Starter quiz
- Complete the sentence. A ______ is a rapid, surprise attack which normally involves stealing something.
- 'raid' ✓
- What is a building lived in by a community who follow religious vows called?
- a priory ✓
- a church
- a cathedral
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- What is the correct historical name for a book or document written by hand?
- a newspaper
- a manuscript ✓
- a magazine
- a leaflet
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- In what year did the Vikings raid Lindisfarne Priory?
- 790 CE
- 783 CE
- 793 CE ✓
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- What was the name given to the boats that Vikings used to raid the priories?
- barges
- longboats ✓
- narrow boats
- canal bots
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- Which statements are correct about where and why Viking raids happened?
- Vikings only raided sites in England.
- Vikings raided religious sites for the valuable objects. ✓
- Vikings started to raid sites across the British Isles. ✓
- Vikings raided religious sites as they wanted to kill monks.
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Exit quiz
- Complete the sentence: The correct word for a place with defences, such as walls, to protect it against attack is ______.
- 'fortified' ✓
- Order the events of Viking expansion, starting with the earliest.
- 1⇔The Vikings raided Ireland.
- 2⇔The Vikings established a fortified camp in Dublin.
- 3⇔The Vikings settled in Dublin.
- Where does evidence of Viking expansion often come from?
- ancient scrolls
- burial sites ✓
- written records
- paintgs and tapestries
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- Which statements about the Vikings expansion are correct?
- Vikings only raided places and then left and moved on.
- Vikings would often settle in places where they had raided. ✓
- Vikings only explored new places by land. ✓
- Vikings often explored new places by sea.
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- What is the name given to the accounts about the Vikings early settlement in Iceland, written 200 years later?
- the Icelandic Stories
- the Icelandic Scripts
- the Icelandic Sagas ✓
- the Icelandic Scrolls
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- Match the dates to the correct description of events in the expansion of the Vikings.
- 870 CE⇔The Vikings arrived in Iceland. ✓
- 985 CE⇔Erik the Red discovered Greenland. ✓
- 1000 CE⇔Leif Erikson discovered Vinland. ✓
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Key learning points
- The Vikings also began to raid monasteries in Ireland, founding Dublin in the 9th century.
- The Norse were seafarers who travelled and settled widely across Europe, as far away as Byzantium.
- In the 9th century, they settled in Iceland, and in the 10th century Erik the Red is said to have reached Greenland.
- Erik’s oldest son, Leif Erikson, travelled as far as North America, calling the land he discovered Vinland.
Common misconception
Pupils may think the Vikings only raided places and left.
Vikings expansion involved sailing to explore new places which they often raided for goods. The Vikings then began to settle and trade in these places.
Keywords
Fortified - fortified means to provide a place with defenses, such as walls, to protect it against attack
Expansion - expansion often means becoming more permanent and larger in size
Seafaring - seafaring means regularly travelling by sea
Saga - a saga is a story of achievements or events in the history in Old Norse or Old Icelandic
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