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The A to Z of the Vikings 9 potx
... 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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... 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 Scandinavia, particularly ... Collections
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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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... this area vary considerably.
There are larger tracts of flat, arable lands in Sweden than there are in
Norway, but also much uncultivable marshland and forest. Communi-
cations with inland areas ... 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-
speaking popu...
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... •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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... 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 ... in
865. Alfred had married Eahlswith (d. 90 2), the daughter of a Mer-
cian ealdorman, in 868, probably as part of a West-Saxon-Mercian al-
liance made in that year afte...
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... Jutland. In
particular, archaeological evidence reveals that the first phase of
the Danevirke fortification across the base of the Jutland Penin-
sula, the construction of the Kanhave Canal on the ... Meuse, and
suffered defeat at the hands of the Franks and the Bavarians; and in
891 , another defeat was inflicted on the Northmen at their camp at
Louvain on the...
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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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