The Vikings in Ireland and Beyond: Before and After the Battle of Clontarf (Pathways to Our Past)

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Ireland and the Viking Age
2. Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe
3. The first generation in Ireland, 795-812: Viking raids and Viking bases?
4. The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence
5. Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century
6. Vikings at Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context
7. A Viking warrior grave from Dublin
8. The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon?
9. Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage
10. The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co.Kilkenny
11. Viking Limerick and its hinterland
12. The break-up of Dál Riata and the rise of Gallgoídil
13. Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century
Plates
14. A man of two faces: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources
15. King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor
16. Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland
17. Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region
18. The environment of Viking-Age: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia
19. Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland’s Viking-Age buildings
20. Viking-Age domestic settlement at 26-29 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations
21. Prelude to the Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards
22. Copies or creations? Some shared elements in Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian artwork
23. Practice makes perfect? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin
24. The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style
25. Rathdown slabs revisited
26. Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature
27. Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age
28. Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe
Index