Williamsburg Regional Library

Vikings, life and legend, edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, and Matthias Wemhoff

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-259) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Vikings

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edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, and Matthias Wemhoff

life and legend

In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created a cultural network that spanned four continents: from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Viking Age was a period of major change as a result of the Vikings<U+2019> impact on neighboring areas and the introduction of external influences into Scandinavia. This book explores Viking culture from a global perspective, examining the influences of their varied contacts from around the world and how Viking Scandinavia drew from both Christian Europe and the Islamic world

Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams ; Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams ; Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen ; Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams ; The way of the warrior / Neil Price ; Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland ; Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams -- Power & aristocracy / Anne Pedersen ; Great halls and palaces / Matthias Wemhoff ; The royal monuments of Jelling / Anne Pedersen ; Neighbours along the southern Baltic coast / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Belief & ritual / Neil Price ; The Fyrkat woman / Peter Pentz and Neil Price ; Ritual sites at Lake Tissø / Lars Jørgensen ; The Oseberg ship and ritual burial / Jan Bill -- Ships & the Vikings / Peter Pentz ; Roskilde 6 / Jan Bill ; Conservation of Roskilde 6 / Kristiane Straetkvern

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