ABSTRACT

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.

Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted.

Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe.

This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.

chapter |3 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter |5 pages

WHO WERE THE VIKINGS?

part |2 pages

PART I: VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA

chapter |9 pages

WOMEN AND SEXUAL POLITICS

chapter |8 pages

SLAVERY IN THE VIKING AGE

chapter |10 pages

NAMING THE LAND

chapter |11 pages

VIKING SHIPS AND THE SEA

chapter |5 pages

VIKING AGE TEXTILES

chapter |7 pages

HANDICRAFTS

chapter |11 pages

TEEN RAIDING AND WARFARE

chapter |8 pages

VIKING WEAPONRY

chapter |10 pages

RUNES

chapter |13 pages

POETRY IN THE VIKING AGE

chapter |19 pages

THE ICELANDIC SAGAS

part |2 pages

PART II: THE VIKING EXPANSION

chapter |9 pages

VIKINGS IN ENGLAND

chapter |10 pages

THE VIKINGS IN WALES

chapter |17 pages

THE NORSE IN SCOTLAND

chapter |6 pages

THE VIKINGS AND IRELAND

chapter |15 pages

THE VIKING AGE IN FINLAND

chapter |26 pages

THE VIKINGS IN THE EAST

chapter |7 pages

THE VIKINGS AND ISLAM

chapter |17 pages

ICELAND

chapter |15 pages

THE DISCOVERY OF VINLAND

part |2 pages

PART III: SCANDINAVIA ENTERS THE EUROPEAN STAGE