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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tyrkir find?

2. What does Bjarni do when he hears Herjolf has moved to Greenland?

3. How is Leif Eiriksson described?

4. Who gives the prophecy about Gudrid?

5. What does Gudrid see that no one else sees?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the entire affair of Eirik and the bench-boards.

2. Why was Bjarni determined to reach Greenland? What did he do there when he did?

3. What happens to Thorstein and his crew when they set sail for Vinland? Where do they end up spending the winter?

4. Explain who Aud brings to Iceland with her, who they were, and what happened once they arrived in Iceland.

5. Describe the interactions the settlers have with the natives.

6. Describe the circumstances of Bjarni's discovery of new lands to the west.

7. What does Eirik do when he reaches Greenland? How long?

8. Explain what happened to Aud's husband and son.

9. What response does Bjarni receive when he shares his sighting of the new land?

10. What do we know about the emigration from Iceland to Greenland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about many popular misconceptions about Vikings.

Part 1. What is the popular image of a Viking?

Part 2. What parts of the popular image of a Viking are wrong?

Part 3. Provide explanations or evidence that suggests that these popular misconceptions are not historical.

Part 4. What might historical Vikings have been like instead?

Essay Topic 2

How did the Vikings compare as shipbuilders, seamen and explorers to their contemporaries?

Part 1. As explorers and sea voyagers, how did the vikings compare to others of their time?

Part 2. What kind of ships did the Vikings use? What were the advantages and disadvantages of these ships? How were they made?

Part 3. What influence did the Viking ships have on other nautical customs of the time? What legacy have they left behind?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the runic alphabets.

Part 1. When were the runic alphabets used?

Part 2. What different runic alphabets are there? How do they differ from each other?

Part 3. What runic alphabet did the Vikings use? Give particulars of this alphabet.

Part 4. Give an example of how to translate something into runes.

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