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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
- rg’s costume and equipment ̇
- 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