The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Greenland. The majority of these objects are small pieces of smelted iron, copper or bronze which were valuable commodities to t ...

Arneborg, J. ( 1997 ) ‘Cultural borders: reflections on Norse–Eskimo interaction’, in R. Gilberg and H.Ch. Gulløv (eds) Fifty Ye ...

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PART III SCANDINAVIA ENTERS THE EUROPEAN STAGE ...

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The coming of Christianity CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE CHRISTIANISATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE EARLY CHURCH IN SCANDINAVIA Stefan Brink ...

where the scribal technology was in the hands of a new social elite, the clergy. With the establishment of the Church a new hier ...

Viking Age, with a consolidation in the early Middle Ages, and is probably the most dynamic period in our history. We are dealin ...

the Swedes and convert them. The aforementioned monk, Ansgar, was some time in the 820 s chosen to go and check if the Swedes re ...

there should be three exemptions: you should still be allowed to eat horsemeat, you could continue to leave unwelcome newborn ch ...

(Kristinn réttr) on the island of Moster in 1024 , hence again a testimony of a political event. FROM WHERE DID THE NEW RELIGION ...

In Norway we have a well-known example of a bishop attached to a king’s court, acting as the king’s counsellor, namely the afore ...

Rimbert’s Vita Anskarii = Vita Anskarii. Accedit vita Rimberti, recensuit G. Waitz (Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores re ...

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX RUNESTONES AND THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS Anne-Sofie Gräslund and Linn Lager D uring the last decades of the tenth ...

runestone tradition prior to the Jelling stone and after, is the number of runestones produced. From the end of the tenth centur ...

ZOOMORPHIC CARVINGS The Upplandic runestones hold an exceptional position in the Swedish material, above all in number (c. 1 , 4 ...

Figure 46. 1 Typical details of zoomorphic carving, stylistic groups B-e-v and Pr 1 – Pr 5. (Drawing: Alicja Grenberger.) –– Ann ...

be argued that this system of classification puts too much weight on the shapes of specific details. However, they are not arbit ...

RUNESTONES AND CHRISTIANITY The connection between runestones and Christianity is clearly witnessed by the large amount of stone ...

completely disappeared due to extensive cultivation, and only the runestone is left in place. Runestones affiliated with cemeter ...