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.

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 archeology, history, linguistics, literature, numismatics, placenames and runology.

Subject

• Vikings > Congresses
• Vikings > Ireland > Congresses
• Viking antiquities > Congresses
• Civilization, Viking > Congresses
• Civilization, Viking > Ireland > Congresses
• Ireland > History > To 1172 > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

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

OCLC

• 573397579
• SCSB-12724562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library