Norwegians

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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1. What is the linguistic classification?
2. What is the religious history?
3. What happened in the 9th century that helped Norwegians become a single group?
4. How did Norwegian Vikings travel to places like Iceland and Greenland?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the linguistic classification?Norwegian belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family
2. What is the religious history?Lutheranism became the sole legal religion following the Reformation in Denmark-Norway
3. What happened in the 9th century that helped Norwegians become a single group?In the 9th century, Norway became a single kingdom with a centralized monarchy. This helped people feel a shared identity that was different from other Scandinavian groups.
4. How did Norwegian Vikings travel to places like Iceland and Greenland?Norwegian Vikings were great sailors. They used their ships to travel, trade, and settle in places like Iceland, Greenland, and parts of the British Isles.

Ethno-national Group: A group of people who share a common ethnicity and national identity.
Dialect Continuum: A dialectal region where adjacent dialects are mutually intelligible, but intelligibility decreases with distance.
Secularization: The process by which religious institutions and beliefs lose social and cultural significance.
Diaspora: The dispersion of any people from their original homeland.