Viking Culture
Viking gathering place in their village to eat, drink mead and socialize.
What is a Longhall?
(Double Score) Vikings god of gods and god of warriors. The Norse allfather.
Who is Odin?
Viking raiding vessels that were the key to viking raiding success and expansion. They could cross oceans and navigate rivers due to their shallow hulls.
What is a longship?
(Triple Score) Viking stories about great raids, warriors and gods.
What is a Saga?
(100 pts per answer) Name at least 3 key Viking settlements.
Where is Normandy (France), York ‘Jorvik’ (England), Dublin (Ireland), Reykjavi (Iceland), Greenland, Newfoundland (Canada), or Russia
Vikings favorite drink made from honey.
What is mead?
Vikings god of the sky whose weapon was a huge hammer.
Who is Thor?
Vikings favorite and most prolific weapon.
What is a battle axe?
(Triple Score) Viking woman that would sacrifice a female slave so that the slave could go with her killed Jarl to Valhalla.
What was an Angel of Death?
(Double Score) the viking leader that founded the Duchy of Normandy, France in the early 10th century.
Who is Rollo?
(Double Score) Professional and sometimes traveling viking poet and storyteller.
What was a Skald?
(Triple Score) Vikings goddess of love and beauty.
Who is Freya?
Viking raiders that rushed into battle insanely.
What was a berserker?
The majestic hall located in Asgard, overseen by Odin, where viking warriors would go after dying in battle.
What is Valhalla?
Viking that discovered and settled in Newfoundland, Canada 500 years before Columbus discovered America.
Who is Leif Erikson?
(Double Score) A viking duel to the death to settle disputes.
What was Holmgang?
A female viking mystic that communicated with the gods and saw visions of the future.
What was a Völva?
(Double Score) Female viking warriors.
What was a shield maiden?
(Double Score) Letters in the viking alphabet found on their version of tombstones.
What are runes?
(Double Score) ‘Mother of Norway’, Queen of Kattegat, the most famous of all viking shield maidens and the first wife of Ragnar Lothbrok.
Who is Lagertha?
An assembly of Viking freemen who governed a community to settle disputes.
What was the Thing?
(Double Score) A male viking mystic that communicated with the gods and saw visions of the future.
What was a Seer?
Viking battle formation where they stood shoulder to shoulder behind their shields.
What was a shield wall?
(Double Score) The year & location of the first Viking raid outside of Scandinavia recorded in history.
What happened in 793 A.D. at Lindisfarne, England?
King of Kattegat that led the first viking raid in England.
Who was Ragnar Lothbrok?