The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

islet. Ships’ rivets were recovered from the gravel of the Pool along with a bearded axe. What Simpson took to be evidence for a ...

Dunrally fort survives as a 360 m × 150 m area enclosed by a large D-shaped rampart with an outer ditch, 5. 3 m wide and 1. 8 m ...

burial at Finglas near Dublin are added, the growing rush of evidence for the complicated and seemingly varied physical nature o ...

Continental Europe and the Mediterranean CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE SCANDINAVIA AND THE CONTINENT IN THE VIKING AGE Johan Callmer D ur ...

in mutual connection with each other but their chronological phases and their factual content are different. Saxony only becomes ...

Scandinavian waters. That Frisians were exclusively acquainted with ships intended for the shallow waters inside the chain of of ...

Sea coast and south-western Denmark remains significant through the centuries. It seems reasonable that earlier activities conti ...

the Merovingian and Carolingian state has been rather neglected, as already hinted at above. It has been understood as German in ...

aristocratic hunting culture with mounted hunters, beaters and packs of dogs spread to the Merovingian and Carolingian periphery ...

of these innovations must be dated to the Carolingian period. The fact that Scandinavians came into direct contact with the Caro ...

SAXONY When the central Carolingian territory treated above began to disintegrate politically after the Treaty of Verdun in 843 ...

to play an important role in treasure finds and stray-finds collections already at the end of the tenth century. This German sil ...

Carolingian region, we can note an important innovation in house-building technique comprising large parts of southern Scandinav ...

they spoke a language with little resemblance to that of the Scandinavians. It is however not to be excluded that mixing with th ...

maintenance were carved out. The kings also needed loyal warriors. A considerable part of this personnel (and we are here talkin ...

Arbman, H. ( 1937 ) Schweden und das karolingische Reich. Studien zu den Handelsverbindungen des 9. Jahrhunderts (KVHAAs Handlin ...

Skibsted-Klæsøe, L. ( 1998 ) ‘Plant ornament: a key to a new chronology of the Viking Age’, Lund Archaeological Review, 3 : 73 – ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ( 1 ) THE DUCHY OF NORMANDY Jean Renaud THE TREATY OF SAINT-CLAIR B y the turn of the tenth century, the Vi ...

territory already more or less under Danish control, demanding that the Vikings should defend it, thus protecting the realm from ...

born, first as a county, but Rollo’s great-grandson (Richard II) already called himself a duke, so one often refers to Normandy ...