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
part I|330 pages
Viking Age Scandinavia
part I|46 pages
People, society and social institutions
part I|93 pages
Living space
part I|43 pages
Technology and trade
part I|19 pages
Warfare and weaponry
part I|62 pages
Pre-Christian religion and belief
chapter Sixteen 3|4 pages
Rulers as Offspring of Gods and Giantesses: On the Mythology of Pagan Norse Rulership
part I|65 pages
Language, literature and art
part II|279 pages
The Viking Expansion
part II|98 pages
The British Isles
chapter Thirty-two|5 pages
Archaeological Evidence for the Different Expressions of Scandinavian Settlement in Ireland, 840–1100
part II|31 pages
Continental Europe and the Mediterranean
part II|26 pages
The Baltic
part II|66 pages
Russia and the east
part II|56 pages
The North Atlantic
part III|56 pages
Scandinavia Enters the European Stage
part III|24 pages
The coming of Christianity
part III|30 pages
The development of nation states (ríki)