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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
INTRODUCTION
chapter |5 pages
WHO WERE THE VIKINGS?
part |2 pages
PART I: VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA
chapter |12 pages
SCANDINAVIA BEFORE THE VIKING AGE
chapter |8 pages
THE SÁMI AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE NORDIC PEOPLES
chapter |9 pages
WOMEN AND SEXUAL POLITICS
chapter |8 pages
SLAVERY IN THE VIKING AGE
chapter |10 pages
NAMING THE LAND
chapter |16 pages
FARM AND VILLAGE IN THE VIKING AGE
chapter |67 pages
THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBANISM IN SCANDINAVIA
chapter |9 pages
LOCAL AND LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE
chapter |11 pages
COINAGE AND MONETARY ECONOMIES
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 |23 pages
The religion of the Vikings Anders Hultgård
chapter |14 pages
POPULAR RELIGION IN THE VIKING AGE
chapter |8 pages
THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF OLD NORSE RELIGION
chapter |17 pages
DYING AND THE DEAD: VIKING AGE MORTUARY BEHAVIOUR
chapter |7 pages
THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE VIKING AGE
chapter |10 pages
RUNES
chapter |13 pages
POETRY IN THE VIKING AGE
chapter |19 pages
THE ICELANDIC SAGAS
chapter |16 pages
THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIKING ART
part |2 pages
PART II: THE VIKING EXPANSION
chapter |9 pages
VIKINGS IN ENGLAND
chapter |18 pages
VIKINGS IN INSULAR CHRONICLING
chapter |23 pages
VIKING SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND
chapter |10 pages
SCANDINAVIAN PLACE NAMES IN THE BRITISH ISLES
chapter |10 pages
THE VIKINGS IN WALES
chapter |17 pages
THE NORSE IN SCOTLAND
chapter |6 pages
THE VIKINGS AND IRELAND
chapter |23 pages
Scandinavia and the Continent in the Viking Age Johan Callmer
chapter |8 pages
THE VIKINGS IN SPAIN, NORTH AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
chapter |15 pages
THE VIKING AGE IN FINLAND
chapter |11 pages
THE VIKINGS AND THE EASTERN BALTIC
chapter |21 pages
THE VIKING RUS AND BYZANTIUM
chapter |26 pages
THE VIKINGS IN THE EAST
chapter |7 pages
THE VIKINGS AND ISLAM
chapter |12 pages
ARABIC SOURCES ON THE VIKINGS
chapter |9 pages
THE NORTH ATLANTIC EXPANSION
chapter |17 pages
ICELAND
chapter |16 pages
THE NORSE SETTLEMENTS IN GREENLAND
chapter |15 pages
THE DISCOVERY OF VINLAND
part |2 pages
PART III: SCANDINAVIA ENTERS THE EUROPEAN STAGE