Vikings Word Search
Raiders, farmers and traders share this Vikings word search: the longship and the knarr, the jarl, the karl and the thrall, the skald reciting a saga, Leif Erikson in Vinland, and the raid on Lindisfarne in 793 that opened the Viking Age.
In Old Norse, going a-viking meant sailing off on a raid, and most Norse people were farmers who never did. Society had three ranks: the jarl at the top, the free karl who farmed and fought, and the thrall, a slave. Free men settled their disputes at an open-air assembly called the thing, and Iceland's Althing, founded in 930, still meets as the country's parliament.
Around the year 1000 Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, reached a land he called Vinland, and the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland proves they got there. To the east, Norse traders rowed down the rivers of eastern Europe to Constantinople, where the emperor kept a bodyguard of Scandinavians, the Varangian Guard. The horned helmet came much later. No Viking helmet with horns has ever been found, and the picture owes most to costumes made for Wagner's operas in the 1800s.
Free Vikings Word Search Online Game
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Vikings Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Vikings word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Vikings has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Althing
- Axe
- Berserker
- Cnut
- Danelaw
- Denmark
- Dublin
- Erik the Red
- Fjord
- Futhark
- Greenland
- Harald
- Helmet
- Hnefatafl
- Iceland
- Jarl
- Jorvik
- Karl
- Knarr
- Leif Erikson
- Lindisfarne
- Longhouse
- Longship
- Normandy
- Norse
- Norway
- Ragnar
- Raid
- Rollo
- Runestone
- Rus
- Saga
- Seax
- Shield
- Skald
- Sweden
- Thrall
- Valhalla
- Varangian
- Vinland