Beorhtric of Wessex, king 194 , 342 , 356
Beowulf 12 , 17 , 320 , 668
Berezan’, island, Ukraine 520 , 535
berg 217
Bergen, Norway 140 , 293 , 593 , 611 , 646 , 649
berserkr 242 , 509
Bersi Vermundarson the rich 43 , 311
Bertby, Saltvik, Åland, Finland 546
Bessastaðir, Iceland 601
Bessin, Normandy, France 454
Bestla 214
Bhiosta, Tiree, Hebrides 398
Biarmia 472
Bikjholberget, Tjølling, Vestfold, Norway 114
bildstenar, see picture stones
Bilgorod, Ukraine 528
Biljar, Russia 523
bindrunor 282
birds of prey 444
birkibeinar 650
biritual cemetery 103
birchbark letters 534 , 559
Birger Brosa, jarl 672
Birger Magnusson, jarl 672
Birka, Lake Mälaren, Sweden 1 , 16 , 53 , 81 , 84 – 5 ,
87 , 89 – 91 , 94 – 100 , 115 , 127 , 132 , 140 – 1 ,
146 – 8 , 150 , 152 , 155 , 167 , 181 – 4 , 189 – 90 ,
207 , 254 – 5 , 262 – 4 , 266 , 268 – 9 , 302 , 330 , 441 ,
449 , 460 , 477 – 9 , 497 , 525 , 528 , 530 – 1 , 547 ,
624 , 627 , 642 , 669
birki 393
Birthorpe, Lincolnshire, England 393
bishop 28 , 46 , 85 , 95 , 123 , 126 , 141 , 143 , 281 ,
304 , 311 – 12 , 345 , 375 , 379 , 390 , 402 , 467 – 8 ,
498 , 502 , 573 , 576 , 593 , 599 , 605 , 622 – 7 , 649 ,
656 , 662 , 666 – 7 , 670 , 672 – 3
bishopric(s) 124 , 143 , 465 , 575 – 6 , 626 , 649 ,
669 – 72
biskupa sögur 304
-bister, Shetland/Orkney 397
Bjarkeyjarréttr 88
Bjarni Herjólfsson 605
Bjerringhøj, Mammen, Jutland, Denmark 205 ,
329
Bjerringhøj chamber grave 205 , 329
Björkö, Lake Mälaren, Sweden 53 , 477
Björn, Swedish king 623
Bjo ̨rn Ironside, Viking leader 465 – 6
The Black Earth, Birka 94 , 96 – 8
Black Sea 132 , 146 , 478 , 496 – 9 , 556 , 560
blacksmith(s) 15 , 62 , 90 , 115 , 187 , 473 , 520 , 530
Bleking, Sweden 58
Blekinge, Sweden 335 , 652 , 669
Blindethuayt, Dumfriesshire, Scotland 395
blockage(s) 174
‘blood eagle’ 196
blótdrykkja (pl. -drykkjur) 215
Blot-Sven (r. c. 1080 ), Swedish king 672
blótveizla (pl. -veizlur) 215
Bnts (Black Sea) 556 , 560
-bo 62
boat(s) 37 , 68 , 103 , 114 , 138 , 170 – 1 , 177 , 197 ,
232 , 265 , 268 , 326 , 385 – 6 , 415 , 436 , 449 , 473 ,
479 – 80 , 499 , 500 – 1 , 504 , 521 , 526 , 546 , 608
boat-building technique 479
boat-chamber grave(s) 101 , 205 , 207
boat grave(s) (burials) 17 , 36 – 7 , 103 , 107 , 114 ,
138 , 182 – 3 , 254 – 5 , 264 , 267 , 385 – 6 , 420 , 473 ,
479 , 530 , 533 , 545
-boda 59 , 60
Boeslunde, Sjælland, Denmark 16
bog finds 249
bogi 393
Bohemia 165 , 449 , 477 , 621
Bohuslän, Sweden 58
-böke 65
-böle 59 , 60
Bolesław Chrobry, Polish king 208 , 510
-bólstaðr 58 , 397 – 8
bona regalia 62
bone 35 , 70 , 73 , 91 , 98 , 121 , 127 , 132 , 135 , 138 ,
146 , 187 – 8 , 204 – 5 , 236 , 250 – 3 , 255 , 260 , 264 ,
269 , 330 , 333 , 369 , 382 , 415 , 435 , 473 , 480 ,
490 , 521 , 583 – 4 , 590 , 595 , 599 – 600 , 660
bone skate(s) 480
Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England 393
booty 249
Book of Icelanders, see Íslendingabók
Book of Kells 146 – 7 ,
Book of Settlement, see Landnámabók
Bookprose theory 306
Borg, Birka, Sweden 97
Borg, Iceland 311 – 2
Borg, Östergötland, Sweden 217 , 250 – 2–– Index––