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What do you know about the Vikings?

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This large iron ring has a runic inscription of almost 250 runes and is the earliest written law in Scandinavia. Where is it from?

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It has been suggested that this small silver statuette with niello inlay shows the god Odin, sitting on his throne. It was found on a high-status site in Denmark. Which site was that?

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This Viking Age cemetery has graves with triangular, rectangular, and ship-shaped stone settings. Where is it?

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The doorway of this stave church contains carving of scenes from the Sigurd legend. Which church is this?

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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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In 921 to 922 an Arab journeyed as an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars. On his travels he witnessed the funeral of a Rus Viking chieftain and wrote a detailed account of the proceedings. Who was he?

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This wind van is decorated with which style of Viking art?

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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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Where would you find these superb Hogback stones?

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The only Viking helmet to be found in the UK was discovered in the 1950s by workmen digging a sewer trench. Where was it found?

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