The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

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  • 3 1 A schematic picture of Sámi culture Map of the Viking world xxiii

  • 6 1 The settlement district of Markim-Orkesta in Uppland, Sweden

  • 6 2 The settlement district of Ockelbo in Gästrikland, Sweden

  • 6 3 The distribution of place names containing the name of the god Týr

    • Jutland, Denmark 7 1 Reconstruction of a ‘Trelleborg house’ from Fyrkat, northern



  • 7 2 Reconstruction of a one-aisled house excavated at Gotland, Sweden

  • 7 3 Farms in the Viking Age village at Vorbasse, Jutland, Denmark

  • 7 4 The villages of Enerum, Öland, and Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden

  • 7 1 1 The archaeological status of the Tissø area in the Viking period

  • 7 1 2 Plan showing the layout of the manor in Phase

  • 7 1 3 Pendants depicting valkyries of the Norse mythology

  • 8 1 Map showing the towns and proto-towns discussed in this chapter

  • 8 1 1 Aerial view of Birka

  • 8 1 2 Map of Birka

  • 8 1 3 Birka jetty

  • 8 2 1 Map of Hedeby with all excavation trenches between 1900 and

  • 8 2 2 Map showing finds of early medieval coins dated after c.

  • 8 2 3 Metal-detected animal-brooches in the Urnes style

  • 8 2 4 Magnetogram of the geophysical research from

  • 8 2 5 Simplified interpretation of the magnetic anomalies

  • 8 2 6 Excavation of a burnt-down pit-house of late tenth-century date

  • 8 3 1 Digital model of the Kaupang area

    • excavations in the settlement area at Kaupang 8 3 2 The extent of Blindheim’s ( 1956 – 74 ) and Skre’s ( 1999 – 2003 )

    • 2000 – 8 3 3 House remains and plot division in the main excavation area



  • 8 3 4 A tentative reconstruction of the town in the mid-ninth century

  • 8 4 1 The hall at Lejre, tenth century

  • 8 5 1 Plan of the town of Ribe

  • 8 6 1 ‘Ridanæs’, the Viking Age harbour at Fröjel, Gotland

  • 8 7 1 Plan of the excavated areas and Skt Nikolaj Bjerg

  • 8 7 2 Plan of the wooden church and adjoining churchyard

  • 8 8 1 The oldest map of Sigtuna, dating from

  • 8 8 2 The remains of buildings in the Urmakaren block in Sigtuna

    • Uppåkra 8 9 1 Imaginative animal in solid silver with necklace of gold found at

    • found in Aggersbog, Denmark 9 1 Eidsborg hones and fragments of steatite vessels from Norway,



  • 9 2 Tenth-century hoard of brass bars from Myrvälde, Gotland

  • 9 3 The distribution of the eighth–ninth-century Badorf-type ceramics

  • 10 1 Kufic dirhams found in a small hoard in Vestfold in south Norway

  • 10 2 Cut silver pennies of Anglo-Saxon origin found in the Viking world

  • 10 3 Danish penny issued for Cnut the Great

  • 10 4 Norwegian pennies from the 1050 s and 1060 s

  • 11 1 The central part of the Oseberg and Gokstad ships

    • Skuldelev 11 2 The Viking Ship Museum’s reconstruction of the longship



  • 11 3 The beam/length index values for Scandinavian ship finds

  • 11 4 Reconstructed amidships sections of ships mentioned in the text

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  • 18 1 Plan of the cult house at Borg and distribution of pig bones

  • 18 2 Gold figurine from Lunda

  • 19 1 Settlement distribution in southern Scandinavia, c. ad

  • 19 2 A clay animal paw from Hjortö, Saltvik

  • 19 3 A reconstruction of the Oseberg ship burial

  • 19 4 A reconstruction of Birka chamber grave Bj.

  • 23 3 1 Sigurðr impaling the dragon Fafnir, Ramsund monument in Sweden

  • 24 1 Style E ornament on gilt-bronze harness-mounts from Broa, Gotland

  • 24 2 Picture stone from Ardre, Gotland

  • 24 3 Borre-style mounts

  • 24 4 Ornament on cup from Jelling, Jutland

  • 24 5 Mammen axe, both sides

  • 24 6 Picture stone from Vang, Oppland, Norway

  • 24 7 Portal of the wooden stave-church from Urnes, Norway

    • Coppergate 27 2 1 Excavations in 1967 – 81 by York Archaeological Trust in



  • 27 2 2 Iron coin-die for a St Peter’s penny, struck in York

  • 27 3 1 The Balladoole burial, Isle of Man

    • at Peel, St Patrick’s Isle 27 3 2 Drawing of the high-status female found in a Christian graveyard



  • 27 3 3 Ornament on memorial cross from Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man

    • at Braaid 27 3 4 The remains of a pre-Norse round house and two other buildings



  • 28 1 Skewsby, Yorkshire signpost

  • 28 2 Norfolk signpost

  • 28 3 Kettleshulme, Cheshire signpost

  • 28 4 Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire signpost

  • 28 5 Ramnageo, Shetland signpost

  • 28 6 Duncansby, Caithness signpost

  • 28 7 Map showing areas where Scandinavian place names occur

    • Anglesey 29 1 Early tenth-century silver arm-rings from Red Wharf Bay, Isle of

    • Anglesey 29 2 Tenth-century silver ingots and arm-ring from Llanbedrgoch,



  • 30 1 Map showing principal sites mentioned in the text

  • 30 2 Structure 5 at Quoygrew, Orkney

  • 30 3 Distribution of Scottish Viking Age burials including grave goods

  • 30 4 A comb of indigenous ‘Pictish’ style from Buckquoy, Orkney

    • distribution 33 1 1 Successive borders of Normandy and Scandinavian place-name



  • 33 1 2 Rollo’s statue in Rouen

    • western Finland 35 1 Brooches and other ornaments characteristic of women’s dress in



  • 35 2 Ornaments from grave no. 16 , Tuukkala cemetery in Mikkeli, Savo

  • 36 1 Map of the eastern Baltic in the Viking Age

  • 36 2 Viking Age coin hoards from the eastern Baltic

  • 36 3 Scandinavian silver pendants from Estonian hoards

    • Livonians’ Krimulda cemetery 36 4 Local imitations of Scandinavian oval brooches from the Gauja



  • 37 1 Map of the ‘way from the Varangians to the Greeks’ 506 –

    • Europe 38 1 Map showing the sites with finds of Scandinavian origin in eastern



  • 38 2 Silver strap-end found in Kaliningrad

  • 38 3 Scandinavian finds from the area of the Upper Volga

  • 38 4 Finds from a hoard found in 1868 in Gnëzdovo

  • 41 1 Map of the North Atlantic

  • 42 1 1 The Viking farm at Toftanes, Leirvík

  • 42 1 2 The site of Junkarinsfløttur at Sandur, Sandoy

  • 42 1 3 Junkarinsfløttur, Sandur: excavation of a ruin in

  • 43 1 Map showing the Norse settlements in Greenland

  • 43 2 The Hvalsey fjord farm

  • 43 3 The celebration hall at the Hvalsey fjord farm

  • 44 1 Map of Vinland

  • 44 2 The L’Anse aux Meadows site

  • 44 3 Plan of the L’Anse aux Meadows site

    • New Brunswick 44 4 The Miramichi River at Metepenagiaq Mi’kmaq First Nation,



  • 44 1 1 Map showing the distribution of objects relating to Norse contact

    • and north-western Greenland 44 1 2 Selected artefacts relating to Norse contact from Arctic Canada



  • 46 1 Typical details of zoomorphic carving

    • runestones 46 2 The layout of both non-zoomorphic and zoomorphic Swedish



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