The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Russia and the east

37 The Viking Rus and Byzantium 496
Jonathan Shepard

38 The Vikings in the east 517
Fjodor Androshchuk

39 The Vikings and Islam 543
Egil Mikkelsen

40 Arabic sources on the Vikings 550
J.E. Montgomery

The North Atlantic

41 The North Atlantic expansion 562
Gísli Sigurðsson

42 Iceland 571
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
( 1 ) The Faroe Islands 579
Símun V. Arge

43 The Norse settlements in Greenland 588
Jette Arneborg
( 1 ) The North Atlantic farm: an environmental view 598
Paul Buckland

44 The discovery of Vinland 604
Birgitta Wallace
( 1 ) Norse and natives in the eastern Arctic 613
Patricia Sutherland

PART III: SCANDINAVIA ENTERS

THE EUROPEAN STAGE

The coming of Christianity

45 Christianisation and the emergence of the early Church in Scandinavia 621
Stefan Brink

46 Runestones and the Christian missions 629
Anne-Sofie Gräslund and Linn Lager
( 1 ) The material culture of the Christianisation 639
Anne-Sofie Gräslund

The development of nation states (ríki)

47 The creation of Norway 645
Claus Krag

48 The emergence of Denmark and the reign of Harald Bluetooth 652
Else Roesdahl

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