The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

tenth or eleventh century. Other Manx býs, however, are today identical in form and pronunciation with their parallels in Englan ...

More frequently occurring habitative names are those discussed by Nicolaisen ( 2001 : 112 – 22 ) ending in -staðir, -setr and -s ...

soil’) and Cyderhall (Sigvarth-haugr ‘Sigurd’s howe’) in Sutherland, Durness (dýr-nes ‘deer headland’) and Sangomore (sand-gjá ‘ ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Barnes, M.P. ( 1998 ) The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetland, Lerwick: The Shetland Times. Crawford, B.E. (ed.) ( ...

——( 2004 ) ‘How old are the Scandinavian place-names in Man?’, Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian So ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE VIKINGS IN WALES Mark Redknap T he geographical position of north Wales and its close sea-borne connecti ...

Annals of Ulster, s.a. 855 ; Chron. Scot. s.a. 856 ). In the light of the Dubliners’ interest in north Wales and the assertion b ...

invasion of Wales. From the late tenth century, Scandinavian presence appears to have grown in the Severn Estuary, with Bristol ...

along the sea route to Bristol, and reflect Norse domination of the seaways and their movements around the coast. This first gro ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE Archaeological evidence of Scandinavian activity has been limited: Viking graves, occasional finds, some ...

coin hoards, appear to demonstrate the developing role of monasteries as market centres during the tenth century (Sheehan 1998 : ...

Anglesey, which they raided in 971 (ravaging Penmon), 980 and 987 when, according to the annals, Guðröð seized as many as 2 , 00 ...

Anglesey and mainland Gwynedd for a period (such as Óláfr in the early eleventh century). The Red Wharf Bay armlets (Figure 29. ...

——( 1999 ) ‘Viking-influenced sculpture in north Wales: its ornament and context’, Church Archaeology, 3 : 5 – 16. Evans, D.S. ( ...

Pierce, G.O. ( 1984 ) ‘The evidence of place-names’, Appendix II in G. Williams (ed.) Glamorgan County History, vol. 2 , Cardiff ...

CHAPTER THIRTY THE NORSE IN SCOTLAND James H. Barrett T he long-term Scandinavian influence on what is now Scotland was consider ...

and politics. Historia Norwegie provides the classic and much cited example (Ekrem and Boje Mortensen 2003 : 65 – 7 ): the Pents ...

discussed below, but to introduce the problem it is worth reviewing why it is that such different interpretations can be founded ...

Figure 30. 1 Map showing principal sites mentioned in the text. –– James H. Barrett–– ...

(i.e. post-Viking Age) longhouse architecture of North Atlantic type associated with portable material culture imported from Nor ...