The Viking Age Ireland and the West: Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005

by Sheehan, John; Corrain, Donnchadh O

• ISBN13: 9781846821011
• ISBN10: 1846821010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-09
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

"This book comprises papers by Irish and overseas scholars on aspects of the Viking Age relating to Ireland and the western Viking world. The contributions focus on Viking-age archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, numismatics, placenames and runo

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xvi
The Fifteenth Viking Congress	p. xxi
Members & Associates	p. xxii
Congress Diary	p. xxv
Conversion and the Church in Viking-Age Ireland	p. 1
Runic inscriptions and Viking-Age Ireland	p. 11
The Dunmore Cave [2] hoard and the role of coins in the tenth-century Hiberno-Scandinavian economy	p. 19
Ragnarök and the stones of York	p. 47
Unsung heroes: the Irish and the Viking wars	p. 60
Peaceful wars and scientific invaders: Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands	p. 66
Laithlinn, 'Fair Foreigners' and 'Dark Foreigners': the identity and provenance of Vikings in ninth-century Ireland	p. 80
Place-names as evidence for urban settlements in Britain in the Viking Period	p. 89
Ribe: continuity or discontinuity from the eighth to the twelfth century?	p. 97
Norwegian crosses in the Hebrides and Shetland?	p. 107
Late Viking-Age runestones in Uppland: some gender aspects	p. 113
Weapons and warfare in Viking-Age Ireland	p. 124
The Suffolk Street sword: further notes on the College Green cemetery, Dublin	p. 136
Who were the Papar? Typological structures in Íslendingabók	p. 145
Viking elements in Irish towns: Cork and Waterford	p. 154
The warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age	p. 165
The Vikings in Connemara	p. 174
Dotted runes: where did they come from?	p. 188
Kirkwall revisited	p. 199
Viking-Age and Norse pottery in the Hebrides	p. 204
Viking-Age queens and the formation of identity	p. 217
The ledung and the continuity of warfare from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: the example of Sweden	p. 227
The baptism of Harald Bluetooth	p. 234
King Magnus Bareleg's adventures in the West: the making of a King's Saga	p. 240
Urbanism and Christianity in Norway	p. 248
Rebuilding the 'city of angels': Muirchertach Ua Briain and Glendalough, c. 1096-IIII	p. 258
Culture clashes? The human remains from the Wood Quay excavations	p. 271
Surtshellir: a fortified outlaw cave in West Iceland	p. 283
Women in early towns	p. 298
Bridging the distribution gap: inscribed swords from Denmark	p. 309
Ninth-century Viking entries in the Irish annals: no 'forty years' rest'	p. 322
The metal detector and the Viking Age in England	p. 338
From Scandinavia to Spain: a Viking-Age reliquary in León and its meaning	p. 353
The sagas and courtly love	p. 361
Life and death among the Picts and Vikings at Westness	p. 369
Colonel Sempronius Stretton and the reprovenancing of a Viking-Age hoard	p. 380
Weapons and warfare in Icelandic place-names	p. 390
The Finglas burial: archaeology and ethnicity in Viking-Age Dublin	p. 402
The first phase of Viking activity in Ireland: archaeological evidence from Dublin	p. 418
Close ties and long-range relations: the emporia network in early Viking-Age exchange	p. 430
Ailikn's wagon and Óðinn's warriors: the pictures on the Gotlandic Ardre monuments	p. 441
Ulfberht revisited: a classification	p. 450
Toftanes and the early Christianity of the Faroe Islands	p. 465
Cosmic aspects of sanctuaries in Viking-Age Scandinavia with comparisons to the West-Slavic area	p. 474
The making of a centre: the case of Reykholt, Iceland	p. 483
Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland	p. 494
Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour: old data and recent research	p. 511
Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level	p. 525
On eið-names in Orkney and other North Atlantic islands	p. 545
Textiles that work for their living: a late eleventh-century cloth from Cork, Ireland	p. 555
Index	p. 565
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