The Viking world

Routledge

2008

xxii, 717 p.

9780415333153

Contents: Preface / Stefan Brink and Neil Price -- Introduction / Stefan Brink -- Who were the Vikings? / Stefan Brink -- Scandinavia before the Viking age / Lotte Hedeager -- Law and society: polities and legal customs in Viking Scandinavia / Stefan Brink -- The Sámi and their interaction with the Nordic peoples / Inger Zachrisson -- Women and sexual politics / Auður G. Magnúsdóttir -- Slavery in the Viking age / Stefan Brink -- Naming the land / Stefan Brink -- Farm and village in the Viking age / Jan-Henrik Fallgren -- Manor, cult and market at Lake Tissø / Lars Jørgensen -- The development of urbanism in Scandinavia / Dagfinn Skre -- Birka / Björn Ambrosiani -- Hedeby: an outline of its research history / Volker Hilberg -- Kaupang- 'Skíringssalr' / Dagfinn Skre -- Lejre and Roskilde / Tom Christensen -- Ribe / Claus Feveile -- 'Ridanæs': a Viking age port of trade at Fröjel, Gotland / Dan Carlsson -- Sebbersund / Jens N. Nielsen -- Sigtuna / Jonas Ros-- Viking age Uppåkra and Lund / Birgitta Hårdh -- Local and long-distance exchange / Søren Michael Singbœk -- Coinage and monetary economies / Svein H. Gullbekk -- Viking ships and the sea / Jan Bill -- Viking age textiles / Annika Larsson -- Handicrafts / John Ljungkvist -- Raiding and warfare / Gareth Williams -- Viking weaponry / Anne Pedersen -- The religion of the Vikings / Anders Hultgård -- The old Norse gods / Jens Peter Schjødt -- Cult leaders, rulers and religion / Olof Sundqvist -- Rulers as offspring of gods and giantesses: on the mythology of pagan Norse rulership / Gro Steinsland -- The creation of old Norse mythology / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Popular religion in the Viking age / Catharina Raudvere -- Sorcery and circumpolar traditions in old Norse belief / Neil Price -- The material culture of Old Norse religion / Anne-Sofie Graslund -- Dying and the dead: Viking age mortuary behaviour / Neil Price-- The Scandinavian languages in the Viking age / Michael P. Barnes -- Runes / Henrik Williams -- Poetry in the Viking age / Judith Jesch -- The performance of the poetic Edda / Terry Gunnell -- The Icelandic sagas / Lars Lönnroth -- Snorri Sturluson: his life and work / Anthony Faulkes -- The sagas of the Icelanders / Guðrún Nordal -- The heroic and legendary sagas / Stephen Mitchell -- The development of Viking art / David M. Wilson -- Vikings in England / Clare Downham -- Vikings in Insular chronicling / David N. Dumville -- Viking settlements in England / Julian D. Richards -- The creation of the Danelaw / Dawn M. Hadley -- York / Richard Hall -- The isle of man / David M. Wilson -- Scandinavian place names in the British Isles / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- The Vikings in Wales / Mark Redknap -- The Norse in Scotland / James H. Barrett -- The Vikings and Ireland / Donnchadh Ó Corráin-- Archaeological evidence for the different expressions of Scandinavian settlement in Ireland, 840-1100 / Patrick F. Wallace -- Scandinavia and the continent in the Viking age / Johan Callmer -- The Duchy of Normandy / Jean Renaud -- The Viking conquest of Brittany / Neil Price -- The Vikings in Spain, North Africa and the Mediterranean / Neil Price -- The Viking age in Finland / Torsten Edgren -- The Vikings and the eastern Baltic / Heiki Valk -- The Viking Rus and Byzantium / Jonathan Shepard -- The Vikings in the east / Fjodor Androshchuk -- The Vikings and Islam / Egil Mikkelsen -- Arabic sources on the Vikings / J.E. Montgomery -- The North Atlantic expansion / Gisli Sigurðsson -- Iceland / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- The Faroe Islands / Símun V. Arge -- The Norse settlements in Greenland / Jette Arneborg -- The North Atlantic farm: an environmental view / Paul Buckland -- The discovery of Vinland / Birgitta Wallace-- Norse and natives in the eastern Arctic / Patricia Sutherland -- Christianisation and the emergence of the early church in Scandinavia / Stefan Brink -- Runestones and the Christian missions / Anne-Sofie Gräslund and Linn Lager -- The material culture of the Christianisation / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- The creation of Norway / Claus Krag -- The emergence of Denmark and the reign of Harald Bluetooth / Else Roesdahl -- Cnut the Great and his empire / Niels Lund -- The emergence of Sweden / Thomas Lindkvist.

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Brink and Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted.

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