Notes 3/17/10

Vikings

• went up French rivers sacking French cities
• relied on terror
• Go to Paris, The king of France pays the Vikings 6 tons of wealth to never come back. It back fires and it increases the plundering of Europe
• Colonize Greenland and Iceland
• Eirik the Red and Leifericsson from Iceland
• Eirik is banished from Iceland and travels to Greenland
• Fishing and other meat were available, no farming
• Leifericsson yearns to travel
• He discovers Newfoundland in North America
• The colony there only lasts a decade
• Leifericsson returns to Greenland and converts to Christianity
• Christianity unites them
• They find resistance from old Norsemen
• Set up a fire test and has a berserker walk through a Christianity fire and a Pagan fire. He walks through Pagan fire but not Christianity fire
• Harold Hardrada