The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

(Gustavson 1986 : 14 ), indicates a conscious use and speaks in favour of the ideological interpretation. RUNESTONES AND THE CHR ...

historical sources were written within the realms of the German Church, they generally downplay the impact of British Christiani ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Birkeli, F. ( 1973 ) Norske steinkors i tidlig middelalder. Et bidrag til belysning av overgangen fra norrøn religi ...

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX ( 1 ) THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CHRISTIANISATION Anne-Sofie Gräslund R eferring to the chapter ‘The material ...

categories contain the same type of jewellery, but the pagan graves also contain metal vessels with food. However, when discussi ...

churchyard wall in 1988 revealed a Viking Age estate with many and unusually large buildings. This farm was encircled by a robus ...

century were excavated in 2000 (Hedvall 2003 ). At the churchyard thirty fragments of so-called ‘Eskilstuna sarcophagi’ were fou ...

possible Christian connotation. The keys are distributed over north-west Germany and southern England and Scandinavia, and chron ...

Staecker, J. ( 1999 ) Rex regum et dominus dominorum. Die wikingerzeitliche Kreuz- und Krucifixanhänger als Ausdruck der Mission ...

The development of nation states (ríki) CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN THE CREATION OF NORWAY Claus Krag ‘N orway’ was originally a geograp ...

In modern times ‘the creation of Norway’ (or rikssamlingen as it is known, literally ‘the unification of the realm’) has taken u ...

appears to have been different: here it is Harald in his south-west Norwegian kingdom who was attacked by rivals that came from ...

assumption of the national throne, both of these men had gained power and wealth in England, in connection with the Danish conqu ...

authority behind him. This connection, and loyalty, stretched equally in the opposite direction. The lendmann was as a rule a ch ...

the throne and their adherents. An especially intense conflict developed between King Magnus Erlingsson (r. 1161 – 84 ) and his ...

grew into being at this time. From 1450 , Norway was part of a durable union with Denmark that lasted until 1814. BIBLIOGRAPHY A ...

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT THE EMERGENCE OF DENMARK AND THE REIGN OF HARALD BLUETOOTH Else Roesdahl O n the great runestone at Jelling, ...

Figure 48. 1 Map of Viking Age Denmark. (Drawing: Louise Hilmar.) –– chapter 48 : The emergence of Denmark–– ...

Carolingian Empire and later the German realm. Denmark’s location in southern Scan- dinavia meant that many European influences ...

in what later became the kingdom. From the end of the eighth century, when the Carolingians’ northern expansion and the Danish V ...