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What do you know about the Vikings?

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

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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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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 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 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 early 12th century baptismal font shows Gunnar lying in the snake pit surrounded by four snakes and with a harp at his feet. A runic inscription reads 'svæn : kærðe' (Sveinn made me). Which font is this?

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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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