Unit 14 - Ireland: Raiding and Settling
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Who were the dark heathens?
- Vikings from Scotland
- Vikings from Francia
- Norwegians
- Danes
- Swedes
What was a longphort?
- a D-shaped enclosure built by Vikings
- a naval base
- an Irish hillfort
- an early Viking fortified settlement in Ireland
- a rectangular camp
What has been revealed over the last two hundred years in the Kilmainham - Islandbridge area of Dublin?
- a Viking settlement
- a longphort
- two pagan cemeteries
- a timber quay
- Viking ships
What change in Viking tactics is shown by the construction of longphorts?
- they now settled in Ireland
- they had somewhere to put their ships
- raiding and other activities could be more organised
- they became more aggressive
- increased use of fleets
When were the Viking warbands expelled from Ireland?
- 880
- 914
- 920
- 902
- 905