A collection of writings discussing the mutual influence between Scandinavian and European politics, culture and society both during and after the Viking Age.
Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impul
This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particu
The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions
Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the M