Scandinavian Britain
Author: William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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The Vikings in Britain
Author: Henry Loyn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1995-02-17
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0631187111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from recent archaeological and linguistic evidence, as well as more traditional literary and narrative sources, the author distinguishes between the initial phase of migrations in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the secondary period of settlement up to c. 1100 AD. He emphasizes, too, the differences in nature and intensity of the Viking impact on the societies that were slowly developing into the historic kingdoms of England and Scotland, and the more complex political structures of Wales and Ireland. Throughout the book, the effects of the Scandinavian invasions on Britain are set within the wider European context.
Scandinavian Britain (Classic Reprint)
Author: W. G. Collingwood
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781330810507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Scandinavian Britain In the part of this work for which I am responsible, that is to say from page 43 onward, kind assistance in proof-reading has been given by the Rev. Edmund McClure, Secretary to the S.P.C.K., and by Mr. Albany F. Major, Editor to the Viking Club. The chapters on Northumbria (pp. 119-181) have been read by Mr. William Brown, F.S.A., and the chapter on Orkney by Mr. Alfred W. Johnston, F.S.A. Scot., Editor of Orkney and Shetland Old Lore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
River Kings
Author: Cat Jarman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1643138707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Scandinavian Kings in the British Isles, 850-880
Author: Alfred P. Smyth
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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Scandinavian Britain
Author: William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781230208343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... II. THE DANELAW I. THE AGE OF ALFRED That part of Britain which the Danes conquered in the days of King DEGREESElfred was called in Anglo-Saxon Denalagu, the district in which the Danes' law prevailed. The word lagu in the sense of " laws" comes from the Scandinavian log, which in its secondary use meant not only "laws," but the group of people who were ruled by a given code. Gulathings log, or Thranda Kg, came to be almost geographical expressions for the country which owned the rulings of the Gulathing, or the neighbourhood of Trondhjem. Hence the form "Danelaw," used by recent historians as a convenient rendering of Denalagu, is not misleading, beside being more readable than the hybrid "Danelagh." King Alfred's life covers the period of this conquest, the second half of the ninth century. After the tentative attacks of the first sixteen years, came the invasion of the Great Army, which created the Danelaw, followed by the futile attempt of Hastein (Hasting) to settle in Alfred's realm. By the year 900 the ethnological map of England had been drawn on lines which last, with alterations in details only, to this day. The story is one of stirring deeds on both sides. If we admire the heroic defence of the Saxon king, we cannot forget that most of us who form the English nation have in our veins more than a little of the Viking blood. We owe our existence as much to one side as to the other, and it is a false patriotism and a mistaken view of history which asks us to give our sympathies exclusively to either party in this struggle of a thousand years ago. To tell the story fully in the limits of this work is impossible; we must, however, sketch the course of events in order to make the results intelligible. When DEGREESEthelred, the fourth son of...
Scandinavian Britain
Author: William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015875968
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Angevin Britain and Scandinavia
Author: Henry Goddard Leach
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 474
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Danes in Wessex
Author: Ryan Lavelle
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1782979328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not traditionally associated with them. Here, a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. While there may not have been the same degree of impact, discernible particularly in place-names and archaeology, as in those areas of Britain which had substantial influxes of Scandinavian settlers, Wessex was a major theater of the Viking wars in the reigns of Alfred and Æthelred Unræd. Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multidisciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced. The papers raise wider questions too, such as when did aggressive Vikings morph into more acceptable Danes, and what issues of identity were there for natives and incomers in a province whose founders were believed to have also come from North Sea areas, if not from parts of Denmark itself? Readers can continue for themselves aspects of these broader debates that will be stimulated by this fascinating and significant series of studies by both established scholars and new researchers.
An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland
Author: Jens Jakob Asmussen Worsaae
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 1852
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"My aim in it has been to convey a juster and less prejudiced notion than prevails at present respecting the Danish and Norwegian conquests." -Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians (1852) An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians in England, Scotland and Ireland (1852) by Jens Warsaae, was based on his research into the Scandinavian invasions of the European mainland. During the 10th century, the European mainland was invaded by Norse settlers from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who intermarried with native tribes and came to be known as "Normans." While their influence on the history of France was significant, it was even stronger in England, which the Normans conquered in the 11th century. Warsaae's book, commissioned by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, was his attempt to revise the impressions that the 19th century British had of the effects of the Norman conquests on England. This replica of the original text is accompanied by numerous woodcuts.
