West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford /
Crawford, B. E.
Ballin Smith, Beverley.
Taylor, Simon,1950-
Williams, Gareth.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Nicholas Brooks -- Barbara E. Crawford - a bibliography -- On reading the Icelandic sagas : approaches to old Icelandic texts / Paul Bibire -- Becoming Scottish in the thirteenth century : the evidence of the chronicle of Melrose / Dauvit Broun -- Living on the edge : Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century / Clare Downham -- Image and imagination : the Inchmarnock 'hostage stone' / Christopher Lowe -- Anglo-Saxon inscriptions found outside the British Isles / Elisabeth Okasha -- From Scotland to Normandy : the Celtic Sea route of the Vikings / Elisabeth Ridel -- The appearance and personal abilities of goðar, jarlar, and konungar : Iceland, Orkney and Norway / Jón Vidar Sigurdsson -- 'Lords of Norroway' the Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter / Frans-Arne Stylegar, Liv Kjørsvik Schei -- 'These people were high-born and thought well of themselves' : the family of Moddan of Dale / Gareth Williams -- The wood beyond the world : Jämtland and the Norwegian Kings / Alex Woolf -- Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age : "a very difficult thing indeed" / Lesley Abrams -- A Norwegian in Durham : an anatomy of a miracle in Reginald of Durham's Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti / Haki Antonsson, Sally Crumplin, Aidan Conti -- Irish and Armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack -- Medieval Parish formation in Orkney / Sarah Jane Gibbon -- The church of St. Clement in Oslo / Hans-Emil Lidén -- The Shetland Chapel-sites Project 1999-2000 / Christopher D. Morris, Kevin J. Brady, Paul G. Johnson -- Norwick : Shetland's first Viking settlement? / Beverley Ballin Smith -- The pirate fishermen : the political economy of a medieval maritime society / James H. Barrett -- 'Like stray words or letters' the development and workings of the treasure trove system / Neil G. W. Curtis -- Early medieval sculpture from the faroes : an illustrated catalogue / Ian Fisher, Ian G. Scott -- Liminality and loss : the material culture of St. Serf's Priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, Scotland / Mark A. Hall -- Manuring practices in Scotland : deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record / Jo McKenzie -- Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund : three wilderness settlements in Shetland / Brian Smith -- Governor on antiquarian mission : Christian Pløyen - a Faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland / Steffen Stummann Hansen -- The Scandinavian element gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- An ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist / Katherine Forsyth -- Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides - a way of understanding how the Scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? / Peder Gammeltoft -- The Rock of the Irishmen : an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross / Simon Taylor -- The Orkney Papar-names / William P. L. Thomson -- Placing Papa Stour in context / Doreen Waugh.
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