Home Learning - Friday 16th May

Home Learning Year 3 -  Friday 16^th May
The Vikings settled in:

·                     Islands off the coast of Scotland - Shetland, Orkney, The Hebrides

·                     Around the north and north west coast of Scotland

·                     Parts of Ireland - Dublin is a Viking city

·                     The Isle of Man

Place Names –

Can you find any place names with these endings? These are likely to have been Viking settlements
Place names ending in –by
–by meant farm or homestead (village). These places mark the earliest Viking settlements.
 Place names ending in –thorpe (or -thorp, -throp or –trop)
-thorpe meant farms.
 Place names ending in –toft or-tofts. A -toft referred to the site of a house or a plot of land