The Viking Age: Ireland and the West – Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005
Edited by John Sheehan and Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Four Courts Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84682-101-1
The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress addressed key issues in the debate, including viking-age Ireland, the colonization of the North Atlantic, weapons and warfare, and the development of urbanism.
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This book, comprising papers by more than fifty of the world’s leading Viking specialists, presents a broad range of ideas and approaches to these studies, supported by archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence.
Based on the Fifteenth Viking Congress, which took place in Cork in 2005, this publication may be regarded as a quinennial review of Viking Studies by its leading proponents.
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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
Ragnarök 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 J. 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
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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 Íslendingabók- Pernille Hermann
Viking elements in Irish towns: Cork and Waterford -Maurice F. Hurley
The warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age – Judith Jesch
The Vikings in Conemara – Eamonn Kelly
Dotted runes: where did they come from? – James E. Knirk
Kirkwall revisited – Raymond Lamb
Viking-Age and Norse poetry 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
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Urbanism and Christianity in Norway- Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
Rebuiling 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 Ǿye
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 & John Naylor
From Scandinavia to Spain: a Viking-Age reliquary in León and its meaning- Else Roesdahl
The sagas and courtly love- Daniel Sävborg
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
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Close ties and long-range relations: the emporia network in early Viking-Age exchange – Søren M. Sindbæck
Ailikn’s wagon and Óðinn’s warriors: the picture son the Gotlandic Andre monuments- Þórgunmur 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 Reykhold, Iceland – Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland – Orri Vésteinsson
Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour: old data and recent research – Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Volker Hilberg, Scen Kalmring & Joachim Schultze
Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level – Patrick F. Wallace
On eið-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
The Viking Age: Ireland and the West – Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005
Edited by John Sheehan and Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Four Courts Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84682-101-1
The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress addressed key issues in the debate, including viking-age Ireland, the colonization of the North Atlantic, weapons and warfare, and the development of urbanism.
This book, comprising papers by more than fifty of the world’s leading Viking specialists, presents a broad range of ideas and approaches to these studies, supported by archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence.
Based on the Fifteenth Viking Congress, which took place in Cork in 2005, this publication may be regarded as a quinennial review of Viking Studies by its leading proponents.
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
Ragnarök 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 J. 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 Íslendingabók- Pernille Hermann
Viking elements in Irish towns: Cork and Waterford -Maurice F. Hurley
The warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age – Judith Jesch
The Vikings in Conemara – Eamonn Kelly
Dotted runes: where did they come from? – James E. Knirk
Kirkwall revisited – Raymond Lamb
Viking-Age and Norse poetry 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- Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
Rebuiling 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 Ǿye
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 & John Naylor
From Scandinavia to Spain: a Viking-Age reliquary in León and its meaning- Else Roesdahl
The sagas and courtly love- Daniel Sävborg
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. Sindbæck
Ailikn’s wagon and Óðinn’s warriors: the picture son the Gotlandic Andre monuments- Þórgunmur 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 Reykhold, Iceland – Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland – Orri Vésteinsson
Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour: old data and recent research – Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Volker Hilberg, Scen Kalmring & Joachim Schultze
Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level – Patrick F. Wallace
On eið-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
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