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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 Thorbjorg do for Gudrid?

2. Who is Einar?

3. What does Leif find in Vinland?

4. What does Gudrid do for Thorbjorg?

5. What does this speaker ask of Bjarni?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between Thorbjorn and Orm? How does it change with events?

2. What does the corpse of Thorstein Eriksson say about the dead? What do the people do after hearing it?

3. How do the two native boys describe the land that is across from their own land? Where might this be?

4. Explain why the small boat on Bjarni's ship would not sink while the large one was about to.

5. How and why does Einar pursue Gudrid in marriage?

6. Explain the interchange between Bjarni and the young Icelander. What are the circumstances and what is the result?

7. What happens when a native finds an axe near one of the fallen Vikings?

8. When food runs scarce, Thorhall disappears for three days. How and where do Karlsefni and Bjarni find him? What does he say he was doing?

9. What happens with the whale? Why do people refuse to eat it?

10. What does Eirik the Red do upon departing for Vinland that he suspects causes him to fall off his horse? What does he do to resolve it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Newfoundland is quite possibly the site of the Viking Vinland. Write an essay about Newfoundland.

Part 1. Where is Newfoundland? What are the land and geography like?

Part 2. Who lived in Newfoundland during the time of the Vikings? What were they like?

Part 3. How does the information about Newfoundland mesh with the accounts from the Vinland sagas? Give examples to support your statement.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about Norway

Part 1. Describe the location and geography of Norway.

Part 2. What is Norway currently like? Describe what it is today.

Part 3. Describe Norway during the Viking era. Who were some prominent people of the time and what did they do?

Part 4. What remnants of the Vikings still exist in Norway?

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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