The Vikings (Peoples of the Ancient World)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Viking Variations
	Defining the Vikings
1 The Vikings Begin
	Northern Landscapes, Northern Peoples
	The Sámi
	Scandinavian Prehistories
	The Lords of the Hall
	A World in Motion
	The Vikings Begin
2 Viking Lives and Landscapes
	Kinship and Community Relations
	Social Organisation
	Life on the Land
	An Economy of Things
	Going to Market
	Ships and the Sea
	Language and Literacy
	The Rule of Law
	Violence and Society
	The Visual World
3 Tradition and World-View
	Cosmogony and the Norse Story-World
	The Invisible Population
	The Ritual Landscape and its Agents
	Living with the Dead
	Imagining the Afterlife
	The Good Viking?
4 The Viking Diaspora
	The ‘First Vikings’ in the East
	The Early Raids in the West
	Fighting for Frankia, Invading England
	The Danelaw and the Kingdom of York
	The Irish Sea
	Scotland and the Isles
	From Andalucia to Aachen
	The Opening of the North Atlantic
	The Rise of the Rus’
	Mikligarðr and the Caliphate
	Full Circle: Unknowingly into Another World
5 Church and State
	Faith and Power
	Scandinavian Contacts with Christianity
	The Vikings and Islam
	The Viking-Age State
	Christian Lifestyles
	Conversion in the Overseas Settlements
	Viking ‘Empires’?
	The Old World Order
Bibliography
Index