The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

despite the very long process of producing this volume, and thirdly the publisher, Routledge, for their understanding position c ...

ABBREVIATIONS AM Arnamagnæan manuscript collection (see http://arnamagnaeansk.ku.dk/ and http://www.arnastofnun.is/)) Ar Arabic ...

OSw Old Swedish Raä Riksantikvarieämbetet/Central Board of National Antiquities, Stockholm RGA Reallexikon der germanischen Alte ...

Map of the Viking world. ...

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INTRODUCTION Stefan Brink T he approach used in this book combines two interactive levels of contributions: longer articles prov ...

combat, the detail of the weaponry, and fortifications, discussed by Gareth Williams and Anne Pedersen. A lot of attention has f ...

The Viking activities on the Continent are presented by Johan Callmer, discussing encounters between the Viking world and the Fr ...

WHO WERE THE VIKINGS? Stefan Brink T he Viking Age was the period when the Scandinavians made themselves known, or rather notori ...

present the history which is the most relevant to the political will and struggle, to sanction the politics you pursue. The use ...

foreigners’. In the east, Swedes could be called rus’ or varjag (ON væringi, væringr). It is in England during the ninth century ...

Russia could be called Rus’ or Væringar. The word Rus’ is most certainly to be connected to the name of the province Roslagen, t ...

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PART I VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA ...

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People, society and social institutions CHAPTER ONE SCANDINAVIA BEFORE THE VIKING AGE Lotte Hedeager W hat is known as the Middl ...

literature, new directions in research into the history of religion, and place-name studies. Among the most important sites in t ...

contacts existed between the noble families of southern Scandinavia and those of western Europe during these centuries. The Scan ...

GOLD AND GIFT-GIVING The written sources, whether Old Norse or from early medieval Europe, give the impression of gift-giving as ...

The gold hoards were deposited in a period of great social stress, and gold played a special role as mediator in resource-consum ...