Chapter 5 The Invasion of the Vikings and Old Norse

After the Anglo Saxons were finally settled in England, they were invaded by people from northern Europe called Norsemen, more popularly called the ____________________.
Extra fierce Vikings who went insanely wild in battle were known as _______________________.
King Alfred didn't expect to become king because he had three older _________________________. He was instead focused on ____________________________________________.
King Alfred commissioned a history of England to be written called the _________________________________________________. It wasn't the very first history of England, but It was the very first history of England that was written in the _____________________ language.
The Danish Vikings were finally defeated and forced to sign a treaty. Their territory in England was limited to a northern area of England which was known as the __________________________.
For a while England, Denmark, Norway and part of Sweden were under the rule of a Danish king named King __________________.
What is a good clue that a word comes from the Old Norse? ___________________
Circle the word in each pair that is derived from the Old Norse: skin and hide; sick and ill; raise and rear.
Old Norse had a deeper influence on English than Latin. We know this because the ________________________ of English was affected by Old Norse, not just the vocabulary.
English is no longer primarily an inflected language as it once was. Now it is considered an analytical language because the most important thing for understanding the meaning of a sentence in English today is _________________________________.

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