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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers

Quiz for students of the Oxford University online course "Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers"

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In 2008, workmen digging trenches for electrical cables uncovered two early Viking ship burials. The ships dated to AD 650–700 and were probably built in Sweden. Where were these ship burials?

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An important Viking Age hoard was found buried in this vessel. Which hoard was it?

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Which Viking Art style is the ornament of this wind vane?

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This is a reconstruction of the first Cathedral to be built in Iceland. Where was this cathedral built?

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The carving on this rock depicts scenes from the Völsunga Saga. Where is that rock?

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This heated pool once belonged to a famous Icelandic literary character. Who was he?

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These famous remains of two Viking Period houses are in the Fareo Islands. Whereabouts in the Faroes?

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This neolithic monument contains Viking Age runic inscriptions. What is the name of the monument?

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Both Völuspá in the Poetic Edda and the Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda relate how the first two humans, were created from two driftwood trees by the gods. What were the names of the first two humans?

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This Viking Age horizontal mill was excavated at which site in the Orkney Isles?

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