Viking Leaders

Question 1

Ubbe

Answer 1

. Part of great heathen army
. Dies 878
. Conquered Northumbria

Question 2

Guthrum

Answer 2

. Was part of the the combined great summer army
. Was baptised by Alfred
. Dies 890 of natural causes

Question 3

Raegnald

Answer 3

. Faced Edward - from Norway = new level of threat
. Irish-Norse

Question 4

Guthfrith

Answer 4

. Faced Aethelstan
. Sihtric’s brother
. Takes Aethelstan’s sister hostage in 927
. Hiberno-Norse

Question 5

Sihtric

Answer 5

. King of York
. Marries Aethelstan’s sister in 926
. Dies of sickness in 926
. Friendly with Saxons

Question 6

Olaf Guthfrisson

Answer 6

. Faced Aethelstan and Edmund
. Driven out by 937 by Aethelstan
. Back in 939 after his death
. 942= watling street treaty

Question 7

Olaf Sihtricsson

Answer 7

. Faces Eadred
. Deosnt want to fight
. Killed by Eric Bloodaxe

Question 8

Hakon

Answer 8

. Harold’s son
. Fostered by Aethelstan with Edmund and Eadred
. Treaty stopped a blood feud after Eric Bloodaxe’s death

Question 9

Eric Bloodaxe

Answer 9

. Hakon’s half brother
. Last Viking warlord
. Killed in 954

Question 10

Sweyn

Answer 10

. Fights Aethelred II
. Cnut father
. King of Denmark
. Trying an actual invasion under a Christian Viking King (2nd Viking age)

Question 11

Thorkell the tall

Answer 11

. Switches sides a lot
. Great grandson of Harold
. Joins Cnut permanently in 1014

Question 12

Cnut

Answer 12

. Sweyn’s 2nd son
. Forces Aethelred out of England
. After 1016 he is King of England