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What do you know about the Vikings?

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This tenth-century soapstone mould from Denmark produced both Thor’s hammers and Christian crosses. Whereabouts in Denmark was it found?

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DNA tests on the skeletons from this Danish grave suggest that they are mother and son. The woman is pinned down by two large rocks and the man may have been hanged. Where was this grave?

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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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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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Where would you find these superb Hogback stones?

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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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This stone is believed to show Loki after he was bound. Which English church is it in?

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The wood carvings on Norway's most highly decorated stave church have given the name to a Viking Age art style. Which style is it?

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This island is reached by a tidal causeway and is a naturally fortified site in Orkney. Excavations here show that the settlement was the stronghold of a Viking chieftain. Where is it?

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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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