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What do you know about the Vikings?

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This runestone records the name of king who “made the Danes Christians”. Who was that king?

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The ring-chain design running down the centre of this cross is an insular form of the Borre style. This interlace is named after the man who carved the cross. What was his name?

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This sculpture shows the god Thor fishing for Jörmungandr (the Midgard Serpent). Where is this sculpture?

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This fragment of an Isle of Man cross slab shows a figure holding a book and a cross who is trampling a snake on one side and Fenrir Wolf swallowing Odin on the other. Where is this cross?

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This whalebone plaque came from a boat burial in the United Kingdom. Where was this burial?

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This small silver cup has given its name to a Viking Age art style. Which art style is it?

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This peninsula is a naturally fortified site in Orkney. Excavations here show that the settlement was probably the stronghold of a Viking chieftain. Where is it?

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This Ringerike style sculpture was found in the churchyard of an English town. Which town?

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for 851 record “hæþne men ærest ofer winter sæton” (the heathens [i.e. the Vikings] now for the first time remained over winter). Where did they remain over winter?

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This Norse farmhouse was destroyed when Mount Hekla erupted in 1104. Excavations also discovered the remains of a small church and a graveyard. A reconstruction of the farm has been constructed on a site nearby. Where is the excavated farmhouse?

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