The Viking Age

Ireland and the West: Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005

John Sheehan, Donnchadh O Corrain

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829161
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

This book comprises papers by Irish and overseas scholars on aspects of the Viking Age relating to Ireland and the western Viking world. The contributions focus on Viking-age archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, numismatics, placenames, and runology. The major themes explored in the book include: Viking-age Ireland, the colonization of the North Atlantic, weapons and warfare, and the development of urbanism. Based on the XVth Viking Congress, which took place in Cork in 2005, this publication may be regarded as a quinennial review of Viking Studies by its leading proponents.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• The fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork 2005
• Members and associates
• Congress diary
• 1. Conversion and the Church in Viking-Age Ireland
• 2. Runic inscriptions and Viking-Age Ireland
• 3. The Dunmore Cave [2] hoard and the role of coins in the tenth-century Hiberno-Scandinavian economy
• 4. Ragnarök and the stones of York
• 5. Unsung heroes: the Irish and the Viking wars
• 6. Peaceful wars and scientific invaders: Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands
• 7. Laithlinn, ‘Fair Foreigners’ and ‘Dark Foreigners’: the identity and provenance of Vikings in ninth-century Ireland
• 8. Place-names as evidence for urban settlements in Britain in the Viking period
• 9. Ribe: continunity or discontinuity from thr eighth to the twelfth century?
• 10. Norwegian Crosses in the Hebrides and Shetland?
• 11. Late Viking-Age runestones in Uppland: some gender aspects
• 12. Weapons and warfare in Viking-Age Ireland
• 13. The Suffolk Street sword: further notes on the College Green cemetery, Dublin
• 14. Who were the Papar? Typological structures in Íslendingabók
• 15. Viking elements in Irish towns: Cork and Waterford
• 16. The warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age
• 17. The Vikings in Connemara
• 18. Dotted runes: where did they come from?
• 19. Kirkwall revisited
• 20. Viking-Age and Norse pottery in the Hebrides
• 21. Viking-Age queens and the formation of identity
• 22. The ledung and the continunity of warfare from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: the example of Sweden
• 23. The baptism of Harald Bluetooth
• 24. King Magnús Bareleg’s adventures in the West: the making of a King’s Saga
• 25. Urbanism and Christianity in Norway
• 26. Rebuilding the ‘city of angels’: Muirchertach Ua Briain and Glendalough, c.1096-1111
• 27. Culture clashes? The human remains from the Wood Quay excavations
• 28. Surtshellir: a fortified outlaw cave in West Iceland
• 29. Women in early towns
• 30. Bridging the distribution gap: inscribed swords from Denmark
• 31. Ninth-century Viking entries in the Irish annals: ‘no ‘forty years’ rest’
• 32. The metal detector and the Viking Age in England
• 33. From Scandinavia to Spain: a Viking-Age reliquary in León and its meaning
• 34. The sagas and courtly love
• 35. Life and death among the Picts and Vikings at Westness
• 36. Colonel Sempronius Stretton and the reprovenancing of a Viking-Age hoard
• 37. Weapons and warfare in Icelandic place-names
• 38. The Finglas burial: archaeology and ethnicity in Viking-Age Dublin
• 39. The first phase of Viking activity in Ireland: archaeological evidence from Dublin
• 40. Close ties and long-range relations: the emporia network in early Viking-Age exchange
• 41. Ailikn’s wagon and Ódinn’s warriors: the pictures on the Gotlandic Ardre monuments
• 42. Ulfberht revisited: a classification
• 43. Toftanes and the early Christianity of the Faroe Islands
• 44. Cosmic aspects of sanctuaries in Viking-Age Scandinavia with comparisons to the West-Slavic area
• 45. The making of a centre: the case of Reykholt, Iceland
• 46. Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland
• 47. Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour: old data and recent research
• 48. Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level
• 49. On eid-names in Orkney and other North Atlantic islands
• 50. Textiles that work for their living: a late eleventh-century cloth from Cork, Ireland
• Index