Fibula, Fabula, Fact: The Viking Age in Finland

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Were there Vikings in Finland? "Fibula, Fabula, Fact: The Viking Age in Finland" is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion. The nineteen chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines. Discussions are presented from fields including archaeology, folklore studies, genetics, geopolitics, historiography, language history, linguistics, palaeobotany, semiotics and toponymy. Each chapter is intended to help open the resources and the history of discourse of the particular discipline in a way that will be accessible to specialists from other fields, specialists from outside Finland, and also to non-specialist readers and students who may be more generally interested in the topic. Preface: The Project, Goals, Methods and Outcomes 8 Acknowledgements 17 Joonas Ahola & Frog. Approaching the Viking Age in Finland: An Introduction 21 Part I: Time Clive Tolley. Language in Viking Age Finland: An Overview 91 Ville Laakso. The Viking Age in Finnish Archaeology: A Brief Source-Critical Overview 104 Samuli Helama. The Viking Age as a Period of Contrasting Climatic Trends 117 Tuukka Talvio. The Viking Age in Finland: Numismatic Aspects 131 Sirpa Aalto. Viking Age in Finland? - Naming a Period as a Historiographical Problem 139 Petri Kallio. The Diversification of Proto-Finnic 155 Part II: Space Jukka Korpela. Reach and Supra-Local Consciousness in the Medieval Nordic Periphery 175 Mervi Koskela Vasaru. Bjarmaland and Contacts in the Late-Prehistoric and Early-Medieval North 195 Jari-Matti Kuusela. From Coast to Inland: Activity Zones in North Finland during the Iron Age 219 Teija Alenius. Pollen Analysis as a Tool for Reconstructing Viking Age Landscapes 242 Matti Leiviskä. Toponymy as a Source for the Early History of Finland 253 Denis Kuzmin. The Inhabitation of Karelia in the First Millennium AD in the Light of Linguistics 269 Lassi Heininen, Joonas Ahola & Frog. 'Geopolitics' of the Viking Age? - Actors, Factors and Space 296 Part III: People Sami Raninen & Anna Wessman. Finland as a Part of the 'Viking World' 327 Elina Salmela. The (Im)Possibilities of Genetics for Studies of Population History 347 Joonas Ahola. Kalevalaic Heroic Epic and the Viking Age in Finland 361 Kaisa Häkkinen. Finnish Language and Culture of the Viking Age in Finland 387 Johan Schalin. Scandinavian–Finnish Language Contact in the Viking Age in the Light of Borrowed Names 399 Frog. Myth, Mythological Thinking and the Viking Age in Finland 437 Afterword. Joonas Ahola, Frog & Clive Tolley. Vikings in Finland? - Closing Considerations on the Viking Age in Finland 485 Index of Cross-References between Chapters 504 Index of Personal Names 505 Index of Place Names 507 General Index 511