Vikings never actually wore horns on their helmets!
These brutal men believed that 4 dwarves named: North, East, South and West held up the sky.
A lot of Viking words are still used in English today like: kidnap, shy and slaughter.
They told stories as if they were poems using rhyming words and other poem features.
One Viking named his sword ‘leg biter’ because its bite could kill anything.
The word Viking actually means ‘pirate raid’ that means that if you called someone a Viking you would actually be calling them a pirate raider
The Vikings explored as far as Russia to trade in the Middle-East!
Harald Hardrada died in the battle of Stamford bridge. This was because he and his army were surprised when Harold Godwinsson and his men came so quickly as Godwinsson had been waiting on the south for soon to be William the conqueror to attack.
