The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

of both the Pictish kingdom and the kingdom of Dál Riata and to the emergence of a new kingdom of the Scots. Territorial conques ...

following Alfred’s victory at Edington in 878 , the various Viking forces seem to have done their best to avoid being brought to ...

(Clapham 1910 ; Davis 1989 ; Williams forthcoming: ch. 6 ). Horses provided a similar mobility on land to that provided by the s ...

defend the coastline, and introduced a network of fortified towns across Wessex (Abels 1997 ; Peddie 1999 ; Williams forthcoming ...

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN VIKING WEAPONRY Anne Pedersen N umerous sources offer information on Viking weaponry. The annals and chronicles ...

Carolingian sword recovered from the boat-chamber grave excavated at Hedeby in northern Germany (Müller-Wille 1976 ; Wamers 1994 ...

speculation. Are they true weapons or rather part of the assemblage of tools and kitchen utensils used by the mistress of a hous ...

arrowheads in several graves suggest that whole bundles were deposited in a quiver made of leather or wood. Scandinavian arrowhe ...

wealthy, although scenes in the Bayeux tapestry indicate that mail shirts in later times were no longer so unattainable. WEAPONS ...

Occasional swords and not least spearheads have been recovered in similar circumstances suggestive of ritual deposition elsewher ...

Kempke, T. ( 1988 ) ‘Zur überregionalen Verbreitung der Pfeilspitzentypen des 8 .– 12. Jahrhunders aus Starigard/Oldenburg’, Ber ...

Strömberg, M. ( 1951 ) ‘Schwertortbänder mit Vogelmotiven aus der Wikingerzeit’, Meddelanden från Lunds Universitets Historiska ...

Pre-Christian religion and belief CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE RELIGION OF THE VIKINGS Anders Hultgård W hat will be outlined here are th ...

at a particular place and about the character of the cult place (grove, hill, hall, etc.). Iconographic evidence from runestones ...

culture. Myths have several contexts, they may accompany rituals or be re-enacted in a dramatic form, but they may also be told ...

fashioned from his flesh, the sky from his skull, the sea from his blood. Other parts of the body were used to shape further ele ...