Vikings

     Yestereday I watched a history video about vikings so today I am going to recap it. The viking were considered the strongest warriors in their time. One of the biggest reasons they were so strong was because ever since they were teens young vikings warriers would row their own boats, they could row for miles and this built up a ton of strength. Young warriors were also taught to play the game "catch the spear" it started with a stick but as they got older it would progress to a spear. The game was to throw spears at each other and catch them and then throw them back as fast as you could. The vikings survived by forming raids on near by towns, they would sail up in their black longboats and steal as much as they could. Their are different guesses as to why the boats were black. But the reason is that they had to put tar on the boat to keep it from falling apart, and the tar was black. When vikings raided they would try and avoided head on battles. But when they were caught in this scenario they usually won. They started it off by having their champion challange any one of the enemies. After the champion won the enemy would start to become disheartend and scared, then the vikings would let loose their beserkers. Besrerkers were.... Crazy. There is no other way to put it. They would go in to a 5 step process called the beserkers rage. First they would strip off their clothes to show that they weren't scared of the enemy. Then they would start howling or makeing some other animal nosie. Third they would start danceing and biteing their shield which was lined in iron. At this point you have a crazy guy without any clothes on, foaming blood from his mouth and only then would he charge at you. When they went in to their rage, there were basicaly couldn't feel pain. You could shoot them but they wouldn't die. The only way to kill them was a loss of blood, a direct shot to their heart or a major blow to the head.