World Cultures Exam #2 Extras

Tyrkir

Names Vinland

Leif

Explores Vinland

Bjarni

Finds Vinland

Throvalds

“Throw”, kills natives and then is killed

Theorfinn + Gudrid

Supernatural events, her dies

Thorfinn + Gudrid

Snorri (first baby in Vinland)

Helgi and Finnbogi

brothers

Freydis

Double-crosses Helgi and Finnbogi to get everything for herself

Tyr

decides battles, arm bitten off by fenriswolf

Madonna Filippa

Lady in court

Hamaval

Wisdom poetry by Odin

Birka Grave?

Woman warrior

Why vikings = material culture?

Lack of written sources

Scandinavia

Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Causes of expansion of vikings:

PER (politics, economic opportunity, religion)

New viking tech?

Put a sail on row boats

Four phases of viking expansion

1) seasonal raids, multilayer raiding regional colonization (vinland), royal invasion

3 expansion phases:

1) Discovery (Bjarni) 2) Exploration (Leif) 3) Settlement (named, Trykir)

Myth building did what?

Built nations, gave sense of identity

Meister Gottfried

Wrote Tristan

Queen Eleanor

Promoted courtly love!

Hildegard

Mystic, “god says”

Romanesque art

Not free-standing (gold Madonna = first), lots of gold

Gothic art

Movement and emotion, Roettgen Vesperbild (Madonna and crucified jesus)

Renaissance Art

Linear perspective, all about human body