The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

the west – and in the expansion of Alba (united Dál Riata and Pictland) to the east (Etchingham 2001 ; Woolf 2004 ). Moving back ...

are otherwise characteristic of the wider Viking world (cf. Graham-Campbell 1995 ; Hårdh 1996 ). The burial rite has its closest ...

more complex when one considers the early Viking Age settlements. Several sites have been interpreted as producing a mixture of ...

ascertain which finds are contemporary and which are mixed from earlier or later layers. Finally, radiocarbon and other scientif ...

problem with this hypothesis is straightforward. As noted above, the onomastic evi- dence is mostly very late and thus illuminat ...

zooarchaeologist, Rolf Lie, an explicit methodology was not published along with the identifications (Weber 1992 , 1993 , 1994 ; ...

or early tenth century – which some assume dominated western Scotland and the Isle of Man as well as northern Scotland into the ...

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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE VIKINGS AND IRELAND Donnchadh Ó Corráin T here were contacts between Scandinavia and the British Isles lo ...

Ireland for eight years. This may be the time when a powerful Viking settlement was made in Scotland. Attacks began again in 821 ...

It seemed to some that Ireland was about to be overrun and made subject to the Vikings the view of the Irish émigré sources tha ...

This was a major event. The plunder taken from Scotland was vast. The Dublin kings smashed the power of the Strathclyde Britons ...

with the Irish kings, but the newcomers were victorious. Sitric repossessed Dublin, and Ragnall led his troops back to northern ...

had a governor in the city. Generally, the Irish kings milked the cities for men, fleets and taxes, and it is likely that they e ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS OF SCANDINAVIAN SETTLEMENT IN IRELAND, 840 – 1100 Patri ...

both freestanding and partly revetted fronts for earthen banks – in the later eleventh century. A number of different house type ...