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Vikings and the Danelaw
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A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw.
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Table of contents
- The Thirteenth Viking Congress
- Foreword
- 1 Defining the Danelaw
- 2 In search of the vikings: the problems and the possibilities of interdisciplinary approaches
- 3 The conversion of the Danelaw
- 4 Repton and the ‘great heathen army’, 873-4
- 5 Boundaries and cult centres: Viking burial in Derbyshire
- 6 Pagan Scandinavian burial in the central and southern Danelaw
- 7 Expansion and control: aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian minting south of the Humber
- 8 Anglo-Scandinavian urban development in the East Midlands
- 9 Lincoln in the Viking Age
- 10 New light on the Viking presence in Lincolnshire: the artefactual evidence
- 11 The strange beast that is the English Urnes style
- 12 Five towns funerals: decoding diversity in Danelaw stone sculpture
- 13 The Southwell lintel, its style and significance
- 14 Finding the Vikings: the search for Anglo-Scandinavian rural settlementin the northern Danelaw
- 15 In the steps of the Vikings
- 16 Scandinavian elements in English place-names: some semantic problems
- 17 How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England? Again
- 18 Skaldic verse in Scandinavian England
- 19 Eddic poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian northern England
- 20 Representations of the Danelaw in Middle English literature
- 21 Hereward, the Danelaw and the Victorians
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