{"product_id":"west-over-sea-studies-in-scandinavian-sea-borne-expansion-and-settlement-before-1300-9789004158931","title":"West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period. Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Foreword .. ix Nicholas Brooks  Preface .. xiii List of Contributors .. xv List of Illustrations .. xvii List of Tables .. xxi County Abbreviations .. xxiii  Barbara E. Crawford—A Bibliography .. xxv  PART ONE: HISTORY AND CULTURAL CONTACTS On Reading the Icelandic Sagas: Approaches to Old Icelandic Texts .. 3 Paul Bibire Becoming Scottish in the thirteenth century: the evidence of the Chronicle of Melrose .. 19 Dauvit Broun Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century .. 33 Clare Downham Image and Imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘Hostage Stone’ .. 53 Christopher Lowe Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions found outside the British Isles .. 69 Elisabeth Okasha From Scotland to Normandy: The Celtic Sea Route of the Vikings .. 81 Élisabeth Ridel The appearance and personal abilities of goðar, jarlar, and konungar: Iceland, Orkney and Norway .. 95 Jón Viðar Sigurðsson ‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter .. 111 Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei BALLIN_ ‘These people were high-born and thought well of themselves’: The family of Moddan of Dale .. 129 Gareth Williams The Wood Beyond the World: Jämtland and the Norwegian Kings .. 153 Alex Woolf  PART TWO: THE CHURCH AND THE CULT OF SAINTS Conversion and the Church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age: “A Very Difficult Thing Indeed” .. 169 Lesley Abrams A Norwegian in Durham: An Anatomy of a Miracle in Reginald of Durham’s Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti .. 195 Haki Antonsson, with contributions by Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti Irish and Armenian Ecclesiastics in Medieval Iceland .. 227 Margaret Cormack Medieval Parish Formation in Orkney .. 235 Sarah Jane Gibbon The Church of St. Clement in Oslo .. 251 Hans-Emil Lidén The Shetland Chapel-sites Project 1999–2000 .. 265 Christopher D. Morris, with Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson  PART THREE: ARCHAEOLOGY, MATERIAL CULTURE AND SETTLEMENT Norwick: Shetland’s fi rst Viking settlement? .. 287 Beverley Ballin Smith The Pirate Fishermen: The Political Economy of a Medieval Maritime Society .. 299 James H. Barrett ‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the Treasure Trove system .. 341 Neil G. W. Curtis Early Medieval Sculpture from the Faroes: an illustrated catalogue .. 363 Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott Liminality and Loss: The Material Culture of St Serf ’s Priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, Scotland .. 379 Mark A. Hall Manuring practices in Scotland: deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record .. 401 Jo McKenzie Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: three wilderness settlements in Shetland .. 419 Brian Smith Governor on Antiquarian Mission: Christian Pløyen—a Faroese Link between Copenhagen and Shetland .. 431 Steffen Stummann Hansen  PART FOUR: PLACE-NAMES AND LANGUAGE The Scandinavian element gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw .. 445 Gillian Fellows-Jensen An ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist .. 461 Katherine Forsyth Scandinavian Naming-Systems in the Hebrides—A Way of Understanding how the Scandinavians were in Contact with Gaels and Picts? .. 479 Peder Gammeltoft The Rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross .. 497 Simon Taylor The Orkney Papar-names .. 515 William P. L. Thomson Placing Papa Stour in Context .. 539 Doreen Waugh  General Index .. 555","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210607092055,"sku":"9789004158931","price":193.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/west-over-sea-studies-in-scandinavian-sea-borne-expansion-and-settlement-before-1300-9789004158931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}