Famous Vikings
This chieftain established a permanent capital in present-day Kiev.
Rurik
Iceland
The name of the monastery in northeastern England that was attacked in 793.
Lindisfarne
In Ireland, the first things unloaded from the long ships indicated that they might be there to stay.
Large wooden posts
You can see Greenland from Iceland's highest peak called _____.
Snaefell
These are the two names of Rurik's brothers who later became three princes of the Rus.
Sineus and Truvor
This religion spread from Iceland to Greenland.
Christianity
This prominent text provides the framing of Vikings as being barbarian and uncivilized.
Anglo-Saxon chronicles.
This name means "the men who row."
Rus
Greenland was filled with these fertile lands called ____.
This leader assisted King Edward and then was killed in battle.
King Olaf
The Vikings established three summers at this North American settlement called ______ .
Vinland
The Vikings were unsuccessful in their campaign to conquer this city, the richest of the time.
Constantinople
This river was a major transportation hub for the Vikings in Eastern Europe.
Volga
These waterways are dangerous in winter.
Danish Strait
He was so large that no horse could carry him. He made a name for himself with the Normans.
Rollo
Helge and Anna Ingstad has found archeological evidence that Vikings were the first Europeans in North America at this site _____ in Newfoundland.
L'Anse aux Meadows
Through tributes
There is evidence that Vikings traded in this wealthy Middle Eastern city that was built like a perfect sphere.
Baghdad
They traded in this valuable commodity.
Ivory
When he was accused of murder in Norway he and his father fled to Iceland.
Erik Thorvaldson or Erik the Red.
These indigenous groups had a contentious relationship with the Vikings in North America.
The Inuit.
The Vikings also took part in this practice with those they captured.
Sold them into slavery.
This evidence, present in towns in the United Kingdom indicate the Viking's lasting legacy.
The Vinland Sagas