The Vikings were experts in trade and exploration1, almost always trading and exploring with other countries. Europe and Asia were the countries they mainly traded with4. The Vikings had one of the best armies of their time and were feared throughout Europe for raiding5. Most of their raids consisted of rapid attacks on villages and towns5. When in battle all Vikings had a battle axe, a shield and a sword to help them in battle5. They are believed to use a drug called anmirifta in battle to regulate their mood during battle5. When they fought in battles and went on raids they wore tons and tons of armor that covered most of their body and metal or leather hats to protect them during battle5. The Vikings were always on the move to unstable and colonized lands. They settled mainly in Europe, New England, Ireland, Scotland and Greenland. It remained in Greenland for over two hundred years. The Vikings were able to bring their boats ashore because their boats had a shallow bottom.1. The Vikings were divided into three different classes; the upper class had economic power 8. The middle class consisted of farmers who were free and could bear arms and could participate in the general assembly, and the lower class were slaves and had no rights 8. Woman played an important role in Viking society were responsible for the farm when their men were away from home and were also responsible for cooking and cleaning8. The Vikings were rich and were good poets and were also good at arts and crafts and were skilled in blacksmithing. They were believed to be the first settlers to arrive in America8. The Vikings were the first to have a first true democracy since ancient Greece8.The religion that...... middle of paper ......by Stiklestad was the most famous battle in the history of Norway15.The Vikings Swedes were the Vikings who were the most powerful11. The Swedish Vikings were also the best traders among all other types of Vikings and it was the Vikings who could have reached North America11. The Danish Vikings were the Vikings who mostly raided villages and robbed people11. The Viking who discovered Iceland was a Norwegian king named Ingolf Arnarson who discovered it in 870 AD11. The most famous Viking was Erik the Red; he killed one of his enemies. The result of killing a man was that he was exiled from Iceland for three years, then he gathered a crew and left Iceland11. He was the first person to find Greenland; then he returned to Iceland and told the other Vikings about Greenland, how it was inhabited and the good natural resources present there11.