Agnus Dei coins 163
Ágrip 623
Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas ibn Rashid ibn
Hammad, see Ibn Fadlan
Åhus, Skåne, Sweden 151
Aignish, Lewis, Hebrides 398
Airy Holme, Yorkshire, England
Aiskew, Yorkshire, England 393
åker, akr/Åker, Aker 62 – 3 , 65 , 217 , 253
Akranes, Iceland 564
*al 64
Al- 223
Åland, Finland 254 , 258 , 260 , 472 – 3 , 477 – 9 , 525 ,
546
Alan 554
al-Andalus, the Umayyad emirate in Spain 463 ,
465 , 467 , 552 , 556 – 9
Alba, kingdom, Scotland 344 – 5 , 363 , 411 ,
416
al-Artha, capital in al-Arthaniyya 555
al-Arthaniyya 555
al-Bakri 466 , 561
al-Balkhi 559
al-baringâr 544
al-Biruni, astronomer 550 , 560
Ålborg, Denmark 164 , 335
Alcuin of York 350
Alexander iii, Scottish king 650
Alexandria, Egypt 554 , 557
álfablót 215 , 237
álfar 213 , 236 – 7
Ælfgar, jarl 403
Ælfgifu, Cnut the great’s concubine 666
Alfred the great of Wessex 32 , 34 , 112 , 194 ,
197 – 8 , 341 – 3 , 350 , 353 , 355 , 375 – 6 , 645 , 654
Alfræði íslenzk 320
Algarve, Portugal 464 , 467
Algeciras, Spain 464 – 5
al-Ghazal (‘the Gazelle’), Arab poet and diplomat
464 – 5 , 543 , 545 , 560 – 1
al-Hadath 557
alhs 64 – 5
al-Ifranja (Ar. Francia) 559
al-Istakhri 555 , 558 , 561
al-Jayhani, vizier in Bukhara 560 – 1
al-Khazar 555
al-Khwarazmi, geodesist 551 , 558
al-Ladhqah 556
Allsherjargoði 27
al-Majus 550 , 552 , 557 , 559
al-Ma’mun, Caliph 551 , 559
al-Maqqari 465
al-Masudi (al-Ma-s‘u ̄dı ̄) 532 , 544 , 555 – 60
Almería, Spain 467
Almish ibn Yiltawar (Elteber), king of the Volga
Bulghar 553
al-Muqaddasi 559 – 60
al-Muqtadir, Caliph 553
al-Mutanabbi 557
Alsike, Uppland, Sweden 65 , 265
Alsnö(hus), see Adelsö
Alstonby, Cumbria, England 394
al-Qabq, mountains 556
al-Rum (Byzantium) 559
al-Rus (al-Rûs) 545 , 550 , 552 , 555 – 6 , 558 – 9
al-Rusiyya 559
al-Sarir 555
al-Sla, capital in al-Slawiyya 555
al-Slawiyya 555
al-Tartuschi 543
Alþingi 312 – 3 , 565 , 572 , 624
Altuna runestone, Uppland, Sweden 232 , 254
Alvastra, monastery, Östergötland, Sweden 671
Alvíss 237
Alvíssmál 237
Al-Yaqubi 552
ambactus 53
ambátt, ambótt 52
amber 90 , 98 , 115 , 127 , 190 , 254 , 382 , 386 , 441 ,
471 , 520 – 1 , 545 , 583
amberworking 115 , 520
ämbete 53
Amin Râzi 544
Amlaíb (Óláfr) 429 , 430 – 1
Amlaíb Cuarán, see Óláfr Sigtryggsson kváran
Amlaíb (Óláfr), king of Dublin 429 , 432
Amotherby, North Yorkshire, England 392
amphora(e) 510 , 533 – 4
amulet(s) 79 , 209 , 213 , 245 , 250 – 1 , 253 – 5 , 288 ,
369 , 371 , 503 , 642
amulet rings 250 – 1 , 254
Andalucia, Spain 466
Andalusians 556
Anglesey, Wales 401 – 3 , 404 , 405 – 8–– Index––