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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Vikings were barbaric and destructive in their raids!. However, they did have civilized aspects to their society!. They enjoyed music and poetry, and they memorized long complicated stories called sagas, about the exploits of their heroic ancestors and the gods!. They also enjoyed playing complex board games, different sorts of variations on chess!. they had fine metalworkers too, who produced beautiful jewellery , tableware and armour and weapons!. And viking women were skilled weavers who produced beautiful tapestries, some of which have been found in Viking burial chambers!. There are fantastically carved stone monuments produced by Viking craftsmen in Scandinavia!. They also had a form of writing, the runic alphabet, which they used to inscribe their monuments!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It was both!. Read about Norse mythology to get an understanding of Norse (Viking) world-view!. Civilized because of their vast trading networks!. Barbaric due to their violence and general mayhem upon defenseless populations!. However, most N!. European societies were rather war-like in that time!. Write about the civilizing effect of Viking trade routes and then the eventual Christian conversion of the Viking peoples!. (Their old mythological/ societal world view was very violent)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Actually one quite "civilized" aspect of Scandinavian life that the Vikings carried to other lands was the idea of the "Al-thing"!.The alt-hing was a periodic (mostly yearly) gathering of the freemen of all means in an area!. It was a combination legislative body and court!.Common business such as defense and tax gathering were discussed and voted on!.Estates of deceased land owners were resolved, law suits were settled , couples stated their intention of wedlock and troublesome people were identified to be exiled!.The Al-thing might go on for days at a gathering place and be a sort of reunion party for far flung friends and relatives!. The legislative body of Iceland is called Al-thing The Al-thing is thought to be one of the inspirations for England's first Parliament!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |