The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

boundary as running along Watling Street to Chester, although the treaty does not specify this. While the treaty has often been ...

2000 : 72 – 7 ; Holman 2001 : 3 ). Indeed, the Danishness of northern and eastern England was but rarely documented, typically d ...

Davis, R.H.C. ( 1982 ) ‘Alfred and Guthrum’s frontier’, English Historical Review, 97 : 803 – 10. Dumville, D.H. ( 1992 ) Wessex ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ( 2 ) YORK Richard Hall A series of documentary references, written in the mid-ninth to mid-eleventh centur ...

new, Anglo-Scandinavian, culture. Military force and diplomacy were employed to fend off the expansionist ambitions of successiv ...

became less of a barrier, and may have been actively dismantled. They were perhaps replaced by an extension of the other two sid ...

century on the line of the street Walmgate. It is not certain that this part of Jorvik was defended, although a hypothetical bri ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY The Archaeology of York series includes many volumes on York’s topography, buildings, artefacts, coins, environment ...

Phillips, D. and Heywood, B. ( 1995 ) Excavations at York Minster, vol. 1 : From Roman Fortress to Norman Cathedral, ed. M.O.H. ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ( 3 ) THE ISLE OF MAN David M. Wilson I n the early tenth century the name of the Island is inscribed in Ol ...

spur-mounts), or are of indeterminate origin (three knives, a hone, a flint strike-a-light, belt buckle and strap-end, and the i ...

The grave-goods suggest that the first Viking settlers arrived in the last quarter of the ninth century, possibly from north-wes ...

The comparatively rich Manx burial material suggests that the strategic potential of the Island had early been recognised: Danis ...

Other than the graves, physical evidence of Norse settlement is exiguous. Geomor- phological and palynological studies of the la ...

economic unit. The Braaid, while not strictly an upland site, is situated on the edge of what must have been marginal land, clos ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT SCANDINAVIAN PLACE NAMES IN THE BRITISH ISLES Gillian Fellows-Jensen S candinavian place names are found in ...

acquire personal names as their first element, most frequently names of Danish origin (here in ON spelling) such as Eymundr in A ...

contain the same type of common nouns as those occurring in the names ending in -bý, for example brunnr ‘spring’ in Bonthorpe an ...

Men whose personal names in the north-west are of later date are those whose personal names were of Norman or Flemish origin but ...

elements that are not personal names. There are, for example, two Busbys and two Busbies, which would all seem to be of the same ...