West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford /
West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford /
edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- 1 online resource (xxix, 581 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- The northern world, v. 31 1569-1462 ; .
- Northern world ; v. 31. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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). 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). 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).
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.
English.
9789047421214 (electronic bk.) 9047421213 (electronic bk.) 1281921629 9781281921628 9786611921620 6611921621
Vikings--Great Britain.
Land settlement patterns--Great Britain.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain.
Viking antiquities.
Vikings--Grande-Bretagne.
Colonisation intérieure--Types--Grande-Bretagne.
Fouilles (Archéologie)--Grande-Bretagne.
Antiquités vikings.
HISTORY.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Land settlement patterns.
Viking antiquities.
Vikings.
Expansie (macht)
Scheepvaart.
Nederzettingen.
Vikingen.
Great Britain.
Scandinavië
West-Europa.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Electronic books.
Feestbundels (vorm)
Festschriften.
DL65 / .W47 2007eb
948.022
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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). 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). 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).
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.
English.
9789047421214 (electronic bk.) 9047421213 (electronic bk.) 1281921629 9781281921628 9786611921620 6611921621
Vikings--Great Britain.
Land settlement patterns--Great Britain.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain.
Viking antiquities.
Vikings--Grande-Bretagne.
Colonisation intérieure--Types--Grande-Bretagne.
Fouilles (Archéologie)--Grande-Bretagne.
Antiquités vikings.
HISTORY.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Land settlement patterns.
Viking antiquities.
Vikings.
Expansie (macht)
Scheepvaart.
Nederzettingen.
Vikingen.
Great Britain.
Scandinavië
West-Europa.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Electronic books.
Feestbundels (vorm)
Festschriften.
DL65 / .W47 2007eb
948.022