They were one of the first to have liquid fire starter. Vikings were one of the first to ski and they did so for fun. An invention the vikings made was the magnetic compass. They used it to tell which direction they are going. They also invented spectacles now we know them as glasses. The long boat was a major one. They used it to travel to new lands. They had cargo ships called knoors. The long ship's …show more content…
Rollo died in 918. Erik The Red founded the first norse settlement in Greenland. Leif Eriksson was the first viking to make it to the new world. He beat Columbus by 500 years. Harold Handrona was the last great viking leader.
The Vikings weren't an organised group. The first Viking raid was in britain Ad 793 and last in 1066. Just like most movies, they buried the dead in their boats. They raided England and France in 845. The Franks paid them 2600 kilograms of silver to go away. Thay invaded France and Englend(for hole list visit https://www.quora.com/What-countries-did-the-Vikings-invade)
They took over Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. They had settlements in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The vikings also were the founders of Russia. The Russian primary chronicle relates in 1862 Rurik the Viking invented slavic and finnic tribes that ruled over them, and they invented a settop of sacrifice that was used in North West Russia. The Viking settled in Ireland in 795 AD. They settled in Scotland between 9th and 12th