The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

demonstrate that all the activities identified in the ninth century – trade and craft production – continued until the mid-tenth ...

Figure 8. 3. 3 House remains and plot division in the main excavation area 2000 – 2. Plot division is indicated by ditches and r ...

Nevertheless, this difference in the number of coins must have some other explan- ation than a drop in economic activity. The re ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Blindheim, Ch. ( 1969 ) ‘Kaupangundersøkelsen avsluttet. Kort tilbakeblikk på en lang utgravn- ing’, Viking, 33 : 5 ...

Pedersen, U. and Pilø, L. ( 2007 ) ‘The settlement: artefacts and site periods’, in D. Skre (ed.) Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupan ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 4 ) LEJRE AND ROSKILDE Tom Christensen T he role played by Lejre and Roskilde in the transition from a pagan tri ...

similarly remarkable stamps, while the imported pottery is mostly from the Frankish region. During the seventh century the settl ...

sunken-featured buildings, from which the finds can be dated to the eleventh century. The residences belonging to this period of ...

when the change of religion took place, and when Roskilde makes its appearance on the map. ROSKILDE The written descriptions of ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andersen, S.W. ( 1995 ) ‘Lejre – skibssætninger, vikingegrave og Grydehøj’, Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Hi ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 5 ) RIBE Claus Feveile T he written sources about Viking Age Ribe are few (Skovgaard-Petersen 1981 ). Ribe is me ...

south-west side is divided into several small sandy islets, separated by meadow and bogland. The north-east side is mostly flat, ...

more dense town-like structure. The material found in the settlement clearly indicates a connection with the marketplace as to a ...

At the beginning of the ninth century a ditch was dug around the Ribe, c. 2 m wide and 1 m deep (A). In several excavations the ...

Feveile, C. ( 1994 ) ‘The latest news from Viking Age Ribe: archaeological excavations 1993 ’, in B. Ambrosiani and H. Clarke (e ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 6 ) ‘RIDANÆS’: A VIKING AGE PORT OF TRADE AT FRÖJEL, GOTLAND Dan Carlsson T he Viking Age emporium ‘Ridanæs’ was ...

The activities of the port peaked during the eleventh century and the early part of the twelfth century, but continued at a more ...

CEMETERIES The oldest cemetery is situated at the northern end of the area and was almost entirely covered by later layers of se ...

The building appears to have been in use from the thirteenth century to the early seventeenth century, when it must have been de ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 7 ) SEBBERSUND Jens N. Nielsen T he use of metal detectors has led to the discovery of a number of late Iron Age ...