The A to Z of the Vikings 10 doc

... Staraja Ladoga) and the rivers Lovat and Volkhov in the north or via the Baltic Sea in the east. The most important Scandinavian trading stations and settlements in Russia lay along the northern ... place in Norway, and Snorri Sturluson associates this with the pagan rituals performed at Gamla Uppsala in his Ynglinga Saga on the basis of the skaldic poem, Ynglingatal. The...

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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 379 An asterisk indicates large or important collections. CANADA L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland L’Anse Aux Meadows Museum Parks Canada Canadian Heritage PO Box 70...

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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 ... 2009. 71. The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater, by Fran Ma- son, 2009. 72. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, by Al...

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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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... Constantine may have been waiting to add material relating to Bulgaria, Russia, Khazaria, and Germany be- fore attempting a second reorganization of the documents. While some of the chapters are ... founded to administer Christian law. The official end of each Althing was marked by the beating of weapons, vápnatak, a word that also appears to have given its name t...

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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 ... to Scandinavia and the Baltic and made him Archbishop of Hamburg (the see was amalgamated with that of Bremen and elevated to the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen...

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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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