Celtic-Norse relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 / edited by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Timothy Bolton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, 1958-

Bolton, Timothy

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 65.

The northern world, 1569-1462 ; volume 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vikings.

Relations.

Irish Sea Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Irish Sea Region.

Vikings--Irish Sea Region--Congresses.

Ireland--Relations--Scandinavia--Congresses.

Ireland.

Scandinavia--Relations--Ireland--Congresses.

Scandinavia.

Vikings--Ireland--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 223 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (1 colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art historical, religious historical and philological views of the interation and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D. - 1200 A.D. Book jacket.

Contents:

Vikings' settlements in Ireland before 1014 / Clare Downham

Names for the Vikings in Irish annals / C. Etchingham

Saints' cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian influence

Around the Cumberland coast and north of the Solway Firth / Fiona Edmonds

The Kingdom of Man and the earldom of Orkney-some comparisons / Barbara E. Crawford

No soil for saints: why was there no native royal martyr in Man and the Isles? / Ian Beuermann

Slavery, power and cultural identity in the Irish Sea region, 1066-1171 / D. Wyatt

Pagan myth and Christian doctrine / Jan Erik Rekdal

Ceramic and cultural change in the Hebrides AD 500-1300 / Alan Lane

Homeland-strange land-new land. Material and theoretical aspects of defining Norse identity in the Viking age / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad.

Notes:

The genesis of this volume was in a conference held in Oslo University on 3-6 November 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004255117

9789004255111

OCLC:

857356635

Publisher Number:

99956940701