Far from Home: A Viking’s Quest is a playful way to introduce students to Norse civilization. In Far from Home, students take the roles of Vikings who have set sail with Leif Erikson to create the first Norse settlement in North America. They will meet numerous characters and learn about Viking society and traders, who tell them about other civilizations Vikings have reached or with whom they’ve traded. At the end of the journey, the students land safely back in Scandinavia. There they build a town and, with the knowledge they’ve acquired over their journey, decide what is most important to Norse society.
The Quest is composed of five lessons. In each lesson, the class lands in a new place where there was a Viking settlement in history, starting with Vinland, stopping at Greenland, Iceland, and England, and then arriving home in Norway.
