Unit 3. What makes people travel?
Vikings - visitors or invaders?
Where did the Vikings come from? Ask the children to find out where the Vikings arrived in Ireland and where they came from and draw out their route on a map. What mode of transport did they use - how long would the journey have taken?
BBC TANDY: Raiders From the North: Long ships
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- BBC TANDY Viking Fact sheet [PDF]
- BBC Learning Zone Clip 138 Longship design [Flash Video]
- BBC Learning Zone Clip 463 Viking long ships [Flash Video]
- BBC TANDY Build your own long ship [PDF]
- BBC Education The Vikings - Travel [article]
Places to visit to find out more about the Vikings in Ireland
- NIEA Nendrum Monastic Site [external link article & video]
- Ulster Museum Viking exhibition [external link article & video]
- National Museum of Ireland Vikings in Ireland Exhibition [external link: article]
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