The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

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THE VIKING WORLD Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a ...

THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS THE BABYLONIAN WORLD Edited by Gwendolyn Leick THE EGYPTIAN WORLD Edited by Toby Wilkinson THE ISLAMIC WORL ...

THE VIKING WORLD Edited by Stefan Brink in collaboration with Neil Price ...

First published 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4 RN Simultaneously published in the USA and ...

CONTENTS List of illustrations xi List of contributors xv Preface xix Stefan Brink and Neil Price Abbreviations xxi Introduction ...

7 Farm and village in the Viking Age 67 Jan-Henrik Fallgren ( 1 ) Manor, cult and market at Lake Tissø 77 Lars Jørgensen 8 The d ...

Pre-Christian religion and belief 16 The religion of the Vikings 212 Anders Hultgård ( 1 ) The Old Norse gods 219 Jens Peter Sch ...

PART II: THE VIKING EXPANSION The British Isles 25 Vikings in England 341 Clare Downham 26 Vikings in Insular chronicling 350 Da ...

Russia and the east 37 The Viking Rus and Byzantium 496 Jonathan Shepard 38 The Vikings in the east 517 Fjodor Androshchuk 39 Th ...

( 1 ) Cnut the Great and his empire 665 Niels Lund 49 The emergence of Sweden 668 Thomas Lindkvist Index 675 x –– Contents–– ...

ILLUSTRATIONS ...

1 A reconstruction of the vo ̨lva þórbjo xii ...

xiii 3 1 A schematic picture of Sámi culture Map of the Viking world xxiii 6 1 The settlement district of Markim-Orkesta in Upp ...

3 Runestone U 661 , Håtuna parish, Uppland 635 1 The Eskilstuna sarcophagus 641 1 Map of Viking Age Denmark 653 2 Aerial ph ...

CONTRIBUTORS Björn Ambrosiani, Fil. Dr (Ups.), Professor of Archaeology, The National Heritage Board/The Birka Project, Stockhol ...

Clare Downham, PhD (Cantab.), Lecturer in Celtic, School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. David N. ...

Annika Larsson, Fil. Dr (Ups.), Researcher, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Thomas Lindkvist, Fil. Dr (Up ...

Dagfinn Skre, Dr Phil. (Oslo), Professor of Archaeology, Institute for Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies, Directo ...

PREFACE Stefan Brink and Neil Price W hy do we need a new book on the Vikings? It is true that syntheses of the period appear wi ...