The A to Z of the Vikings 11 pptx

... peak in the eighth century, the town had perhaps as many as 2,000 inhabi- tants living and working in an area of more than 60 hectares. A mint was established at Dorestad as early as 630, and ... The size and wealth of the town made it a favorite target for Viking raiders after the first recorded raid in 834, and Frankish annals (see Annals of St-Bertin and Annals of Ful...

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... research interests are in the Viking-Age and early medieval history of Britain and Scandinavia, particularly the nature and extent of the Scandina- vian settlement in the various regions of the British Isles and ... Collections 379 An asterisk indicates large or important collections. CANADA L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland L’Anse Aux Meadows Museum Parks Canada Canadian Herit...

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... Buchanan, 2009. 60. The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater, by Jan Sjåvik, 2009. 61. The A to Z of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif, by Jean Michaud, 2009. 62. The A to Z of ... 2009. 71. The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater, by Fran Ma- son, 2009. 72. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, by Al...

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... dictionary is, of course, organized alphabetically, but when it comes to the Vikings, this is not as easy a task as it may sound: there are a num- ber of additional characters in the Scandinavian and ... conventions of the Scandina- vian and Icelandic languages, I have chosen to anglicize these charac- ters. Thus, å and ä, are treated simply as the letter a; æ as the...

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... dictionary will actually focus on the archae- ological, art historical, epigraphical, historical, linguistic, and literary ev- idence for Scandinavia and Scandinavians in the Viking Age. It has also been ... that they spent much time there. At the beginning of the Viking Age, Iceland was of course not part of the Scandinavian world, but it was colonized by a Scandinavian- sp...

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... 11 The Dictionary 17 – A – ABBASID CALIPHATE. The Abbasids were an Arab dynasty, de- scended from al-Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet Mohammed. They displaced the ruling Umayyad dynasty and came ... which it lasted and across the vast distances of Scandinavia. The only real agreement today is that many different fac- tors played a part in triggering this wave of outwar...

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... Poet and ambassador from Andalusia in Spain sent by Abdurrhaman II, Moorish emir of Cordoba, to the court of the king of the Majus in the North. Al-Ghazal’s journey is said to have taken place ... Slavonic and Scandinavian languages. ÆLFGIFU OF NORTHAMPTON. Known as Alfiva in Scandinavia. Ælfgifu belonged to an aristocratic Mercian (see Mercia) family and was the daugh...

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... Jutland. In particular, archaeological evidence reveals that the first phase of the Danevirke fortification across the base of the Jutland Penin- sula, the construction of the Kanhave Canal on the ... to Scandinavia and the Baltic and made him Archbishop of Hamburg (the see was amalgamated with that of Bremen and elevated to the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen...

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... spurs, and a shield. BALLATEARE. Site of a Viking-Age pagan burial from the southern parish of Arbory on the Isle of Man. The burial mound contained the remains of a man and a woman, although the ... family came to be known by the name Laxdale and was the subject of a 13th-century saga, Laxdæla Saga. – B – BAFFIN ISLAND. See HELLULAND. BALDER (ON Baldr). Go...

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... of a chieftain (see go ðð i) and to accompany him to the springtime assembly and to either pay a thing-attendance tax or to at- tend the Althing with their chieftain each summer. These laws also stated ... tutor and is characterized by William as a “very deceitful man.” Together, they attacked the Spanish (see Spain), southern French, and North African coasts, and the...

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