The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Archbishop Rimbert mentions Birka in his ninth-century account, Vita Ansgarii, as the place of the first Christian mission to th ...

merchants whose contacts reached far to the east: to the Rus’, the Khazars, Byzantium and the eastern Caliphate (Ambrosiani 2001 ...

Several early ‘Viking Age motifs’ can be shown to have been produced before ad 800 , showing that several ‘Viking Age’ phenomena ...

by contacts towards the east (Ambrosiani 2001 , 2002 ). This is simultaneous with the appearance of the Rus’ and the earliest Sc ...

Arbman, H. ( 1940 – 3 ) Birka, vol. 1 : Die Gräber, Stockholm: KVHAA. Arwidsson, G. (ed.) ( 1984 – 9 ) Birka, vol. 2 : 1 – 3 , S ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 2 ) HEDEBY: AN OUTLINE OF ITS RESEARCH HISTORY Volker Hilberg T he Viking Age emporium of Hedeby is situated at ...

with conserved wood near the coastline, especially in the depression crossed by a small stream (Knorr 1924 : 27 ). The resumptio ...

stratigraphy up to 2 metres ( Jankuhn 1936 , 1943 ). Archaeological research and interest have been focused for decades in this ...

With the metal-detected finds our knowledge of the settlement complex enlarged considerably: for many different object types – s ...

maps 28 – 9 ; Westphalen 1989 : 28 – 36 figs 5 – 7 ). The magnetic structures in this area of the settlement could be interprete ...

characteristic of early medieval trading centres, such as Sigtuna or Dublin (Clarke and Ambrosiani 1991 : 138 – 41 figs 5. 5 and ...

To the south-west of the settlement spread a huge cemetery area, with the mid-ninth- century boat grave as a focus. Also, inside ...

But further research is needed to decide if the cemetery area outside and inside the late tenth-century rampart originally forme ...

EXCAVATION AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SINCE 2005 In 2005 new smaller-scale excavations started to verify the results and interpret ...

——( 1977 ) ‘Das Bronzegießerhandwerk in Haithabu’, in L. Gerevich and Á. Salamon (eds) La formation et le développement des méti ...

Haithabu’, in K. Schietzel (ed.) Archäometrische Untersuchungen (Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu 18 ), Neumünster: Wa ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 3 ) KAUPANG – ‘SKÍRINGSSALR’ Dagfinn Skre K aupang is located by the mouth of the Oslo fjord, in the region of V ...

notes the farm Kaupang in the same parish. The name of this farm, which literally means ‘trade-bay’, indicates, he writes, that ...

Age graves for south-eastern Norway. They were cremation graves only, rather rich in weapons and brooches, but without indicatio ...

cold Norwegian winters. Blindheim does not state clearly whether she thinks the kaupang had its own permanent population or whet ...