These Viking Costume Ideas and the Thor Movie Costumes are a unique and fun way to dress up on Halloween...whether it's an out fit just for you, for a couple or for a group.
1. The Viking Costumes are fun!
2. Vikings come in all shapes and sizes...men, women, teens, boys and girls.
10. You can find many Viking costumes at any online Halloween costume stores, costume stores in your neighborhood or you can make one yourself at home.
Who exactly were the Vikings?
- They were a seagoing people who lived around 1000 years ago.
- The Vikings were prolific explorers.
- The Vikings were known as violent plunderers who attacked and conquered port cities with the most advanced ships of the age.
- The Vikings were the first Europeans to settle North America, 500 years before Christopher Columbus arrived.
- The Vikings used a language very similar to modern day Icelandic.
- The Vikings worshiped ancient Gods including Odin and Thor.
- The Viking afterlife was called Valhalla, the place where worthy fallen warriors went after death.
- A Viking longboat required over 80 mature trees to build.
- The Vikings had one of the first versions of a Parliamentary government.
- Viking warriors sometimes drank the blood of vanquished enemies. That's gross!
- The Vikings believed Valkyries determined who lived or died in battle.
- Valkyries were warrior women who rode winged horses.
- Valkyries were considered to be the gatekeepers of Valhalla.
- Valkyries were very difficult to kill, and once killed were easily resurrected by another Valkyrie.
