Viking Invasion -Y5

From about 800 CE, 400 years after the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain, the country was under attack from tribes from ________________

• Denmark, Norway and Sweden

• Denmark, Netherlands and Scotland

• Norway, Sweden and Danelaw

• Spain, Portugal and Indies

Vikings were sometimes called Norsemen meaning _____________

• men from the North

• men from the South

• men from the East

• men from the West

The first recorded Viking attack on Britain was in 789 CE.

• True

• False

Vikings stole treasures such as:

• gold, jewels and books

• gold, toys and dolls

• cattle, silver and balloon

• silver, metal and brooch

The Vikings could use their long, flat, narrow boats in both deep and shallow water.

• True

• False

There were many battles between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.

• True

• False

IN 874 CE, only the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of ________ was not controlled by the Vikings.

• Wessex

• Mercia

• East Anglia

• Nortrumbia

The area that the Vikings controlled at the east of Britain was called ___________

• Scotland

• Danelaw

• Ireland

• Netherlands