West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford / edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, B. E.

Ballin Smith, Beverley.

Taylor, Simon, 1950-

Williams, Gareth.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 31.

The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vikings--Great Britain.

Vikings.

Land settlement patterns--Great Britain.

Land settlement patterns.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Viking antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 581 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period. Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.

Contents:

Preliminary material / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams

On reading the icelandic sagas: Approaches to old icelandic texts / Paul Bibire

Becoming scottish in the thirteenth century: The evidence of the chronicle of Melrose / Dauvit Broun

Living on the edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century / Clare Downham

Image and imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘hostage stone’ / Christopher Lowe

Anglo-saxon inscriptions found outside the british isles / Elisabeth Okasha

From Scotland to Normandy: The celtic sea route of the vikings / Élisabeth Ridel

The appearance and personal abilities of gođar, jarlar, and konungar:Iceland, Orkney and Norway / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson

‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter / Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei

‘These people were high-born and thought well of themselves’: The family of Moddan of Dale

The wood beyond the world: Jämtland and the norwegian kings / Alex Woolf

Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the viking age: \'A very difficult thing indeed\' / Lesley Abrams

A norwegian in Durham: An anatomy of a miracle in Reginald of Durham’s libellus de Admirandis Beati Cuthberti / Haki Antonsson , Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti

Irish and armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack

Medieval parish formation in Orkney / Sarah Jane Gibbon

The Church of St. Clement in Oslo / Hans-Emil Lidén

The Shetland Chapel-Sites project 1999–2000 / Christopher D. Morris , Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson

Norwick: Shetland’s first viking settlement? / Beverley Ballin Smith

The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society / James H. Barrett

‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the treasure trove system / Neil G. W. Curtis

Early medieval sculpture from the Faroes: An illustrated catalogue / Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott

Liminality and loss: The material culture of St Serf ‘s priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-Shire, Scotland / Mark A. Hall

Manuring practices in Scotland: Deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record / Jo Mckenzie

Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: Three Wilderness settlements in Shetland / Brian Smith

Governor on antiquarian mission: Christian Pløyen— A faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland / Steffen Stummann Hansen

The scandinavian element Gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen

An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist / Katherine Forsyth

Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides—A way of understanding how the scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? / Peder Gammeltoft

The rock of the irishmen: An early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross / Simon Taylor

The Orkney Papar-names / William P. L. Thomson

Placing Papa Stour in context / Doreen Waugh

Illustrations / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams

General Index / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611921620

9781281921628

1281921629

9789047421214

9047421213

OCLC:

303661833

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004158931.i-614 DOI