The A to Z of the Vikings 4 ppsx

... •11 The Dictionary 17 – A – ABBASID CALIPHATE. The Abbasids were an Arab dynasty, de- scended from al-Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet Mohammed. They displaced the ruling Umayyad dynasty and came ... which it lasted and across the vast distances of Scandinavia. The only real agreement today is that many different fac- tors played a part in triggering this wave of outwar...

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... Fyrkat-Hobro Fyrkatvej 37b DK-9500 Hobro Uppsala (Gamla) Gamla Uppsala Historiskt Centrum Disavägen SE-7 54 40 Uppsala Visby, Gotland Historical Museum of Gotland (Gotlands Fornsal)* Strandgatan ... Scandinavian studies and assistant director of European Studies at the University of Hull. Her research interests are in the Viking-Age and early medieval history of Britain and Scand...

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... Buchanan, 2009. 60. The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater, by Jan Sjåvik, 2009. 61. The A to Z of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif, by Jean Michaud, 2009. 62. The A to Z of ... Quanchi and John Robson, 2009. 48 . The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth, 2009. 49 . The A to Z...

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... dictionary is, of course, organized alphabetically, but when it comes to the Vikings, this is not as easy a task as it may sound: there are a num- ber of additional characters in the Scandinavian and ... conventions of the Scandina- vian and Icelandic languages, I have chosen to anglicize these charac- ters. Thus, å and ä, are treated simply as the letter a; æ as the...

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... dictionary will actually focus on the archae- ological, art historical, epigraphical, historical, linguistic, and literary ev- idence for Scandinavia and Scandinavians in the Viking Age. It has also been ... that they spent much time there. At the beginning of the Viking Age, Iceland was of course not part of the Scandinavian world, but it was colonized by a Scandinavian- sp...

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... Poet and ambassador from Andalusia in Spain sent by Abdurrhaman II, Moorish emir of Cordoba, to the court of the king of the Majus in the North. Al-Ghazal’s journey is said to have taken place ... Slavonic and Scandinavian languages. ÆLFGIFU OF NORTHAMPTON. Known as Alfiva in Scandinavia. Ælfgifu belonged to an aristocratic Mercian (see Mercia) family and was the daugh...

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... (group 1). They cover the history of the part of the Frankish or Carolingian kingdom that lay to the east of the River Rhine and that later became Germany. There are three main manuscript traditions, ... example, in 845 , one attack was recorded on Hamburg and three on Frisia, and the Vikings were paid off by Charles the Bald in the same year, after they sailed up...

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... family came to be known by the name Laxdale and was the subject of a 13th-century saga, Laxdæla Saga. – B – BAFFIN ISLAND. See HELLULAND. BALDER (ON Baldr). God of the Æsir family. Balder was ... Viking-Age pagan burial from the southern parish of Arbory on the Isle of Man. The burial mound contained the remains of a man and a woman, although the grave goods...

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... of a chieftain (see go ðð i) and to accompany him to the springtime assembly and to either pay a thing-attendance tax or to at- tend the Althing with their chieftain each summer. These laws also stated ... tutor and is characterized by William as a “very deceitful man.” Together, they attacked the Spanish (see Spain), southern French, and North African coasts, and the...

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... city, also refer to the attacks by Askold and Dir. From the end of the 10th century, the emperor of Byzantium had a famous Scandi- navian bodyguard, known as the Varangian Guard, which attracted mercenaries ... Byzantium was the capital of the eastern half of the Roman Empire and was still the center of a large eastern empire in the Viking Age. It was visit...

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