V as in Viking - abc-Wednesday, Round 6 - V / Alphabe-Thursday - V
This is my 8-year old son, Erik, who has been kind enough to help me with this post. It is Wednesday, June 16th (even if I started this the day before yesterday) and both Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's abc-Wednesday and Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday have the letter 'V' as this week's assignment. Without even opening a dictionary , there was one word that came immediately to mind: VIKING . I nstead of coming up with many different V-words , I am going to try to stick with just one word, ' Viking ' and see what I can do with it. 'Varning för Vikingar' means 'Beware of the Vikings!' These are my son Erik's drawings. Since 'Viking' or the 'Vikings' or the 'Viking Age' is a subject that could fill several books, I have decided to limit my study of the Vikings to just a few things that an eight-year-boy might deem important. The Vikings were people who lived in Northern Europe from about 700 to 1000 A.D. (Take a look a...