The A to Z of the Vikings 26 pps

... 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 ... Fyrkat-Hobro Fyrkatvej 37b DK-9500 Hobro Uppsala (Gamla) Gamla Uppsala Historiskt Centrum Disavägen SE-754 40 Uppsala Visby, Gotland Historical Museum of Gotland (Gotlands F...

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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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... •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 8 65. Alfred had married Eahlswith (d. 902), the daughter of a Mer- cian ealdorman, in 868, probably as part of a West-Saxon-Mercian al- liance made in that year after...

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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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... 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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... 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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... peak in the eighth century, the town had perhaps as many as 2,000 inhabi- tants living and working in an area of more than 60 hectares. A mint was established at Dorestad as early as 630, and ... The size and wealth of the town made it a favorite target for Viking raiders after the first recorded raid in 834, and Frankish annals (see Annals of St-Bertin and Annals of Ful...

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... continuous history of Norway. The four main sagas are the Longest Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (see Olaf Tryggvason), the Separate Saga of St. Olaf (see Sagas of St. Olaf), Sverri’s Saga, and the Saga of Hákon ... between the islanders and the kings of Norway. The prominence of the cunning pagan Thrand in the saga’s narrative has led some translators and editors to...

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... counties of Östergötland and Västergötland, around Lakes Vänern and Vättern. The inhabitants of this area were known as the Götar (ON Gautar), and they were separated from their Svear (see Svealand) ... neighboring area to the pirate Har- ald.” He also granted an area in southern Frisia to Harald’s brother, Rurik, who had seized Dorestad in 850, in return for his agreeing to re...

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... that, a story or fairy tale. There are about 30 surviving examples of Sagas of Ancient Times, and the most well known of these are Völ- sunga Saga and the Saga of Hrólfr Kraki. SAGAS OF THE ICELANDERS ... Íslendingasögur). The so- called Sagas of the Icelanders or Family Sagas are perhaps the best known of the sagas and include such classics as Egil’s Saga and Nj...

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