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Question 1: Some of them are very laconic and only tell that the Viking was buried in London, or in ________.
WellsTauntonBath, SomersetBath and North East Somerset

Question 2: It appears from the imagery of the Swedish runestones that the most popular Norse legend in the area was that of ________ the dragon slayer.
Gram (mythology)ReginSigurdGrani

Question 3: Most runestones are located in ________, but there are also scattered runestones in locations that were visited by Norsemen during the Viking Age.
Nordic countriesScandinaviaDenmark–NorwaySweden

Question 4: ________ and moss also cause the rock to become porous and crumble.
PlantWild fisheriesPhotosynthesisAlgae

Question 5: The tradition of raising stones that had runic inscriptions first appeared in the 4th and 5th century in ________ and Sweden, and these early runestones were usually placed next to graves.
NorwayGermanyUnited StatesPoland

Question 6: Scholars have suggested that the reason why so many Christian runestones were raised in Uppland is that the district was the focal point in the conflict between ________ and the newly Christianized King of Sweden.
Norse mythologyNorse pagan worshipNorse paganismGermanic paganism

Question 7: [60] Moreoever, in Hávamál, ________ says: "So do I write / and color the runes"[59][6] and in Guðrúnarkviða II, Gudrun says "In the cup were runes of every kind / Written and reddened, I could not read them".
ThorOdinNorse mythologySleipnir

Question 8: This beast is probably ________, the brother of the Midgard Serpent, and who is attacking Odin.
FreyjaFenrirLokiRagnarök

Question 9: [2][3] The earliest Danish runestones appeared in the 6th and 7th centuries,[3] and there are about 50 runestones from the ________ in Scandinavia.
Germanic peoplesMigration periodByzantine EmpireEarly Middle Ages

Question 10: The stone may be an illustration of the giantess Hyrrokin ("fire-wrinkled") who was summoned by the gods to help launch ________'s funeral ship Hringhorni which was too heavy for them.
HöðrFriggThorBaldr
















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