Vikings

4. each of Odin's twelve handmaidens who conducted the slain warriors of their choice from the battlefield to Valhalla.
5. the supreme god and creator in Norse mythology.
6. hall of the fallen.
8. the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
9. long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic.
11. a native or inhabitant of Normandy: a : one of the Scandinavian conquerors of Normandy in the 10th century. b : one of the Norman-French conquerors of England in 1066.
12. the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.

1. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
2. a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle.
3. the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark.
7. a large boat that may be launched from a sailing ship.
10. the Norse god of thunder, weather, and crops.