How Well Do You Know the Vikings?

How did the Viking siege of Paris in 845 end?

Which battle is being described in this poem: "Then Byrhtnoth began to array men there, rode and gave counsel, taught warriors how they must stand and that stead hold, 20 bade them their round-shields rightly hold fast with hands, not at all frightened. When he had fairly arrayed that folk, he dismounted among them where it most pleased him,where he knew his hearth-band most loyal."

Which of these lands did NOT have a Norse settlement (as far as we know)?

According to a saga based on his life, he killed his first person at the age of seven - another boy who cheated him during a game. Who was he?

These carvings, which were made by the Norse, are known as?

"In this year, terrifying omens appeared over Northumbria, and the people were wretchedly afraid. There were huge flashes of lightning and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed these signs, and shortly after that, on the sixth day before the Ides of January of the same year, the miserable raiding of the heathens..." - what is being described?

Which Viking leader was made Duke of Normandy by King Charles the Simple?

Who wrote this: "When these have grown up, they clamor fiercely against their fathers and their grandfathers, or more frequently against each other, for shares of property; and, as they are over-many, and the land they inhabit is not large enough for them to live, there is a very old custom by which a multitude of youths is selected by lot and expelled into the realms of other nations, to win kingdoms for themselves by fighting, where they can live in uninterrupted peace."

Who are the Varangians?