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Lesson 1: Assignment

Reply to the following questions with short answers.

The following quotation is from a ninth-century prayer:

‘From the terror of the Norsemen, good Lord deliver us.’

a) Who was England inhabited by at the time of the prayer?

b) Who were the Norsemen and what two other names are they called by?

c) Who defeated the Norsemen in the 9th century?

d) Who expelled them from England completely and when was that achieved?

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