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What was the name of the Viking burial ship excavated near Sandefjord, Norway, in 1880?
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Gokstad ship
What was the elite Byzantine military unit that recruited many Scandinavian and Rus warriors?
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Varangian Guard
What was the name of the Viking-era assembly founded in Iceland in AD 930?
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Alþingi
What year is traditionally used to mark the beginning of the Viking Age, after the raid on Lindisfarne?
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793
What was the name of the Viking-era marketplace near modern Schleswig, Germany?
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Hedeby
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Which Old Norse literary form celebrated heroes and gods in alliterative verse?
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Eddaic poetry
Which Viking king ruled England, Denmark and Norway as part of a North Sea empire?
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Cnut the Great
What was the name of the Viking settlement in Newfoundland excavated at L’Anse aux Meadows?
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L’Anse aux Meadows
What is the name of the Viking rune alphabet with 16 characters used in Scandinavia?
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Younger Futhark