![]() ![]() It was important that everyone do their part to help maintain the family farm and the many tasks of doing so were divided between men and women. The farmstead was the center of daily life during the Viking Age and healthy crops with a bountiful harvest were critical to surviving the brutal Scandinavian winters. Just like every other society during the Middle Ages, Vikings needed to provide food for their families which usually meant working the land and maintaining the family farmstead. Although Vikings did indeed raid, kill, and plunder many people fail to realize that most Vikings were primarily farmers, fishermen, merchants, carpenters, and craftsmen. Every time someone utters the word ‘’Viking’’ we tend only to think of violent, barbaric warriors in bloodstained tunics who went off raiding, killing, and plundering. Yet the enduring imagery of monks being slaughtered and churches being looted is ever present in our minds. ![]() It has been nearly one thousand years since the last Vikings ventured abroad raiding and pillaging peasant towns and Christian monasteries. ![]()
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