The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)
conducted research are an invaluable account of the Rus, second only to Ibn Fadlan’s more famous (and more dramatic) description ...
Ibn Fadlan, though it is not even remotely indebted to Ibn Fadlan’s account: Ibn Fadlan does not make the observation concerning ...
[a] and [b] The Spanish Jew Ibrahim ibn Yaqub al-Turtushi travelled across northern Europe c. 965 – 6. From the quotations of h ...
and al-Andalus and then divided into two groups’; that they are a ‘rabble without leadership’ who inhabit the Atil between the B ...
Chinese, Soghdian and northern Indian (Sindi) scripts. The author mentions that a trustworthy informant had been sent by one of ...
of a type not infrequent in the classical Arabo-Islamic tradition, one not designed originally for general use but for exposure ...
The North Atlantic CHAPTER FORTY-ONE THE NORTH ATLANTIC EXPANSION Gísli Sigurðsson O ur main source of information about the set ...
that deal specifically with the Icelanders and their adventures from the settlement of their country in the late ninth century u ...
development of the settlement of Iceland after 870. No confirmed relics left by the papar have been found in Iceland. The first ...
weapons and tools. It is not mentioned whether any money was put into his tomb.’ The saga of Gísli Súrsson also mentions a ship ...
Studies of farm waste show that relatively more beef, pork and goat were eaten when Iceland was first settled, before mutton bec ...
(ad 976 ± 50 years). Radiocarbon dating of the oldest relics in the Western Settlement, most recently from the ‘Farm under the S ...
the first time. Earlier references also exist which show that the Vinland voyages were well known in Iceland and on the European ...
The overall picture of the voyages which emerges from the texts is reasonably clear: around the year 1000 people from Greenland ...
McEvoy, B. and Edwards, C.J. ( 2005 ) ‘Human migration: reappraising the Viking image’, Hered- ity, 95 : 111 – 12. Mortensen, A. ...
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ICELAND Jón Viðar Sigurðsson S cholarly discussion about the Icelandic Free State (c. 930 – 1262 / 4 ) was up ...
afterwards’, together with the foundation of a general assembly for the whole country c. 930 that marks the end of the settlemen ...
Within each quarter, three chieftains would hold a spring assembly (várþing) together, so that the Western, Southern and Eastern ...
of the information in the sagas does not support the type of constitution described in Grágás. The spring assemblies were never ...
communes, the spring assembly parish, the Quarters or the country as a whole. It was one of the main duties of the communes to f ...
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