The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Yet we have no details about the military structures under the first dukes. Did Rollo have his own hirð ‘bodyguard’? Possibly, b ...

The new Norman aristocracy gradually departed from the Norse (Bates 1982 : 15 – 38 ). William Longsword’s murder in 942 was a th ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ( 2 ) THE VIKING CONQUEST OF BRITTANY Neil Price T hroughout the Viking Age, the small province of Brittany ...

This was to change in the tenth century, when after decades of peace Brittany was subjected to a repeated pattern of intense rai ...

most elaborate pre-Christian Scandinavian burial in Continental Europe, as well as the region’s only ship burial. On the Île de ...

Renaud, J. ( 2000 ) Les Vikings en France, Rennes: Éditions Ouest-France. Tarrou, L. ( 2002 ) ‘La sépulture à bateau viking de l ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR THE VIKINGS IN SPAIN, NORTH AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Neil Price L ike the Carolingian kingdoms, the Iber ...

Viking period and would see a gradual shift in the focus of Islamic interests from the Mediterranean and the west to the more lu ...

20 August with little or no defence being mounted, and for a short time the fleet harried the area immediately west of the Strai ...

nature of the sources, which describe a complex attempt made by the king of the majus to humiliate the Arab ambassador, perhaps ...

Mazimma in the small Moroccan state of Nekor was sacked, and occupied for eight days according to al-Bakri. Two of the royal wom ...

of ninth-century al-Andalus should not be underestimated. Potentially at least, from the 850 s onwards the Umayyads could well h ...

Ulfr. The last recorded raids occurred during the period 1047 – 66 when Cresconio, the bishop of Santiago de Compostela, fought ...

——( 2004 ) ‘En stor ø i oceanet’, in [no editor] Vikingerne på Den Iberiske Halvø, Madrid: Dronning Isabella Fonden. Hill, D. ( ...

The Baltic CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE THE VIKING AGE IN FINLAND Torsten Edgren THE SETTLEMENT D uring the Viking Age (ad 800 – 1050 ) t ...

such as bronze bars and scrap metal for casting, raw-glass, glass and mosaic beads, small whetstones, amber and small pieces of ...

The Åland archipelago, Finland’s westernmost province, received a strong influx of immigrants from central Sweden in the sixth c ...

remained in use until c. ad 1000. Mixed stone/earth cairns also appear in Häme until the end of the pagan period. Level-ground c ...

washed over the Nordic countries, became common in south-western Finland. The coins, like chopped silver and silver scraps, were ...

Figure 35. 2 Ornaments from grave no. 16 , Tuukkala cemetery in Mikkeli, Savo. Characteristic of women’s dress in eastern Finlan ...