Viking Grave Stone Findings

Viking Grave Stone Findings:

Assigned: 12/14/10, Due: 01/07/11

Answer the following neatly on lined paper/type your responses neatly, in blue/black ink,  and in complete sentences giving as much detail as you can find from the words on the grave stone. Write your answers in your own words do not just recopy the text. Set up any all short quotes correctly in your answers.

1.              Who was the dead man/woman?

2.           What was their social and political ranking in their society?

3.           What job/occupation did they have?

4.           Who were their friends?

5.           Who were their enemies?

6.          What were (describe) the circumstances of their death? Give as much detail as possible from the text.

7.           Who was responsible for this person’s death?

8.           Name four/4 instances of alliteration that appears on the stone.

9.           What were their religious beliefs? Back your theory with material from the text of the stone.

10.    Where was this person from?

11.        Where did they die?

12.    If this person had live today and was from the U. S., what job might he/she have had?

13.    Using the information you have provided above, write a short but detailed news story that covers the people, event, and setting of this “story”.