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The Vikings in Ireland and beyond, before and after the Battle of Clontarf, Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson, editors

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The Vikings in Ireland and beyond, before and after the Battle of Clontarf, Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson, editors

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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mapsillustrationsplates

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index present

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non fiction

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The Vikings in Ireland and beyond

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bibliography

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913441501

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Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson, editors

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Pathways to our past

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before and after the Battle of Clontarf

Summary

This book contains contributions by many leading scholars in Viking studies from Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, on diverse subjects including archaeological excavation, art historical analysis, linguistics, literature, politics, historical sources, numismatics, environmental remains, human remains and artefact studies from c.795 to 1170. Aimed both at the non-specialist and the specialist reader, this book should prove to be a landmark publication in Viking studies for years to come

Table Of Contents

In memoriam Richard Hall (1949-2011) -- Foreword / Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council -- Preface / Rachel Moss and Charles Doherty -- 1. Ireland and the Viking Age / Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson -- 2. Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe / Signe Horn Fuglesang -- 3. The first generation in Ireland, 795-812: Viking raids and Viking bases? / Emer Purcell -- 4. The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence / Eamonn P. Kelly -- 5. Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century / Gareth Williams -- 6. Vikings at Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context / Colmán Etchingham -- 7. A Viking warrior grave from Dublin / Linzi Simpson -- 8. The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon? / Andy Halpin -- 9. Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage / John Sheehan -- 10. The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny / Joanne O'Sullivan -- 11. Viking Limerick and its hinterland / Brian Hodkinson -- 12. The break-up of Dál Riata and the rise of the Gallgoídil / Clare Downham -- 13. Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century / Ruth Johnson -- 14. A man of two faces: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh -- 15. King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor / Howard B. Clarke -- 16. Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- 17. Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region / Christina Lee -- 18. The environment of Viking-Age settlements: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia / Eileen Reilly -- 19. Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland's Viking-Age buildings / Rebecca Boyd -- 20. Viking-Age domestic settlement at 26-29 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations / Martin Byrne -- 21. Prelude to Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards / Andrew Woods -- 22. Copies or creations? Some shared elements in Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian artwork / Uaininn O'Meadhra -- 23. Practice makes perfect? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin / Jessica L. McGraw -- 24. The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style / Griffin Murray -- 25. Rathdown slabs revisited / Christiaan Corlett -- 26. Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature / Catherine Swift -- 27. Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age / David Griffiths -- 28. Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe / Donnchadh Ó Corráin

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