peace treaty 375 , 533
peacock(s) 265
Pecheneg(s) (Petchenegs), semi-nomadic Turkic
people in Central Asia 500 – 4 , 554 – 6 , 558 – 9
Peel, Isle of Man 385 – 7
Peipsi, lake between Estonia and Russia 485
penannular brooches 35 , 475 , 490
pendants 35 , 78 , 81 , 133 , 146 , 182 , 189 , 254 – 5 ,
490 , 502 – 3 , 521 , 526 , 528 , 626 , 637 , 642 – 3
Penmon, monastery, Anglesey, Wales 402 , 407
Penygogarth, Wales 404
Pereiaslavets, fortress on the Lower Danube 503
Pereyaslav, Ukraine 528
Permian belt mountings 479
Permian strike-a-light 479
Persazh, Ukraine 526
Persia(n) 462 , 551 , 553 , 558
Perun, Slav god of lightning and power 505
Petchenegs, see Pechenegs
Petrovskoe, Russia 523
Pétr Skúlason 313
petty king(dom) 16 , 24 , 34 , 87 – 8 , 195 – 6 , 411 ,
647 , 669
Photios, Patriarch 497 – 8
Pictland, Scotland 411 , 416 , 430 – 1
Picts 412 , 430
picture stone(s) 171 , 250 , 255 , 265 , 325 , 442 ,
479
piracy 493
piratae 354 – 5
Pisa, Italy 466
pit-house(s) 69 – 70 , 78 , 81 , 87 , 90 , 104 , 108 – 9 ,
127 , 135 – 6 , 191 , 600
Pitney brooch, Somerset, England 336
place names 1 – 2 , 12 , 14 , 27 , 34 , 57 – 65 , 112 ,
140 – 1 , 217 , 224 , 252 – 3 , 279 , 343 , 354 , 368 ,
376 – 7 , 389 , 391 – 98 , 403 – 5 , 408 , 411 , 413 ,
417 – 19 , 436 , 453 , 456 , 465 , 467 , 564 – 5 , 581
Plakun, Chernavino, Russia 521 – 2
Pljasheva, Ukraine 528
plot division 88 , 89 , 115 , 118 , 127 , 141 – 4 , 434 – 5
plunder(ing) 5 , 34 , 86 , 91 , 171 , 194 , 196 , 208 ,
212 , 224 , 269 , 357 , 360 , 368 , 403 , 408 , 428 ,
430 – 1 , 441 , 453 , 464 , 466 , 471 , 493 , 505 , 545 ,
670
Poetic Edda 2 , 50 – 1 , 63 , 214 , 217 , 219 , 236 – 7 ,
244 , 267 , 291 , 293 – 5 , 299 , 301 – 2 , 320
poetry 2 , 140 , 204 , 214 , 220 , 229 , 231 – 3 , 237 ,
241 – 2 , 244 , 267 , 286 , 291 – 5 , 297 , 300 , 305 – 6 ,
309 , 311 – 13 , 318 – 19 , 351 , 412 , 565
Poddle, Dublin 435 – 6
pogosts 531
Pohjola 471
Poland 183 , 208 , 254 , 531 , 560 , 621
polar bear 590 – 1 , 599
poliude 509
Polotsk, Belarus 504 – 5 , 520
Pool, Dublin 435 – 6
Pool, Orkney 415 , 418 , 422
Poppo 657
pork 544 , 566
Porkkala, Finland 478
port(s) (port-of-trade) 16 , 112 – 14 , 131 – 2 , 150 ,
153 , 174 , 609
portable wealth 194 , 196
Portland, Dorset, England 194 – 5 , 342
Portugal 463 , 465 , 467
pottery 98 , 103 , 121 – 2 , 127 , 260 , 372 , 377 , 382 ,
415 , 418 , 441 , 449 – 50 , 477 , 639
pottery-makers 190
Prague (Ar. Fraghah) 558
Pravda Yaroslavichej, Rus’ law 534
prayer(s) 216 , 240 , 283 , 285 – 6 , 346 , 429 , 508 ,
625 , 629 , 634
Preslav, capital of the First Bulgarian Empire
503 – 4
Priediens cemetery, Grobin ̧a, Latvia 517
Priestholm, Angelsey, Wales 404
priesthood 223
Prince Edward Island, Canada 569
Pripet, river, Belarus 504
prophetic women 237
Prose Edda 2 , 63 , 214 , 217 , 219 , 231 – 3 , 236 – 7 ,
244 , 291 , 293 – 5 , 299 , 301 – 2 , 306 , 313 , 320 ,
565
provincial laws 24 – 5 , 27 , 49 , 216 , 650 , 673
Prussia 98 , 151 , 491 , 517 – 8 , 531 , 558 , 621
Pskov, Russia 485 , 522 – 3 , 535
Pskovka, river, Russia 522
Ptolemy 551 , 556
puffins 584quarterland tenure system, Isle of Man 390
Quentovic 5 , 94–– Index––