Age of the Vikings

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1. What name was given to the eastern region of England, conquered and occupied by the Danish armies in the ninth centuary, which had its own legal customs and laws? The Danelaw Town of Luda's People Northern Inlet Arni's Settlement

2. Which Viking raider founded the duchy of Normandy in the tenth century? Pez Rollo Skittle Toblerone

3. Which naval battle off the south-west of Norway late in the ninth century enabled Harald Fine-Hair to unite the whole of Norway under a single crown? Ravnsborg Clontarf Havrsfjord Vejlby

4. What was the name of the fortified military encampment on the Baltic coast which was the headquarters of the Jomsvikings, the semi-legendary professional warriors in the tenth century whose adventures are recounted in Jomsviking Saga? Jomsborg Jomberg Haylie Brae Gamrie

5. What Scottish historical novelist published, in 1817, a long narrative poem set in Viking times, 'Harold the Dauntless'? Henry Vaughan Robert Burns Walter Scott Thomas Carew

6. In which Danish fjord were five eleventh-century Viking ships discovered and excavated in the 1960s? Scoresby Sund Keld Roskilde Sognefjord

7. What is the name of the excavated site in Newfoundland which has been identified as a small Viking settlement dating from the Norse discovery and attempted colonisation of North America c.1000? Staraya Ladoga L'Anse aux Meadows Gnezdovo Hill Fort

8. What is the name of the Neolithic burial mound on the mainland of Orkney which contains twenty-four runic inscriptions dating from the twelfth century? Tumulus Cumwhitton Maeshowe Hügelgrab

9. Which tenth-century king of Denmark erected the great three-sided rune-stone at Jelling, in Jutland, in memory of his father Gorm Gamli ("the old") and mother Thyri, whom he describes as "Denmark's Glory"? Olaf Magnusson Cnut the Great Guttorm Sigurdsson Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson

10. What is the name of the annual fire festival in Shetland, held in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of January? Up-Helly-Aa Jorvik Largs Valsgärde