The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Coins also furnished the most important raw material for silver jewellery. Silver coins were frequently used as coins, and were ...

swords intended for use. Finnish finds have produced a large number of swords, close to 330 examples, all identified as to type. ...

Due to its favourable location both from a regional and a trans-Baltic viewpoint, Birka came to play a central role in the Balti ...

found in graves also represent common types, it is difficult to say with certainty whether a Viking buried somewhere along the E ...

properties. Archaeological finds contain, among other things, bone skates made from the long bones of moose, horses or oxen. Ski ...

increase and an expansion of settlement, which in turn produced an increase in the number of cemeteries, but it did not result i ...

inhabited Iron Age villages. Besides the bow and arrow, hunters used various kinds of traps, pitfalls and snares as well as othe ...

Granberg, B. ( 1966 ) Förteckning över kufiska myntfynd i Finland (Studia Orientalia 34 ), Helsinki: Societas Orientalis Fennica ...

Sarvas, P. ( 1966 ) ‘Kaiser und Jungfrau Maria. Barbarische Darstellungen auf einigen in Finnland gefundenen Nachahmungen byzant ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX THE VIKINGS AND THE EASTERN BALTIC Heiki Valk VIKING TRADE AND VIKING SILVER The waterways I n the Viking Age ...

Figure 36. 1 Map of the eastern Baltic in the Viking Age: ( 1 ) main branch of the ‘Austrvegr’, ( 2 ) major local waterways, ( 3 ...

Figure 36. 2 Viking Age coin hoards from the eastern Baltic: ( 1 ) hoards with Arabic coins, ( 2 ) hoards with Arabic and west E ...

in the 850 s– 60 s and in Estonia in the first quarter of the tenth century (Berga 1988 : 27 – 9 ; Leimus 2004 ). From Estonia t ...

Semgals (Radin ̧sˇ and Zemı ̄tis 1992 ; Radin ̧sˇ, 2001 ; Zemı ̄tis 2007 ). The hill fort, which controlled the waterway, emerge ...

dissimilarities are expressed for example in language, religion, art, fashion and building traditions. The relations of the Scan ...

Scandinavian burials) (Zarin ̧a, 2006 ; 318 , 425 ). Only in and around Grobin ̧a numer- ous grave mounds speak of a large colon ...

(Mickevicˇius 1997 : 196 – 8 ). Denmark was more oriented to Prussia and south Curonia, mainly in coastal areas. The interests o ...

Although the sagas repeatedly mention the Scandinavian kings subordinating different areas and peoples in the eastern Baltic, th ...

ihre Beziehungen zu skandinavischen Ländern’, in A. Loit, E. Mugurevics and A. Caune (eds) Die Kontakte zwischen Ostseeraum und ...

Nerman, B. ( 1929 ) Die Verbindungen zwischen Skandinavien und dem Ostbaltikum in der jüngere Eisenzeit (KVHAAs Handlingar 40 : ...