The Viking World

by James Graham-CampbellForward by Sir David M Wilson

• ISBN13: 9780711218000
• ISBN10: 0711218005
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

The Vikings dominated Western Europe from the ninth to the eleventh centuries.n this account of the Viking world, every aspect of Viking life is examined.mportant chapters on ships, runes and religion have been contributed bypecialist authors, and the text is complemented by illustrations, includingaps and reconstruction drawings. Photographs, many of them especiallyommissioned, portray the brilliant products of the Vikings' culture and theeauty and harshness of the natural world they faced.

Author Biography

James Graham-Campbell is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of London and a specialist in Viking and late Celtic archaeology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(2)
Sir David M. Wilson
Pagan People and Their Lands	8	(12)
Background to the Viking Age	10	(10)
Viking Warriors	20	(16)
Salt-water bandits	22	(2)
The equipment of the warriors	24	(2)
Viking raids on Britain	26	(5)
The Frankish Empire and Europe	31	(4)
Return to England	35	(1)
Ships, Shipwrights and Seamen	36	(28)
Professor Sean McGrail
Sources of Evidence	38	(4)
The ships and boats	42	(2)
The Viking ship: a visual glossary	44	(2)
Ship sizes and shapes	46	(4)
Preparing the timber	50	(2)
Shipbuilding tools	52	(2)
Building methods	54	(5)
Performance of Viking ships	59	(5)
Land-seekers	64	(22)
The first explorers	66	(2)
Orkney and Shetland	68	(2)
The settlement at Jarlshof	70	(1)
The Hebrides	71	(1)
The Isle of Man	72	(2)
Ireland, Wales and England	74	(2)
The Faeroes	76	(2)
Iceland	78	(2)
The Stong farmhouse	80	(2)
Greenland and Vinland	82	(4)
Merchantmen	86	(26)
Trade and towns	88	(4)
Hedeby	92	(4)
Birka	96	(2)
Kaupang	98	(2)
York and Dublin	100	(2)
Town crafts and industries	102	(6)
The eastern routes	108	(2)
The silver trade	110	(2)
Home Life	112	(18)
Clothing and jewellery	114	(6)
Weaving and cloth designs	120	(2)
Household activities	122	(5)
The farmer and smith	127	(2)
Travel	129	(1)
Viking Art	130	(24)
Art and ornament	132	(2)
The Oseberg carvings	134	(2)
The 'gripping-beast' motif	136	(2)
Woodcarving and painting	138	(2)
Metalworkers of the Borre style	140	(2)
The Jellinge style	142	(2)
The Mammen style	144	(2)
Stone sculpture	146	(2)
The Ringerike style	148	(2)
The Urnes style	150	(2)
Late Viking art in England and Ireland	152	(2)
Rune-masters and Skalds	154	(18)
Professor R. I. Page
The Viking script	156	(4)
Runic finds in Scandinavia and overseas	160	(4)
Runes recording Viking activities	164	(3)
A cultural record	167	(5)
From Odin to Christ	172	(22)
Professor Christine Fell
Paganism	174	(4)
The worship of Odin	178	(2)
The worship of Thor	180	(2)
Other deities	182	(2)
The Sigurd legend and the world's end	184	(2)
Pagan to Christian	186	(2)
Christianity	188	(6)
Nation-states	194	(20)
Government and kings	196	(4)
Royal Jelling	200	(2)
The Viking fortresses	202	(6)
Defence and communications	208	(3)
Scandinavian new towns	211	(1)
Churches	212	(2)
Bibliography	214	(1)
Index	215	(5)
Acknowledgments	220