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The North Sea Earls: The Shetland/Viking Archaeological Expedition

By Ian Morrison

Book information

Publisher
Gentry Books
Year
1973
ISBN
0856140287, 9780856140280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19524343 bytes)
Pages
148\170
Topic
History Archaeology
Time added
2021-05-28 23:16:44

Description

The Earls who give this book its title were Norsemen. "Orkneyinga Saga" tells how their Viking longships were wrecked in the Shetland Islands north of Scotland, in the middle of the twelfth century. The book is not an academic treatise on them, but an informal account of detective work carried out in Shetland by an expedition made up of amateur divers with some professional leadership. They looked into the circumstances of the wrecking, and followed one of the Earls, Rognvald, to Sumburgh at the southern tip of the islands, where the Viking settlement of Jarlshof stands as one of the most remarkable archaeological sites of the British Isles. There, soon after the wreck, Rognvald again found himself in peril on the sea. Chapter 1. The Expedition 13 Chapter 2. Shetland Today — and the Scandinavian Legacy 22 Chapter 3. The Earls set sail 52 Chapter 4. Shipwreck and Saga 78 Chapter 5. Diver search 90 Chapter 6. The Earl Incognito and the Tide-Race — Detective work at Jarlshof 111 Chapter 7. Reconstructing a Viking Seascape: Sumburgh at the Time of the Earls 127 Chapter 8. Conclusion 140 Bibliography (Books and Records) 144

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