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

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

http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/index.shtml

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

http://www.suttonhoo.org/

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

http://www.britannia.com/history/saxontime.html

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

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/origins.htm

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

http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2002/06/daily-06-08-2002.shtml

7. Where did Alfred the Great defeat the Danes?

http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon6.html

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/walk/games_index.shtml

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/vikings/activities/index.shtml

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

http://www.great-britain.co.uk/history/ang-sax.htm

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.