The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Hjärne, E. ( 1947 ) ‘Rod och runor’, Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps- Samfundets i Uppsala årsbok ( 1946 ): 21 – 126. Holm, P. ( ...

Living space CHAPTER SIX NAMING THE LAND Stefan Brink T he Viking Age in Scandinavia is – unlike in Francia, Ireland and Anglo-S ...

chronology for the Scandinavian settlement names (Brink 1983 , 1984 ; Strid 1999 : 43 ff.). One important terminus is the transf ...

are plentiful in Trøndelag in central Norway, while -land names are typical in south- western Norway. For especially eastern cen ...

torp and -ryd, -röd are common for medieval settlements, whereas we find names ending in -boda and -böle in northern Sweden fro ...

an inhabitative name. Instead it seems to be a name of the route along the western Norwegian coast, towards Trøndelag and Håloga ...

reconstruct a communal focus, with cultic and judicial indications. One example may be the bygd Ockelbo in the province of Gästr ...

Anglo-Saxon hundreds (note, however, that OSw hundari is not linguistically identical with OE hundred). In other words all these ...

denoted a cultic building or a hall, one cannot disregard the possibility that the Scandinavian word, ON hof, has been semantica ...

has been understood as a prehistoric sheiling and also as a barn for hay-fodder. Today there is no doubt that salr in place name ...

Bately, J. and Englert, A. (eds) ( 2007 ) Ohthere’s Voyages. A Late 9 th-century Account of Voyages Along the Coasts (Maritime C ...

CHAPTER SEVEN FARM AND VILLAGE IN THE VIKING AGE Jan-Henrik Fallgren D espite the fact that the sources concerning the Viking Ag ...

three-aisled longhouse started to be built in the south of Scandinavia. These houses were significantly wider: up to 12. 5 m in ...

in general smaller than the older three-aisled longhouses, and because these houses seldom had several functions the number of b ...

the buildings of the smaller farms amounted to about 200 – 350 m^2. The collected floor area for the many buildings of the large ...

villages lay between 9 , 000 – 25 , 000 m^2 and the biggest could have an acreage up to 40 , 000 m^2 (Hvass 1988 : 86 ff.; Jørge ...

2004 : 187 ). Without doubt this structure was strongly influenced by the very regularly formed Waldhufendörfer, Angerdörfer and ...

with separate, enclosed long-strips, in exactly the same way as in the regular Frankish, German and Norman villages on the Briti ...

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