Celtic-Norse relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 / edited by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Timothy Bolton.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series:

Northern world ; v. 65.
The northern world, 1569-1462 ; volume 65

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 223 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (1 colour) ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Irish Sea Region -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Vikings -- Irish Sea Region -- Congresses.
Ireland -- Relations -- Scandinavia -- Congresses.
Scandinavia -- Relations -- Ireland -- Congresses.
Vikings -- Ireland -- Congresses.

Contents:

Vikings' settlements in Ireland before 1014 / Clare Downham
Names for the Vikings in Irish annals / C. Etchingham
Saints' cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian influence
Around the Cumberland coast and north of the Solway Firth / Fiona Edmonds
The Kingdom of Man and the earldom of Orkney-some comparisons / Barbara E. Crawford
No soil for saints: why was there no native royal martyr in Man and the Isles? / Ian Beuermann
Slavery, power and cultural identity in the Irish Sea region, 1066-1171 / D. Wyatt
Pagan myth and Christian doctrine / Jan Erik Rekdal
Ceramic and cultural change in the Hebrides AD 500-1300 / Alan Lane
Homeland-strange land-new land. Material and theoretical aspects of defining Norse identity in the Viking age / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad.

Notes:

The genesis of this volume was in a conference held in Oslo University on 3-6 November 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Contributor:

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, 1958-
Bolton, Timothy.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004255117
9789004255111 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004255128 (e-book)

OCLC:

857356635

Publisher Number:

99956940701

Web link:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page

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