LOL, it didn't work. We may have started late, but school is happening today! We still have spelling and math to do but this morning we learned about the Vikings, and read part of The Birchbark House.
The Brichbark House is a story about a girl and her family, who are Anishinabe (aka Ojibwah, aka Chippewa) living in the Lake Superior area over the course of a year.
Right now, Karateboy is amusing himself learning about the human body.
Bittygirl is down for a nap, and PE is wanting to be lazy and sleep all day (I figure he has earned it, except that I need him to babysit for me tonight).
Something I recall reading about the Northmen, it wasn't that they were so much tougher, warlike, bloodthirsty than other barbarian tribes, it's who they attacked, they only people that really knew how to write at that time.
It's not for nothing that we have the word Vandalize
(Yes I obess on this time period)
http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm
http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-016.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15268b.htm
http://www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mf/index.html
Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 (Paperback)
by Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080612511X/qid=1138856402/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-1115817-9291128?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
And for FUN (nothing beats fun for having a good time)
THESSALONICA
Harry Turtledove
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671877615/qid=1138857053/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-1115817-9291128?s=books&v=glance&n=283155