Research Catalog

Title

The Viking age : Ireland and the West : papers from the proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005 / John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin, editors ; Shannon Lewis-Simpson, editorial assistant.

Author

Viking Congress (15th : 2005 : Cork, Ireland)

Publication

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sheehan, John (John G.)
• Ó Corráin, Donnchadh.

Description

xxviii, 569 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Subjects

• Vikings > Congresses
• Civilization, Viking > Congresses
• Vikings > Ireland > Congresses
• Viking antiquities > Congresses

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Conversion and the church in Viking-age Ireland / Lesley Abrams -- Runic inscriptions and Viking-age Ireland / Michael Barnes, Jan Ragnar Hagland -- The Dunmore Cave [2] hoard and the role of coins in the tenth-century Hiberno-Scandinavian economy / Kristin Bornholdt Collins -- Ragnarok and the stones of York / Paul C. Buckland -- Unsung heroes : the Irish and the Viking wars / Howard B. Clarke -- Peaceful wars and scientific invaders : Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands / Kevin F. Edwards, Douglas B. Borthwick -- Laithlinn, 'fair foreigners' and 'dark foreigners' : the identity and provenance of Vikings in ninth-century Ireland / Colmán Etchingham -- Place-names as evidence for urban settlements in Britain in the Viking Period / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- Ribe : continuity or discontinuity from the eighth to the twelfth century? / Claus Feveile -- Norwegian crosses in the Hebrides and Shetland? / Ian Fisher -- Late Viking-age runestones in Uppland : some gender aspects / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- Weapons and warfare in Viking-age Ireland / Andrew Halpin -- The Suffolk Street sword : further notes on the College Green cemetery, Dublin / Stephen H. Harrison -- Who were the Papar? Typological structures in Islendingabok / Pernille Hermann -- Viking elements in Irish towns : Cork and Waterford / Maurice G. Hurley -- The warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age / Judith Jesch -- The Vikings in Connemara / Eamonn Kelly -- Dotted runes : where did they come from? / James E. Knirk -- Kirkwall revisited / Raymond Lamb -- Viking-Age and Norse pottery in the Hebrides / Alan M. Lane -- Viking-Age queens and the formation of identity / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The ledung and the continuity of warfare from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages : the example of Sweden / Thomas Lindkvist -- The baptism of Harald Bluetooth / Niels Lund -- King Magnus Bareleg's adventures in the West : the making of a King's saga / Else Mundal -- Urbanism and Christianity in Norway / Sæbjøg Walaker Nordeide -- Rebuilding the 'city of angels' : Muirchertach Ua Briain and Glendalough, c. 1096-1111 / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- Culture clashes? The human remains from the Wood Quay excavations / Barra O'Donnabhain -- Surtshellir : a fortified outlaw cave in West Iceland / Guðmundur Ólafsson, Kevin P. Smith, Thomas McGovern -- Women in early towns / Ingvild Øye -- Bridging the distribution gap : inscribed swords from Denmark / Anne Pedersen -- Ninth-century Viking entries in the Irish annals : no 'forty years'rest / Emer Purcell -- The metal detector and the Viking Age in England / Julian D. Richards -- From Scandinavia to Spain : a Biking-Age reliquary in Leon and its meaning / Else Roesdahl -- The sagas and courtly love / Daniel Roesdahl -- Life and death among the Picts and Vikings at Westness / Berit J. Sellevold -- Colonel Sempronius Stretton and the reprovenancing of a Viking-Age hoard / John Sheehan -- Weapons and warfare in Icelandic place-names / Svavar Sigmundsson -- The Finglas burial : archaeology and ethnicity in Viking-Age Dublin / Maeve Sikora -- The first phase of Viking activity in Ireland : archaeological evidence from Dublin / Linzi Simpson -- Close ties and long-range relations : the emporia network in early Viking-age exchange / Søren M. Sindbæk -- Ailikn's wagon and Odinn's warriors : the pictures on the Gotlandic Ardre monuments / þórgunnur Snædal -- Ulfberht revisited : a classification / Anne Stalsberg -- Toftanes and the early Christianity of the Faroe Islands / Steffen Stummann Hansen -- Cosmic aspects of sanctuaries in Viking-Age Scandinavia with comparisons to the West-Slavic area / Olof Sundqvist -- The making of a centre : the case of Reykholt, Iceland / Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir-- Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland / Orri Véstinsson -- Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour : old data and recent research / Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Volker Hilberg, Sven Kalmring, Joachim Schultze -- Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level / Patrick F. Wallace -- On eid-names in Orkney and other North Atlantic islands / Doreen Waugh -- Textiles that work for their living : a late eleventh-century cloth from Cork, Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett.

Call Number

JFE 10-4644

ISBN

• 9781846821011 (hbk.)
• 1846821010 (hbk.)

OCLC

573397579

Conference

Viking Congress (15th : 2005 : Cork, Ireland)

Title

The Viking age : Ireland and the West : papers from the proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005 / John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin, editors ; Shannon Lewis-Simpson, editorial assistant.

Imprint

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sheehan, John (John G.)

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-4644