West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. A Festschrift in Honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford (The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD: Peoples, Economies and Cultures)

Contents
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Foreword (Nicholas Brooks)......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 18
List of Illustrations......Page 20
List of Tables......Page 24
County Abbreviations......Page 26
Barbara E. Crawford—A Bibliography......Page 28
PART ONE HISTORY AND CULTURAL CONTACTS......Page 34
On Reading the Icelandic Sagas: Approaches to Old Icelandic Texts (Paul Bibire)......Page 36
Becoming Scottish in the thirteenth century: the evidence of the Chronicle of Melrose (Dauvit Broun)......Page 52
Living on the Edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the Twelfth Century (Clare Downham)......Page 66
Image and Imagination: The Inchmarnock 'Hostage Stone' (Christopher Lowe)......Page 86
Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions found outside the British Isles (Elisabeth Okasha)......Page 102
From Scotland to Normandy: The Celtic Sea Route of the Vikings (Élisabeth Ridel)......Page 114
The appearance and personal abilities of goðar, jarlar, and konungar: Iceland, Orkney and Norway (Jón Viðar Sigurðsson)......Page 128
'Lords of Norroway' The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter (Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei)......Page 144
'These people were high-born and thought well of themselves': The family of Moddan of Dale (Gareth Williams)......Page 162
The Wood Beyond the World: Jämtland and the Norwegian Kings (Alex Woolf)......Page 186
PART TWO THE CHURCH AND THE CULT OF SAINTS......Page 200
Conversion and the Church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age: "A Very Difficult Thing Indeed" (Lesley Abrams)
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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)......Page 228
Irish and Armenian Ecclesiastics in Medieval Iceland (Margaret Cormack)......Page 260
Medieval Parish Formation in Orkney (Sarah Jane Gibbon)......Page 268
The Church of St. Clement in Oslo (Hans-Emil Lidén)......Page 284
The Shetland Chapel-sites Project 1999–2000 (Christopher D. Morris, with Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson)......Page 298
PART THREE ARCHAEOLOGY, MATERIAL CULTURE AND SETTLEMENT......Page 318
Norwick: Shetland's first Viking settlement? (Beverley Ballin Smith)......Page 320
The Pirate Fishermen: The Political Economy of a Medieval Maritime Society (James H. Barrett)......Page 332
'Like stray words or letters' The development and workings of the Treasure Trove system (Neil G. W. Curtis)......Page 374
Early Medieval Sculpture from the Faroes: an illustrated catalogue (Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott)......Page 396
Liminality and Loss: The Material Culture of St Serf 's Priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, Scotland (Mark A. Hall)......Page 412
Manuring practices in Scotland: deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record (Jo McKenzie)......Page 434
Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: three wilderness settlements in Shetland (Brian Smith)......Page 452
Governor on Antiquarian Mission: Christian Pløyen— a Faroese Link between Copenhagen and Shetland (Steffen Stummann Hansen)......Page 464
PART FOUR PLACE-NAMES AND LANGUAGE......Page 476
The Scandinavian element gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw (Gillian Fellows-Jensen)......Page 478
An ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist (Katherine Forsyth)......Page 494
Scandinavian Naming-Systems in the Hebrides—A Way of Understanding how the Scandinavians were in Contact with Gaels and Picts? (Peder Gammeltoft)......Page 512
The Rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross (Simon Taylor)......Page 530
The Orkney Papar-names (William P. L. Thomson)......Page 548
Placing Papa Stour in Context (Doreen Waugh)......Page 572
General Index......Page 618