For your amusement and as a test of your knowledge about the Viking's and their world, we have put together some questions for you. There are at the moment two different levels.
  • These are the simple questions. Select the questions in the frame below.
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Question 1.
What was the older runic alphabet, consisting of 24 letters, called?

Havamal

Futhark

Heimskringla


















Question 2.
Where was the center for the Æsir cult in Sweden?

Sigtuna

Old Uppsala

Birka



















Question 3.
Who was Snorre Sturlasson?

An Icelandic poet who wrote sagas

The Norwegian king who conquered Iceland

A Viking king in Dublin


















Question 4.
What was an Æsir "priest" called?

Norna

Druid

Godi


















Question 5.
What was the name of the Viking prince who was called to restore order in Novgorod and who was also supposed to have founded the Russian state?

Rurik

Harald

Loki


















Question 6.
Which were the two main trading routes for the Vikings to the Islamic world and the Byzantine empire?

The Vistula and Volga rivers

The Dnieper and Volga rivers

The Oder and Rhine rivers

















Question 7.
What is the big fortification called that the Danes built to protect themselves against Charlemange of France?

Holstein wall

Danavirke

Trelleborg


















Question 8.
What was the Scandinavian body for the administration of justice called?

Hof

Thing

Codees


















Question 9.
What was the Swedish organization called that the king used to mobilize the Viking navy?

Flottkallet

Nibelungen

Ledungen


















Question 10.
What was Ragnarök in Nordic mythology?

The end of the world

The birth of the world

The place where the Giants lived


















Question 11.
What is this Viking-age
art style called?

Mammen

Urnes

Borre


















Question 12.
Wagners opera "The ring of Nibelungen" is based on The Germanic and Scandinavian Vikingage saga "Völsungarna". What is the hero that kills the dragon called?

Reidmar

Sigmund

Sigurd


















Question 13.
Most of the Viking age rune stones are found in Sweden. Do the majority of them date from before or after the introduction of Christianity?

Before

After


















Question 14.
One of the few written sources about the Scandinavian Vikings trading in the east is from an Arabic author describing a Viking funeral in Russia. What was his name?

Salaman el Habib

Ibn Fadlan

Ali Farouk


















Question 15.
What were the names of king Harold Bluetooth's parents? He raised a famous runic stone in their memory in Jellinge, Denmark

Åse & Canute

Gorm & Sigrid

Tyra & Gorm


















Question 16.
In Ragnarök, the end of the world and the great battle between the evil forces and the gods, one of the gods is killed by the terrible wolf, Fenrisulven (Fenrir). Who?

Frej

Thor

Odin


















Question 17.
What was the name of the first two humans according to Nordic mythology?

Åsa & Tor

Ask & Embla

Svein & Sigrid


















Question 18.
In what year did Vikings, under leadership of the Viking cheif Ragnar Lodbrok, attack and siege Paris, France? Paris had to pay a tribute of 7,000 pounds of silver to the Vikings for them to raise the siege.

978

845

1087


















Question 19.
Which one of these sword hilts is from the Viking Age?


















Question 20.
What did the Vikings call Constantinople?

Holmgård

Miklagård

Jorsala