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1 online resource (xxix, 581 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 31 |
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Northern world ; v. 31.
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| Contents |
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) |
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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) |
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PART TWO THE CHURCH AND THE CULT OF SAINTSConversion 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) |
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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; Norwick: Shetland's first Viking settlement? (Beverley Ballin Smith); The Pirate Fishermen: The Political Economy of a Medieval Maritime Society (James H. Barrett); 'Like stray words or letters' The development and workings of the Treasure Trove system (Neil G.W. Curtis); Early Medieval Sculpture from the Faroes: an illustrated catalogue (Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott) |
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Liminality and Loss: The Material Culture of St Serf 's Priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, Scotland (Mark A. Hall)Manuring practices in Scotland: deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record (Jo McKenzie); Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: three wilderness settlements in Shetland (Brian Smith); Governor on Antiquarian Mission: Christian Pløyen- a Faroese Link between Copenhagen and Shetland (Steffen Stummann Hansen); PART FOUR PLACE-NAMES AND LANGUAGE; The Scandinavian element gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw (Gillian Fellows-Jensen) |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Vikings -- Great Britain
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Land settlement patterns -- Great Britain
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain
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Viking antiquities.
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HISTORY.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Land settlement patterns
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Viking antiquities
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Vikings
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Expansie (macht)
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Scheepvaart.
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Nederzettingen.
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Vikingen.
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Great Britain
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Scandinavië
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West-Europa.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Feestbundels (vorm)
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Crawford, B. E.
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Ballin Smith, Beverley
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Taylor, Simon, 1950-
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Williams, Gareth, 1969-
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| ISBN |
9789047421214 |
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9047421213 |
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1281921629 |
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9781281921628 |
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9786611921620 |
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6611921621 |
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