Questions in this quiz: The Vikings

Norse seafarers and raiders 793–1066 AD. Longships, Lindisfarne, Leif Erikson, the Danelaw, Norse mythology in daily life, and Viking settlements from Iceland to Kyiv.

1. The 793 AD raid that shocked Christian Europe targeted a monastery on which island off the Northumbrian coast? — Options: Iona, Lindisfarne, Inner Farne, Anglesey
2. The treaty between Alfred the Great and the Viking leader Guthrum, which formalised the boundary of the Danelaw, roughly followed which two rivers? — Options: The Thames and the Lea, then up the Ouse to Watling Street, The Severn and the Trent to the Humber, The Tyne and the Tees to the North Sea, The Mersey and the Dee to the Irish Sea
3. Which Rus' prince, traditionally regarded as the founder of the ruling dynasty in Novgorod around 862 AD, is named in the Primary Chronicle as the leader of an invited band of Varangians? — Options: Oleg, Igor, Rurik, Sviatoslav
4. In Norse cosmology, what is the name of the squirrel that runs up and down the world tree carrying insults between the eagle at its top and the serpent at its roots? — Options: Ratatoskr, Nidhogg, Veðrfölnir, Hraesvelgr
5. The Gokstad and Oseberg ship burials, two of the best-preserved longships ever found, were both excavated in which country? — Options: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland
6. The Icelandic Althing, established around 930 AD and often cited as one of the world's oldest parliamentary institutions, traditionally met at which site? — Options: Reykholt, Þingvellir, Skálholt, Hólar
7. At which 1066 battle, fought just weeks before Hastings, did Harold Godwinson decisively defeat a Norwegian invasion led by Harald Hardrada? — Options: Fulford, Maldon, Stamford Bridge, Ashingdon