Format:
1 online resource (646 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047421214
Series Statement:
The Northern World Ser. v.31
Content:
Prepared in tribute to Barbara E Crawford, this work covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. It features 30 papers that are arranged in four groups including: History, Cultural Contacts; The Church, and the Cult of Sain.
Content:
Foreword (Nicholas Brooks) -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- County Abbreviations -- Barbara E. Crawford-A Bibliography -- PART ONE HISTORY AND CULTURAL CONTACTS -- On Reading the Icelandic Sagas: Approaches to Old Icelandic Texts (Paul Bibire) -- Becoming Scottish in the thirteenth century: the evidence of the Chronicle of Melrose (Dauvit Broun) -- Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century (Clare Downham) -- Image and Imagination: The Inchmarnock 'Hostage Stone' (Christopher Lowe) -- Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions found outside the British Isles (Elisabeth Okasha) -- From Scotland to Normandy: The Celtic Sea Route of the Vikings (Élisabeth Ridel) -- The appearance and personal abilities of goðar, jarlar, and konungar: Iceland, Orkney and Norway (Jón Viðar Sigurðsson) -- 'Lords of Norroway' The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter (Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei) -- 'These people were high-born and thought well of themselves': The family of Moddan of Dale (Gareth Williams) -- The Wood Beyond the World: Jämtland and the Norwegian Kings (Alex Woolf) -- PART TWO THE CHURCH AND THE CULT OF SAINTS -- Conversion and the Church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age: "A Very Dif? cult Thing Indeed" (Lesley Abrams) -- A Norwegian in Durham: An Anatomy of a Miracle in Reginald of Durham's Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti (Haki Antonsson, Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti) -- Irish and Armenian Ecclesiastics in Medieval Iceland (Margaret Cormack) -- Medieval Parish Formation in Orkney (Sarah Jane Gibbon) -- The Church of St. Clement in Oslo (Hans-Emil Lidén) -- The Shetland Chapel-sites Project 1999-2000 (Christopher D. Morris, with Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson) -- PART THREE ARCHAEOLOGY, MATERIAL CULTURE AND SETTLEMENT.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004158931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004158931
Language:
English
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