Sagas, Saints and Settlements / / edited by Gareth Williams, Paul Bibire |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 153 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 839.6/309 |
Collana | The Northern World |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization
Sagas - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-91503-X
9786610915033 90-474-0518-8 1-4294-0722-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- The world and its ages: the organisation of an encyclopadeic narratives in MS AM 764 4to -- The question of Genre in the late Islendinga sogur: a Case Study of Porskfirdinga saga -- Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr -- Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnus of Orkney -- LAnd Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland -- Earldom Strategies in North Scotland -- Scandinavians in Central Scotland- by-place-names and their Context -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450781203321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 | ||
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Sagas, Saints and Settlements / / edited by Gareth Williams, Paul Bibire |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 153 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 839.6/309 |
Collana | The Northern World |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization
Sagas - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-280-91503-X
9786610915033 90-474-0518-8 1-4294-0722-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- The world and its ages: the organisation of an encyclopadeic narratives in MS AM 764 4to -- The question of Genre in the late Islendinga sogur: a Case Study of Porskfirdinga saga -- Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, Pilgrim and Martyr -- Two Twelfth-Century Martyrs: St Thomas of Canterbury and St Magnus of Orkney -- LAnd Assessment and the Silver Economy of Norse Scotland -- Earldom Strategies in North Scotland -- Scandinavians in Central Scotland- by-place-names and their Context -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777044903321 |
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004 | ||
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West over sea [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford / / edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (646 p.) |
Disciplina | 948.023 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CrawfordB. E
Ballin SmithBeverley TaylorSimon <1950-> WilliamsGareth |
Collana | The northern world |
Soggetto topico |
Vikings - Great Britain
Land settlement patterns - Great Britain Excavations (Archaeology) - Great Britain Viking antiquities |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-92162-9
9786611921620 90-474-2121-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary material / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams -- On reading the icelandic sagas: Approaches to old icelandic texts / Paul Bibire -- Becoming scottish in the thirteenth century: The evidence of the chronicle of Melrose / Dauvit Broun -- Living on the edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century / Clare Downham -- Image and imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘hostage stone’ / Christopher Lowe -- Anglo-saxon inscriptions found outside the british isles / Elisabeth Okasha -- From Scotland to Normandy: The celtic sea route of the vikings / Élisabeth Ridel -- The appearance and personal abilities of gođar, jarlar, and konungar:Iceland, Orkney and Norway / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- ‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter / Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei -- ‘These people were high-born and thought well of themselves’: The family of Moddan of Dale -- The wood beyond the world: Jämtland and the norwegian kings / Alex Woolf -- Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the viking age: \'A very difficult thing indeed\' / Lesley Abrams -- A norwegian in Durham: An anatomy of a miracle in Reginald of Durham’s libellus de Admirandis Beati Cuthberti / Haki Antonsson , Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti -- Irish and armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack -- Medieval parish formation in Orkney / Sarah Jane Gibbon -- The Church of St. Clement in Oslo / Hans-Emil Lidén -- The Shetland Chapel-Sites project 1999–2000 / Christopher D. Morris , Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson -- Norwick: Shetland’s first viking settlement? / Beverley Ballin Smith -- The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society / James H. Barrett -- ‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the treasure trove system / Neil G. W. Curtis -- Early medieval sculpture from the Faroes: An illustrated catalogue / Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott -- Liminality and loss: The material culture of St Serf ‘s priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-Shire, Scotland / Mark A. Hall -- Manuring practices in Scotland: Deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record / Jo Mckenzie -- Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: Three Wilderness settlements in Shetland / Brian Smith -- Governor on antiquarian mission: Christian Pløyen— A faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland / Steffen Stummann Hansen -- The scandinavian element Gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist / Katherine Forsyth -- Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides—A way of understanding how the scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? / Peder Gammeltoft -- The rock of the irishmen: An early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross / Simon Taylor -- The Orkney Papar-names / William P. L. Thomson -- Placing Papa Stour in context / Doreen Waugh -- Illustrations / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams -- General Index / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454444303321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 | ||
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West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford / / editors, Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 581 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 948.023 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CrawfordB. E
Ballin SmithBeverley TaylorSimon <1950-> WilliamsGareth |
Collana | The northern world |
Soggetto topico |
Vikings - Great Britain
Land settlement patterns - Great Britain Excavations (Archaeology) - Great Britain Viking antiquities |
ISBN |
1-281-92162-9
9786611921620 90-474-2121-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary material / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams -- On reading the icelandic sagas: Approaches to old icelandic texts / Paul Bibire -- Becoming scottish in the thirteenth century: The evidence of the chronicle of Melrose / Dauvit Broun -- Living on the edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century / Clare Downham -- Image and imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘hostage stone’ / Christopher Lowe -- Anglo-saxon inscriptions found outside the british isles / Elisabeth Okasha -- From Scotland to Normandy: The celtic sea route of the vikings / Élisabeth Ridel -- The appearance and personal abilities of gođar, jarlar, and konungar:Iceland, Orkney and Norway / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- ‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter / Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei -- ‘These people were high-born and thought well of themselves’: The family of Moddan of Dale -- The wood beyond the world: Jämtland and the norwegian kings / Alex Woolf -- Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the viking age: \'A very difficult thing indeed\' / Lesley Abrams -- A norwegian in Durham: An anatomy of a miracle in Reginald of Durham’s libellus de Admirandis Beati Cuthberti / Haki Antonsson , Sally Crumplin and Aidan Conti -- Irish and armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack -- Medieval parish formation in Orkney / Sarah Jane Gibbon -- The Church of St. Clement in Oslo / Hans-Emil Lidén -- The Shetland Chapel-Sites project 1999–2000 / Christopher D. Morris , Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson -- Norwick: Shetland’s first viking settlement? / Beverley Ballin Smith -- The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society / James H. Barrett -- ‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the treasure trove system / Neil G. W. Curtis -- Early medieval sculpture from the Faroes: An illustrated catalogue / Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott -- Liminality and loss: The material culture of St Serf ‘s priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-Shire, Scotland / Mark A. Hall -- Manuring practices in Scotland: Deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record / Jo Mckenzie -- Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: Three Wilderness settlements in Shetland / Brian Smith -- Governor on antiquarian mission: Christian Pløyen— A faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland / Steffen Stummann Hansen -- The scandinavian element Gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist / Katherine Forsyth -- Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides—A way of understanding how the scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? / Peder Gammeltoft -- The rock of the irishmen: An early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross / Simon Taylor -- The Orkney Papar-names / William P. L. Thomson -- Placing Papa Stour in context / Doreen Waugh -- Illustrations / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams -- General Index / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782478603321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2007 | ||
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