Title: Vikings on the Rhine : recent research on early medieval relations between the Rhinelands and Scandinavia /
Authors: Simek, Rudolf, 1954-; Engel, Ulrike
Publisher: Fassbaender,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Vikings Rhine River Valley.; Vikings Netherlands.; Vikings Germany.; Eighth century.; Ninth century.
Contents: Introduction -- The emergence of the Viking age : reasons and triggers / Rudolf Simek -- How the Vikings got to the Rhine : a historical-geographical survey over the Rhinelands in the early Middle Ages / Thomas Himstedt -- Shipbuilding and navigation in the Rhine delta during the late Viking age / Aleydis Van de Moortel -- Maritime defence of the Carolingian empire / Ekkehard Eickhoff -- Scattered across the waterside : Viking finds from the Netherlands / Annemarieke Willemsen -- Urban settlements and sacral topography in the Rhineland at the time of the Viking raids / Bernd Päffgen -- The Vikings in Zutphen (Netherlands) : military organisation and early town development after the Viking raid in 882 / Michel Groothedde -- traiecti muros heu! : the Bishop of Utrecht during after the Viking invasions of Frisia (834-925) / Kaj van Vliet -- Pottery production in Badorf and Walberberg during the Carolingian period / Christoph Keller -- The Vikings in the Rhinelands according to Latin sources / Sabine Walther.