The Scar Boat Burial — and the Missing Decades of the Early Viking Age in Orkney and Shetland
Olwyn Owen
This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and rest Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists twenty-five papers international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history linguistics. The is innovative three respects: (i) transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both viking medieval periods; (ii) examining ways which mainland influenced (e.g. kingship, law social organization; classical continental literary traditions); (iii) synthesising all material for an English-language readership first time. broader timespan investigation illustrates changing nature gradual integration into European society: 1350 was no longer a heathen outpost periphery known world, but integral part Western Christendom. cultural impact Scandinavia, frequently mediated through channels, although less dramatic, shown have had more significant long-term than earlier raids. structured around following sections: Historical Archaeological Evidence [Scandinavian] Contact with British Isles; Linguistic Impact Scandinavian Settlement; Christianity Scandinavia; Textual Contact, Conflict, Coexistence.
Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe