travel

The Gokstad ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway

How did the Vikings travel so far?

Viking Travel: Teachers Notes

Viking Travel: Pupils Work

Using photos to investigate a Viking longboat. (See Gokstad ship for links to photographs.)

Key questions were:

• What state might the remains of this Viking longboat have been in when the archaeologists discovered them?
• Why do you think this Viking longboat was built?
• How do you think it was built?

The work was done during the literacy hour. The focus is on using pictures of Viking ships and a non-fiction text (Viking topic book) as sources of historical information, and on whole class discussion, questioning and evaluation.