The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

and the Norse settlement on the islands in the west, was founded. An important factor behind the foundation of the archbishopric ...

Árný E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir et al. ( 2004 ) ‘ 14 C dating of the settlement of Iceland’, Radiocarbon, 46 ( 1 ): 387 – 94. Árný E. ...

Stein-Wilkeshuis, M.W. ( 1987 ) ‘Common land tenure in medieval Iceland’, Recueils de la société Jean Bodin, 44 : 575 – 85. Stur ...

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ( 1 ) THE FAROE ISLANDS Símun V. Arge T he Faroe Islands are located in the North Atlantic at the latitudes of ...

capped by layers from a medieval settlement on the same site. Because of the excavation method, medieval artefacts were found mi ...

almost 5 m long was recorded. The eastern part of the longhouse may have contained a byre. Added to the southern wall of the lon ...

areas. Twenty-two buildings were unearthed, with eight and thirteen in the afore- mentioned areas respectively. Within these two ...

eleventh century at least (Krogh 1975 , 1983 ). When the churchyard in the 1970 s was extended towards the south remains of Viki ...

those interred had been buried with an iron knife which had thin silver threads entwined around the handle; one of these, a youn ...

in place, with small-scale yet intensive cultivation undertaken. Cereal cultivation seems to have played a lesser role in the ec ...

Blackburn, M. ( 2005 ) ‘Coinage and contacts in the North Atlantic during the seventh to mid- tenth centuries’, in A. Mortensen ...

Congress, Thurso and Kirkwall, 22 August– 1 September 1989 , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ——( 1999 ) ‘I Jan Pedersens ...

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE THE NORSE SETTLEMENTS IN GREENLAND Jette Arneborg I n the late tenth century Viking settlers moved further w ...

Figure 43. 1 About 500 farms have been recorded in the Norse Eastern Settlement (Mellembygden and Østerbygden on the map). About ...

CONDITIONS FOR SETTLEMENT Geographically the Greenland settlements were several days’ sailing from Iceland, and a well-developed ...

Until now about 500 Norse sites have been recorded in the Eastern Settlement and about 100 in the Western Settlement. The averag ...

type with a main room furnished with a central long hearth and benches along the long walls (e.g. Vebæk 1993 ; Albrethsen and Ól ...

THE CHURCH No pagan graves have been found in Greenland, and from the initial settlement the leading landnám families may have h ...

however is hardly consistent with the fact that in the same period they had ships to cross the Melville Bay in North Greenland ( ...

(Arneborg 2003 : 117 ff.), and today hostilities between the Thule culture people and the Norse do not play a dominant role in t ...