Who wrote it?
Architecture
Regions
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Ages and Empires
Save us from the Norsemen!
Art and Culture
100
The author of the first secular book written in the Sámi language
Who is Johan Turi?
100
This church in Copenhagen reflects the aesthetic tastes of Romanticism
What is the Church of Our Lady?
100
This is the ancestral homeland of an indigenous people and stretches across three Nordic countries and Russia
What is Sápmi?
100
When this calamity struck in 1349, it brought about the collapse of the Norwegian elite
What is the Black Death?
100
The Viking Age is often bookended between these dates
What are 793 and 1066?
100
The only king the English have called “great,” he stemmed the advance of the Vikings and held Wessex
Who is Alfred the Great?
100
The name of the runic alphabet used from the 200s through 1100s on everything from Rune Stones to jewelry
What is FUTHARK?
200
The author of Systema Naturae, which presented binomial nomenclature in 1735
Who is Carl von Linné (Linnaeus)?
200
Drottningholm, home of the Swedish royal family, represents the values of the Enlightenment in this architectural style
What is neoclassical?
200
The parts of England under Viking control and laws
What is the Danelaw? (866-954)
200
The antics of this god will gradually lead to Ragnarök
Who is Loki?
200
The period in Scandinavia from 11,000 BC until the 700s is known as this
What is Pre-history?
200
The “All-father,” poet, and rider of an eight-legged steed named Sleipnir…and not entirely trustworthy
Who is Odin?
200
This statue group in Stockholm's Great Church from the 1480s depicts the defeat of the Danes...and other foreign adversaries
What is St. Göran and the Dragon? (St. George)
300
The “Parable of the Bees” is one example of this author’s ability to weave sacred visions into social commentary
Who is St. Birgitta?
300
Lund Cathedral in Sweden represents this architectural style, made popular in medieval Germany
What is Romanesque?
300
The skillful maneuvering of this regent established a union between Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in 1397
Who is Queen Margrethe I?
300
Christian II’s “Stockholm Bloodbath” in 1520 hastened the end of this medieval effort to unify all of Scandinavia
What is the Kalmar Union?
300
This period brought the Bible into the vernacular, the closure of monastic orders, and the development of tax-and-warfare states
What is the Reformation?
300
This Norwegian king’s centralizing tendencies made him notorious in Icelandic history among the “Good Ones” who lost land and power
Who is Harald Fair Hair?
300
“Sea steed” is an example of one of these, a poetic device used in Old Norse literature
What is a Kenning?
400
The stories of this epic were gathered by Elias Lönnrot during several journeys across Finland in the 1830s
What is the Kalevala?
400
Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, with its late medieval pointed arches, represents this style
What is Gothic?
400
These merchants dominated trade in herring, cod, and fur in the Baltic, and organized as a league in 1358
What is the Hanseatic League? (Hansa)
400
The death of this embodiment of male perfection is a harbinger of the end of the world
Who is Balder?
400
This established absolute royal authority and prevented the monarch from disposing the territories of the kingdom, allowing any reductions to his power, or allowing him to abandon Lutheranism
What is the King's Law? (Kongelov, 1665)
400
A peace deal was made with this Viking in 911 if he would settle in Normandy
Who is Rollo?
400
This was the "World Tree," which connected the three worlds and nine realms in Old Norse mythology
What is Yggdrasil?
500
This man’s arctic travel accounts, First Crossing of Greenland (1890) and Farthest North (1897), inspired Norway’s independence movement
Who is Fridtjof Nansen?
500
The ornament-encrusted "Exchange" building in Copenhagen represents this style
What is Baroque?
500
These three landmasses named in the sagas correspond roughly to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Baffin Island
What are Vinland, Markland, and Helluland?
500
The Bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807 was part of this European conflict
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
500
The age when Denmark and Sweden dominated the Baltic Sea and kept European powers on their toes, from the 1600s through 1721
What is Stormaktstiden / the Age of Great Power?
500
These three figures in the sagas represented the hierarchical structure of Old Norse society: elites, common people and the enslaved
Who are Jarl, Karl, and Thrall?
500
Grundtvig hoped this age, from 1800 to 1850, would “blossom like a rose”
What is the Danish Golden Age?