Vikings Final practices2024 remarks
1. Clinker Built - Correct answer -Ships that were built with overlapping planks of
wood to give them strength against the Atlantic waves
2. -made in longships, which were long, narrow, and flat
3. -fast and durable, capable of navigating choppy seas and shallow rivers and
could be carried onto land
4. -flexible for mobility
5. Lindisfarne - Correct answer -the most important Celtic monastery of Britain
sacked by Vikings in 793, marked the beginning of the Viking Age as it was the
first raid in the British Isles
6. -off the coast of Northumberland
7. -it was a preeminent center of Christianity
8. -England was christianized in 600
9. -dropped effect on peasantry because monastery involved in mercantilism, and
monks were in welfare, edu, etc
10.-had fiefs and serfs, wergild and Danegeld
11.Anglo Saxon Chronicle Description kind of sounds like the end of the world in
Revelation: Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria,
and woefully terrified the people: these were amazing sheets of lightning and
whirlwinds, and fiery dragons -- robbery and slaughter
12.Asser - Correct answer -Alfred's biographer (the Life of King Alfred) -- there was
only one remaining manuscript, problematic
13.-died around 909
14.-Welsh monk from Dyfed who became the Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s
15.-probably written for a Welsh audience
16.-does not record events after 893
17.-Celtic bishop from Wales who tried to explain Alfred's overlordship over Saxons,
Walsh, English. Distinguished from his brothers with PROPAGANDA (not fully
accurate)
18.-made Alfred look superior to Charlemagne in every way (monasteries, trips,
battles, languages, capability) -- first literate king
19.-elevating Alfred's military leadership
20.Burhs - Correct answer -Fortified market-towns constructed by Alfred the Great
to protect against further Viking invasions
21.-centers of trade, mercantile elite, royal towns that could not replace the
population
22.-Anglo-Saxon enclosure, 33 built
