Rus (Russian) Primary Chronicle 182 , 498 – 9 , 501 ,
503 , 508 , 510 , 521 – 2 , 528 , 532 – 4 , 554
Russeter, Shetland 397
Russia 3 – 4 , 7 , 54 , 98 , 133 , 151 , 162 , 165 , 181 – 4 ,
189 – 90 , 208 , 215 , 254 , 260 , 263 , 267 , 278 ,
327 , 332 , 465 , 478 – 9 , 485 , 488 , 492 , 496 – 511 ,
517 – 36 , 545 – 7 , 554 , 567 , 666
Russo-Byzantine treaty 499 – 500
Rüstringen, Germany 623
-ryd 59 , 60
rygir 645
Ro ̨gnvaldr jarl, Västergötland, Sweden 26
Ro ̨gnvaldr, king of York 344
Saaremaa, Estonia 471 , 491 – 3
sable 532 , 545
Säby, Sweden 58
sacral kingship 225 , 230
sacral rulership 227
sacred grove 216
sacred spring(s) 565
sacrificed animals 187 , 265
sacrifices 14 , 97 , 121 , 187 , 215 – 6 , 223 – 5 , 229 – 30 ,
235 , 240 , 245 , 249 – 50 , 253 , 255 , 265 – 7 , 361 ,
385 , 504 – 5 , 528 , 532 , 565 , 625
sacrificial altar 565
sacrificial feasts 215 , 217 , 223
sacrificial offerings 208 , 216 , 253 , 259 , 369 , 385
sacrificial rituals 123
saddles 447 , 503
sagnaskemtan 306 – 7
Sa-id ibn al-Bitriq (Eutychius), Melkite patriarch of
Alexandria 553 , 556
sail(s) 170 – 2 , 174 , 176 – 7 , 183 , 265 , 326 , 479 , 499
-sal 65
Sal- 223
Salaspils Laukskola cemetery, Latvia 490
Salla, Finland 472
salmon 369 , 398 , 564 , 566
salr 16 , 65 , 79
salt 98 , 455 , 599 – 600
Samandar, Khazaria 559
Samarqand (Samarkand) 382 , 546
Sæming 228
samtiðarsögur 304
Sæmundr fróði (the Wise) 305 , 311 , 646
sancta lancea 208
sanctuary (-ies) 64 , 145 , 224 – 5
Sanda, Uppland, Sweden 250 – 2
Sandaig, Tiree, Hebrides 398
Sandur, Sandoy, Faroes 582
Sanvic, Normandy, France 456
Santiago, Galicia, Spain 465
Samanid dirhams 146 , 162 , 165
Sámi 17 , 32 , 91 , 182 – 3 , 219 – 20 , 230 , 247 – 8 , 265
Sæmundr Jónsson 43 – 4 , 46
Sandwick, Orkney and Shetland 396 , 415
Sandwick North, Shetland 415
Sangomore, Scotland 398
Sanwick, Caithness, Scotland 397
Saqaliba (Slavs) 544 , 550 , 552 – 60
sær 217
Sarskoe Gorodishche, Russia 523 , 531
Sarnes, Normandy, France 455
Sassanid design 182
Satakunta, Finland 470
-säter/-set 58 , 59
-sætr 397
saurr 391
Savo, region, Finland 471 , 481
sax 204
Saxo Grammaticus 17 , 63 , 214 , 233 , 320
Saxon(s) 60 , 85 , 126 , 193 , 196 , 404 , 509 – 10 , 621 ,
624 , 652 , 657
Saxony 165 , 439 – 40 , 442 , 446 – 8 , 450 , 502
Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo 557
scabbard(s) 205 , 369 , 382 , 491 , 517 , 523 , 525 ,
528 – 9
Scania, see Skåne
Scargill, Yorkshire, England 393
Scarlett, Isle of Man 398
sceattas 5 , 129 , 150 , 441
Schlei, Germany 101
Schleswig, Germany 60 , 85 , 101 , 623 , 627 , 654 ,
656 – 7
Sciringes heal, see Skíringssalr
scissors 183 – 4 , 529
Scollock, Pembrokeshire, Wales 404
Scotland 2 , 58 , 194 – 5 , 296 , 328 , 351 , 360 , 370 ,
382 , 387 , 390 – 1 , 394 – 8 , 404 , 411 – 22 , 428 – 32 ,
564 , 579 , 625 , 649
Scrabster, Caithness, Scotland 398
scrap metal 189 , 471
Scraptoft, Leicestershire, England 393–– Index––