The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Provinz und Peripherie. Beiträge zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Trillmich, W. (ed.) ( 2000 ) ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT THE VIKINGS IN THE EAST Fjodor Androshchuk T he number of Scandinavian artefacts from the Viking Age found ...

region, former eastern Prussia) (Figure 38. 2 ). It was supposed that in the Vendel period, Scandinavians of Grobin ̧a moved to ...

1996 ). In some of the graves typical Scandinavian ritual traits like folded weapons and stone-settings were recorded (Androshch ...

origin were not taken into consideration and the place of the settlement and its character are still uncertain. GEOGRAPHICAL DIS ...

1993 ). During the second part of the ninth century the population of Zemljanoe gorodishche were still living in the same two ty ...

Most Russian archaeologists have considered Plakun to be the cemetery for the Scandinavian fraction of the Ladoga population (Bu ...

and Velikaya. During the tenth century the settlement area expanded and consisted of a fort, a trading centre and a cult site. I ...

population in the Oka River area can be seen in the Supruty hoard that contained a richly decorated snaffle-bit, made on Gotland ...

one find marks the movement of Scandinavians along the Don River, a richly decorated silver equal-armed brooch in Borre style fr ...

discovered (Androshchuk 2000 : fig. 1 ). It seems that the topography of Chernigov was very similar to Gnëzdovo. The centre cons ...

Figure 38. 4 Some finds from a hoard found in 1868 in Gnëzdovo (from Gushchin 1936 : tables I–IV). ...

mixture of Birka and Rjurikovo Gorodishche, with a culture that is exposing its origin in Svealand’ (Duczko 2004 : 188 ). A numb ...

lancet-shaped arrowheads (Kolesnikova 1975 ). A scabbard chape decorated in Borre style was also found in the town. Another chap ...

socio-economic processes and class differentiation formed the background of state formation (Klejn 1975 : 3 ; Latvakangas 1995 : ...

From a modern point of view, it seems that the frequency of various types of sword hilts shows clear regional peculiarities. It ...

beginning of the thirteenth century (Sawyer 1982 : 9 , 52 ; 1991 : 62 ; Lindkvist 1988 : 8 , 59 ). Furthermore, nowadays the exi ...

one-tenth of their profits, to the authority. Three main centres are distinguished by the source: Ku ̄ya ̄ba, which is the king’ ...

amphora came to Gnëzdovo from the area of Bulgaria on the Danube (Arne 1952 : 342 ; Nefedov 2001 : 66 ). Thus this is not adequa ...

name of Simon’s son Georgy who lived with his descendants in Suzdal’ and made a generous donation for the Cave Monastery in Kiev ...