Archaeological Finds
This type of evidence includes physical remains such as bones, weapons, and buildings found at Repton
Archaeological evidence.
One reason historians treat the Chronicle with caution is because it was written from this perspective.
The type of headgear are Vikings famous for wearing, even though it is historically inaccurate?
Horned helmets
The century that Great Viking Army was most active in Anglo-Saxon England.
9th century.
Repton held significance because it was located within this Anglo‑Saxon kingdom.
Mercia
Archaeologists uncovered a large collection of disarticulated human remains near St Wystan’s Church in this.
Mass grave
The Anglo‑Saxon Chronicle provides historians with named locations and sequences of events, but usually very little of this.
Detail, description of what happened, explanation of who and why the Vikings were in Repton.
The Viking word for a local assembly where laws were made and disputes settled.
The Thing
According to the Icelandic Sagas, the Great Viking Army was led by this warrior and avenger.
Ivar the Boneless
Before the Viking attack, Repton was an important centre for X and Y.
Politics and religion.
Most of the skeletons in the mass grave were discovered to be secondary burials. This means.
They had previously been buried in temporary graves before being moved into a permanent burial site.
"This year went the army from Lindsey to Repton, and there took up their X-Y."
Winter-quarters
The unique method of building ships that made the Vikings longships superior.
The clinker method
The Great Viking Army defeat and occupy this Anglo-Saxon city in Northumbria before Repton?
York
The location of Repton made it valuable to the Vikings because it controlled access to this geographic area.
The central Mercian territory. Which is the central Kingdom from the North to the South.
Coins found at the site were especially useful because they helped historians do this.
Establish a specific time period the Vikings were at Repton.
Despite its bias, the Chronicle is valuable because it helps historians do this when studying Viking campaigns.
Establish a timeline of events. It corroborates dating records used when studying the archaeological evidence.
Which day(s) of the week are named after Norse gods?
Tyrs's day; (W)odin's day, Thor's day, and Frigg's day.
Historical and archaeological evidence suggests the size of the army was unique for the Vikings at the time for this main reason.
It combined many Scandinavian and Viking armies into one.
The Vikings reused an existing structure at Repton for burial purposes. To rest an important father and son.
The church crypt.
This is one limitation of using the mass grave alone to understand what happened at Repton.
It does not explain why the Vikings were there or exactly how the people died.
In the same A-S Chronicle passage as before. They named a King who was driven away from Repton after reigning for twenty-two winters.
Burhred
Which land did the Vikings reach around 500 years before Columbus reached the Americas?
Vinland (North America) - near modern day Canada
The presence of this army helps explain a major change in Viking activity in England.
Transition from raiding to conquest and settlement.
Repton is especially significant because it allows historians to compare physical remains with this type of evidence.
Written sources, predominately the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle