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Age of Vikings

What do you know about the Vikings who played a major role in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages?
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1. What land did the Vikings originally call home?
Iceland ✓
Scandinavia ✓
Russia ✓
Greenland ✓
2. What years cover the Viking Age of expansion?
800 to 1066 ✓
1000 to 1443 ✓
900 to 1233 ✓
1455 to 1700 ✓
3. Who is Loki in Norse mythology?
God of War ✓
God of Fire ✓
God of Rain ✓
God of Sacrifice ✓
4. In Norse mythology, what is the name of enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin?
Valkyrae ✓
Valhalla ✓
Ragnarok ✓
Niebelung ✓
5. Why did the English consider the Vikings to be barbarians?
They wore helmets with horns on them ✓
They could not speak English ✓
They fought with giant axes ✓
They raided religious monasteries ✓
6. The end of the Viking Age is often marked by the Vikings losing a battle to what peoples?
The English ✓
The Germans ✓
The French ✓
The Russians ✓
7. Who is is the most powerful and wisest god of Vikings?
Freyr ✓
Odin ✓
Loki ✓
Thor ✓
8. A head of which animal the Vikings were putting in front of the ship to frighten the spirits of lands they were raiding?
bear ✓
lion ✓
snake ✓
dragon ✓
9. What epic poem written in England tells the story of a Scandinavian hero?
Beowulf ✓
The Golden Legend ✓
The Decameron ✓
The Canterbury Tales ✓
10. Which famous Viking discovered Greenland?
Ragnar Lodbrok ✓
Ivar the Boneless ✓
Leif Ericson ✓
Erik the Red ✓
11. Who thought that England should once again belong to Norway and that he should be the rightful King of England after Edward the Confessor died?
Cnut the Great ✓
Harald Hardrada ✓
Ragnar Lodbrok ✓
Rollo of Normandy ✓
12. What does the word "viking" mean in Old Norse?
Bearded one ✓
Snow man ✓
To raid ✓
Sailor ✓
13. Which Viking discovered and settled North America long before Christopher Columbus?
Leif Ericson ✓
Erik the Red ✓
Sweyn Forkbeard ✓
Harald Bluetooth ✓
14. What type of ships did the Vikings use when exploring and raiding?
Canoes ✓
Longships ✓
Galleys ✓
Caravels ✓
15. What helped to put an end to the Viking Age and expansion?
When the French defeated the Vikings at Normandy ✓
When the Vikings converted to Christianity ✓
When Ragnar Lodbrok died ✓
When the Vikings stopped making their long ships ✓
16. Which European capital was founded by Viking raiders?
Amsterdam ✓
Dublin ✓
London ✓
Brussels ✓
17. The world's oldest parliament was established by the Vikings in which country?
Iceland ✓
Norway ✓
Denmark ✓
Ireland ✓
18. Which kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England was the only one that remained independent of Viking rule?
Wessex ✓
Mercia ✓
Northumbria ✓
East Anglia ✓
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