The A to Z of the Vikings 34 ppsx
The A to Z of the Vikings 34 ppsx
... Viking Age England. Much of
the work on language and place-names in Scandinavia is published
in the Scandinavian languages, and readers are advised to consult
Gillian Fellows-Jensen’s article ... brings together a number of Sawyer’s theories about the historical
significance of 2,307 Viking-Age rune-stones from Scandinavia and cen-
ters around her main argument that the ent...
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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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... Buchanan, 2009.
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The A to Z of the Vikings 2 pot
... 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 ... 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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... 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...