Land, Sea and Home: Settlement in the Viking Period

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The twenty-eight papers in this volume explore the practical life, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organization, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking Period. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction At Home in the Viking Period Scandinavia and Northern Europe Danish Coastal Landing Places and their Relation to Navigation and Trade Viking-age Proto-Urban Centres and their Hinterlands: Some Examples from the Baltic Area Viking-period Pre-Urban Settlements in Russia and Finds of Artefacts of Scandinavian Character Rural Settlement and Landscape Transformations in Northern Russia, A.D. 900–1300 Early Medieval Coinage and Urban Development: A Norwegian Experience Two Viking Hoards from the Former Island of Wieringen (The Netherlands): Viking Relations with Frisia in an Archaeological Perspective Goldsmiths' Tools at Hedeby The Atlantic Provinces Settlement and Acculturation in the Irish Sea Region Viking-age Settlement in Wales and the Evidence from Llanbedrgoch Social and Economic Integration in Viking-age Ireland: The Evidence of the Hoards Royal Fleets in Viking Ireland: The Evidence of Lebor na Cert, A.D. 1050–1150 Beyond War or Peace: The Study of Culture Contact in Viking-age Scotland Spatial Analysis and Cultural Indicators: Viking Settlers at Old Scatness Broch, Shetiand? Cille Pheadair: The Life and Times of a Norse-period Farmstead c. 1000–1300 A Find of Ringerike Art from Bornais in the Outer Hebrides Narrative Functions of Landscape in the Old Icelandic Family Sagas England Jórvík: A Viking-age City Viking-age Settlement in the North-western Countryside: Lifting the Veil? Sedgeford: Excavations of a Rural Settlement in Norfolk Simy Folds: Twenty Years On Post-Roman Upland Architecture in the Craven Dales and the Dating Evidence Timber Buildings without Earth-fast Footings in Viking-age Britain A Push into the Margins? The Development of a Coastal Landscape in North-West Somerset During the Late Ist Millennium A.D. Place-names and the History of Scandinavian Settlement in England Law and Landscape Changing Weaving Styles and Fabric Types: The Scandinavian Influence Saxon Shoes, Viking Sheaths? Cultural Identity in Anglo-Scandinavian York Index