The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

in Viking Age shipbuilding and perhaps a testimony that longships of this size started to reach the borders of what the shipwrig ...

mid-ninth century (Vita Anskarii ch. 24 ; Fenwick 1978 ). The at that time pirate- infested Baltic may well also have made it ne ...

NAVIGATION From Hernar in Norway one should keep sailing west to reach Hvarf in Greenland and then you are sailing north of Shet ...

beyond the horizon. Changes in the colour and taste of the water may tell when the currents changed. The sun, the moon, the star ...

——( 2000 ) ‘Roskildeskibene’, in T. Christensen and M. Andersen (eds) Civitas Roscald – fra byens begyndelse, Roskilde: Roskilde ...

CHAPTER TWELVE VIKING AGE TEXTILES Annika Larsson T extiles are perishable commodities and are not preserved over long periods u ...

Russian Primary Chronicle, there is a description of this textile trade and the peace treaties drawn up between the Greeks and t ...

and helmet, with a cloak over his shoulders fastened with a beautiful brooch on his chest. We see similar figures on the Bayeux ...

a certain effect through the use of woven bands. Grey and brown wool, less impressive, was used for more everyday purposes, for ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Christensen, A.E., Ingstad, A.I. and Myhre, B. ( 1994 ) Osebergdronningens grav. Vår arkeologiske nasjonalskatt i n ...

CHAPTER THIRTEEN HANDICRAFTS John Ljungkvist A round the middle of the eighth century the Scandinavians became involved in incre ...

THE CRAFTSPEOPLE In Viking Age society it is difficult to recognise when a craft became so complicated, economically important o ...

group of specialists that hardly existed for more than 100 years as the runestones ceased to be raised around ad 1100. Wood was ...

The manufacture of iron and smithing took place in many areas, such as in the northern parts of Sweden and eastern Norway; it wa ...

The manufacture of melted glass was probably not a skill that Scandinavian craftspeople were capable of, nor was the making of g ...

objects probably for the magnate and the people around him. Other craftspeople pro- duced larger amounts of objects at the tradi ...

Groenman-van Waateringe, W. ( 1984 ) ‘Die Lederfunde von Haithabu’, in Das archäologische Fundmaterial der Ausgrabung Haithabu ( ...

Warfare and weaponry CHAPTER FOURTEEN RAIDING AND WARFARE Gareth Williams R aiding and warfare are central to our understanding ...

as in the formation of new Viking kingdoms and earldoms in Britain, Ireland and Normandy, or at home, where successful Viking le ...

local groups under their own leaders. The raiders at Portland apparently came from Hordaland in western Norway, while Frankish s ...