The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

men who died on an expedition in the east c. 1041 (Larsson 1986 : 99 discusses these stones in the context of the written source ...

century is overwhelming. It occurs in Denmark on a major piece of church furniture, the twelfth-century Lisbjerg altar, while in ...

Jensen J.S. et al. ( 1992 ) Danmarks middelalderlige skattefund c. 1050 – c. 1550 (Nordiske Fortids- minder. Serie B 12 ), Copen ...

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The British Isles CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE VIKINGS IN ENGLAND Clare Downham V ikings had a profound impact on the history of the Engl ...

The first recorded viking attacks on the Anglo-Saxons took place during the reign of Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons ( 786 – ...

did to devastating effect: Maclean 1998 ). Land in East Anglia was distributed among Guthrum’s followers. A boundary between are ...

Shifts in borders are frequently attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the early tenth century as rulers of Wessex advanced t ...

sympathies for the Northumbrians in the 930 s or 940 s, illustrated in the prophetic poem Armes Prydein Vawr (Williams and Bromw ...

autonomy as a reward for their loyalty, while imposing national legislation in cases of theft (Whitelock 1979 : no. 41 ). The wr ...

Scandinavia. This may have been the cause of piratical attack on south-east England by twenty-five ships in 1048. Haraldr inn Ha ...

Halloran, K. ( 2005 ) ‘The Brunanburh campaign: a reappraisal’, Scottish Historical Review, 84 : 133 – 48. Hudson, B.T. (ed. and ...

Williams, I. and Bromwich, R. (eds and trans.) ( 1972 ) Armes Prydein. The Prophecy of Britain from the Book of Taliesin, Dublin ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX VIKINGS IN INSULAR CHRONICLING David N. Dumville E ach of the different cultural zones of what used to be cal ...

annal, and the annals (some left blank for lack of suitable information) together consti- tute the chronicle. While an individua ...

the momentous events and processes which the Viking Age brought to that complex region (on Skye, see Downham 2000 ). Within Engl ...

foreign information), but it is hard to see in it a political project (despite Kelleher 1963 ). ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ as i ...

been taken to mark a sea-change in those kings’ outlook in the context of Anglo- Scandinavian England under Cnut and his sons ( ...

proper, given the unfortunate common translations of fyrd in particular. But it has to be said that in the original text of ‘The ...