The answers to these questions about the Saxons and the Vikings may be found by clicking on the link below each one. You could write the answers down when you find them or you could try a spot of multi-tasking by clicking here and typing in the answers (or copying and pasting) as you find them. Good luck!

  1. When did the Anglo-Saxons come to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/anglosaxons/invasion/index.shtml

  1. Which Anglo-Saxon gods give their names to days of the week?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/index.shtml

  1. Take the "interactive tour" of Sutton Hoo. What was found in Mound 1?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.suttonhoo.org/

  1. In which year did Roman Christianity come to Britain? Who brought it?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.britannia.com/history/saxontime.html

  1. Who were the Vikings? Where did they come from?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/origins.htm

  1.  In which year did the Vikings attack the monastary at Lindisfarne?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2002/06/daily-06-08-2002.shtml

  1. Where did Alfred the Great defeat the Danes?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon6.html

  1. Visit the Viking house. Which five things should not be there?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/walk/games_index.shtml

  1. Complete the "Thorkel and the trading ship" activity. Name the 5 gifts Thorkel has to collect.

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/vikings/activities/index.shtml

  1. The Saxon period ended in 1066. Three kings sat on the throne that year. Who were they?

linkicon.gif (956 bytes) http://www.great-britain.co.uk/history/ang-sax.htm

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Now all that hard is done why not play the Anglo-Saxon Coins Game for a bit of fun AND to learn a lot at the same time.