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About This Quiz
With "The Northman" still in theaters, now's a pretty good time to test your Viking history knowledge. Helmets, battles, Leif Erikson Day - our new quiz has it all. Grab some mead and let's get started.
Fill in the blank: The "Viking Age" (as it's popularly known) lasted from about ______________.
800 to 1050 C.E.
1350 to 1503 C.E.
105 to 55 B.C.E.
Sorry Hagar the Horrible, real Vikings did not wear horned helmets. What popularized that old myth?
Charles Dickens novels
19th-century operas
Norwegian folk songs
Ivar the Boneless was a Viking warrior who helped lead a sizable army through Great Britain. How did he get his weird nickname?
He had a unique fighting style.
He had a physical disability.
Nobody really knows.
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Which of these Shakespeare plays may have been inspired by a Scandinavian folk hero?
"Hamlet"
"Romeo and Juliet"
"The Tempest"
Viking explorer Leif Erikson might have been the first European to ever set foot in North America. When did he go there?
around 800 C.E.
around 900 C.E.
around 1000 C.E.
True or False: The writings of Christian monks helped shape our modern perception of Vikings.
True
False
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During their heyday, Vikings established settlements at which of these European capitals?
Rome, Italy
Dublin, Ireland
Vienna, Austria
A Viking force. usually called "the Great Heathen Army" was defeated by what English monarch at the Battle of Edington in 878 C.E.?
King Edmund I
King Richard III
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex
Leif Erikson Day is observed every year on Oct. 9. Which was the first U.S. state to officially observe this alternative to Columbus Day?
New York
Wisconsin
Minnesota
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