26. What is the most common object found in Viking graves?

1. sword
2. comb
3. knife/seax
4. Thor’s hammer amulet

27. What was the most common material we believe was used to make the sails on Viking ships?

1. silk
2. wool
3. linen
4. vellum
5. cotton

28. Which battle involving a Scandinavian army is commonly accepted to mark the end of the Viking era?

1. Battle of Clontarf in 1014 AD
2. Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD
3. Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 AD
4. Siege of Paris in 885-886 AD

29. Where do we believe Leif Erikson's Vinland was located?

1. Labrador, Canada
2. Newfoundland, Canada
3. Long Island, USA
4. Calistoga, USA

30. In 885 Danish Vikings besieged a European city with 300 ships and 40,000 troops. Which city was it?

1. Paris
2. London
3. Madrid
4. Anaheim

31. Who was the Arab who wrote the account of a Viking burial on the River Volga?

1. Ibn Miskawayh
2. Jordanes
3. Ibn Fadlan
4. Joseph ben Matityahu

32. Which Danish king ruled over territory in present-day Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Britain?

1. Sven Tveskägg (Sven Forkbeard)
2. Harald inn Hárfagri (Harald Fairhair)
3. Harald Hårdråde (Harald Hard ruler)
4. Cnut Sweynsson (Canute the great)

33. What was the most usual means of payment in Viking times?

1. Silver
2. Gold
3. Sheep
4. Cattle
5. Amber
6. Ships

34. What was the responsibility of the Norns?

1. Controlling the winds and tides
2. Determining the destiny of gods and men
3. Repairing the wrongs done by Loki
4. Pulling the sun and moon across the skies

35. From which country do most of the silver coins come which date from Viking times?

1. The Kingdom of Wessex
2. The Kingdom of the Franks
3. The Caliphate of Bagdad
4. The mines of Blåland

36. What was the tribute called that the English had to pay the Danish Vikings?

1. Daneprofit
2. Danatax
3. Danegeld
4. Wergeld

37. What was the name of the rainbow bridge which joined Asgard to the land of the humans?

1. Helväg
2. Nagelfar
3. Iotenheim
4. Bifrost

38. What was the name of the great empty gap that existed before the world was made?

1. Suttungagap
2. Ymirgap
3. Ginnungagap
4. Sparkagap

39. What traces of Viking houses do archaeologists most commonly find?

1. Wall peat
2. Post holes
3. Chimney stones
4. Foundation stones

40. What was the kingdom of death called?

1. Muspell
2. Nifelheim
3. Hel
4. Svalbard

41. How large was the Danegeld paid by the English to Canute the Great in 1018, for him to pay his forces, roughly?

1. 300,000 kilos of silver
2. 30,000 kilos of silver
3. 3,000 kilos of silver
4. 300 kilos of silver

42. In which year did the Vikings pull down part of London Bridge?

1. 793 AD
2. 882 AD
3. 1014 AD
4. 1082 AD

43. A Russian chronicle claims that a certain Swede founded Russia. Who?

1. Olof Skötkonung
2. Ingvar the Far-travelled
3. Rurik Svenska
4. Oleg, ruler of Novgorod
5. Ivan the Terrible

44. Where do the human beings live?

1. Muspell
2. Midgard
3. Utgard
4. Asgard

45. Which cause of death was considered especially shameful?

1. Dying of old age
2. Dying of illness
3. Drowning
4. Dying in battle

46. What was a Viking trading ship called?

1. Snekke
2. Drakkar
3. Knarr
4. Faering

47. In the Norse account, which two opposites existed before the creation of the world?

1. The World of Ideas and the World of Feeling
2. The World of Water and the World of Land
3. The World of Ice and the World of Fire
4. The Darkness and the Light

48. The River Volga was an important transport route for the Vikings. In which country do you find this river?

1. Bulgaria
2. Russia
3. Ukraine
4. Poland

49. When anyone could kill a condemned person without risk of penalty, what punishment had been imposed?

1. Wergeld
2. Vigilante
3. Outlawry
4. Tort

50. Viking control and influence in Ireland was centered in

1. York
2. Limerick
3. Dublin
4. Wexford
5. Cork

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Sources (among many others):

• Dr. Jackson Crawford, YouTube Lecture Series
• Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
• John Grant, An Introduction to Viking Mythology
• John Haywood, Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age
• Judith Jesch, Women in the Viking Age
• lifeinnorway.net/norwegian-trolls
• Niels Lund,ed., Two Voyagers at the Court of King Alfred -
  The ventures of Ohthere and Wulfstan
  together with the Description of Northern Europe From the Old English Orosius
• Fiona Macdonald, 100 Facts - Vikings
• norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/
• NOVA, multiple episodes
• Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm - A History of the Vikings
• Wikipedia.com

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