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What do you know about the Vikings?

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

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This ship-shaped stone setting is the excavated remains of a ship burial on the Isle of Man. Where is it?

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This 9th century stone sculpture shows warriors attacking with Viking-style swords and battle axes. Where is this stone?

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The Viking Age Kanhave canal (shown by the arrows in the aerial photo) cuts across a Danish Island. Which Island?

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This Gotlandic picture stone shows a warrior riding on an eight-legged horse being welcomed into Valhalla by a Valkyrie holding a drinking horn. Which picture stone is this?

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The image shows a digital reconstruction of a ‘god house’ or pagan temple excavated in Norway. Where was this excavation?

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This decorated axe head has given its name to a Viking Age style of art. Which art style is it?

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This is one of three phallic figures found on an excavated pagan cult site in Sweden. Where was that site?

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In the ninth-century a Viking carved his name on the parapet of a gallery in a church that was very distant from his homeland. Where was that church?

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