Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence

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This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods; (ii) by examining the ways in which mainland Europe influenced Scandinavia (e.g. kingship, law and social organization; and classical and continental literary traditions); and (iii) by synthesising all the material for an English-language readership for the first time. The broader timespan of investigation illustrates the changing nature of contact and the gradual integration of Scandinavia into European society: by 1350 Scandinavia was no longer a heathen outpost on the periphery of the known world, but an integral part of Western Christendom. The cultural impact of mainland Europe on Scandinavia, frequently mediated through religious channels, although less dramatic, is shown to have had a more significant long-term impact than the earlier viking raids. The volume is structured around the following sections: Historical and Archaeological Evidence for [Scandinavian] Contact with the British Isles; Evidence for the Linguistic Impact of Scandinavian Settlement; Evidence for the Impact of Christianity on Scandinavia; and Textual Evidence for Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Contributors”, “Introduction”, “Acknowledgements”, “A Note on Spelling and Referencing”, “Abbreviations”), p. i Free Access The Scar Boat Burial — and the Missing Decades of the Early Viking Age in Orkney and Shetland, p. 3 Olwyn Owen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4097 Britons, Saxons, and Vikings in the South-West, p. 35 Derek Gore https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4098 Anglo-Danish Contact across the North Sea in the Eleventh Century: A Survey of the Danish Archaeological Evidence, p. 43 Anne Pedersen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4099 The Scandinavian Heritage of the Lordship of the Isles, p. 69 David H. Caldwell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4100 Contact or Conflict? What Can We Learn from the Island-Names of the Northern Isles?, p. 87 Peder Gammeltoft https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4101 Norse Topographical Settlement Names on the Western Littoral of Scotland, p. 97 Arne Kruse https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4102 The Norse Place-Names of Kintyre, p. 109 Andrew Jennings https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4103 The Scandinavian Languages in the British Isles: The Runic Evidence, p. 121 Michael P. Barnes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4104 Scandinavian Settlement in the British Isles and Normandy: What the Place-Names Reveal, p. 137 Gillian Fellows-Jensen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4105 The Linguistic Heritage of the Scandinavians in Normandy, p. 149 Elisabeth Ridel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4106 New Perspectives on the Christianization of Scandinavia and the Organization of the Early Church, p. 163 Stefan Brink https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4107 From Birsay to Brattahlíð: Recent Perspectives on Norse Christianity in Orkney, Shetland, and the North Atlantic Region, p. 177 Christopher D. Morris https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4108 Early Monasticism in Scandinavia, p. 197 Tore Nyberg https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4109 Norwegians and Europe: The Theme of Marriage and Consanguinity in Early Norwegian Law, p. 209 Jan Ragnar Hagland https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4110 Denmark and the Holy War: A Redefinition of a Traditional Pattern of Conflict 1147–1169, p. 219 Janus Møller Jensen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4111 The Adaptation of an Established European Visual Language in Denmark from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries, p. 237 Axel Bolvig https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4112 Vikings on the European Continent in the Late Viking Age, p. 255 Judith Jesch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4113 The Image of the Viking in Anglo-Norman Literature, p. 269 Brian J. Levy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4114 The Danish Monarchy and the Kingdom of Germany, 1197-1319: The Evidence of Middle High German Poetry, p. 289 Alan V. Murray https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4115 The Politics of Genealogies in Sturlunga saga, p. 309 Úlfar Bragason https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4116 Narrative, Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence: Norwegians in Thirteenth-Century Iceland, p. 323 Chris Callow https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4117 Literacy and ‘Runacy’ in Medieval Scandinavia, p. 333 Terje Spurkland https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4118 What’s Hecuba to Them? Medieval Scandinavian Encounters with Classical Antiquity, p. 345 Randi Eldevik https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4119 On the Far Edge of Dry Land: Scandinavian and European Culture in the Middle Ages, p. 355 Sverre Bagge https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.4120