The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Rasmussen, M. (ed.) ( 1999 ) Hal og højsæde i vikingetid. Et forslag til rekonstruktion af kongehallens arkitektur og inredning ...

CHAPTER SEVEN ( 1 ) MANOR, CULT AND MARKET AT LAKE TISSØ Lars Jørgensen O ne of the Viking magnates’ complexes is situated on th ...

white-plastered walls. Probably the whole complex burned down in the middle or second half of the seventh century. On the basis ...

THE SECOND MANOR The first manor was then superseded by the later manor placed some 600 m further to the south. The^14 C datings ...

Figure 7. 1. 2 Plan showing the layout of the manor in Phase 3 , preliminarily dated to the ninth–tenth centuries. –– Lars Jørge ...

and weapon parts from the site shows a clear concentration at the manor. Sherds of Carolingian drinking glasses are likewise onl ...

not suggest long-lasting occupation in the market and production areas. There seem to have been short, but intense periods of ac ...

CHAPTER EIGHT THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBANISM IN SCANDINAVIA Dagfinn Skre T he earliest Viking Age is the period when urbanism first ...

character almost up to the time when its inhabitants started raiding the coasts of these kingdoms and of Ireland, and penetratin ...

years later ( 808 ) Hedeby was founded in the south-eastern corner on the border with the Saxons and Slavonic tribes. Today, Hed ...

buyers will not bring silver to buy them. Not only did the town need someone to defend it from attacks and plunder, but people a ...

character and development is so overwhelming. Apparently they are first and foremost aristocratic manors with more or less disti ...

and 851 – 2 , mentions a royal bailiff in the town. On what was probably the petty king’s farm with the name Skiringssal, now Hu ...

The Ribe plots were established at the beginning of the marketplace period and were basically the same after it was converted in ...

Also the interior arrangements of houses are common in rural settlements of the time. An open hearth was built on the floor in t ...

Several of these crafts demanded highly skilled practitioners and this skill and knowledge was passed on and developed through g ...

This development is mirrored in changes in weighing equipment. The earliest Viking Age weights were rather imprecise and many lo ...

Reynolds, S. ( 1977 ) An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Skre, D. ( 1998 ) ‘Miss ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 1 ) BIRKA Björn Ambrosiani I n the eighth century ad, while Charlemagne still relied on traditions linked to the ...

Figure 8. 1. 1 Birka is situated on an island in the Lake Mälaren bay, Björkfjärden, along the route between the Baltic Sea and ...