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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pathways to our pastPublisher: Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press [2015]Description: xxxiv, 526 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781846824951:
  • 1846824958 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.501
Contents:
In memoriam Richard Hall (1949-2011) -- Foreword / Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council -- Part I. In Prospect -- Ireland and the Viking Age / Howard B. Clarke & Ruth Johnson -- Part II. Before the Battle -- Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe / Signe Horn Fuglesang -- The first generation in Ireland, 795812: Viking raids and Viking bases? / Emer Purcell -- The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence / Eamonn P. Kelly -- Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century / Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context / Colmâan Etchingham -- 7. A Viking warrior grave from Dublin / Linzi Simpson -- The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon? / Andy Halpin -- Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage / John Sheehan -- The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny / Joanne O'Sullivan -- Viking Limerick and its hinterland / Brian Hodkinson -- The break-up of Dâal Riata and the rise of the Gallgoâidil / Clare Downham -- Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century / Ruth Johnson -- Part III. During the Battle -- A man of two faces: Mâael Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources / Mâaire Nâi Mhaonaigh -- King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor / Howard B. Clarke -- Part IV. After the Battle -- Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region / Christina Lee -- The environment of Viking-Age settlements: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia / Eileen Reilly -- Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland's Viking-Age buildings / Rebecca Boyd -- Viking-Age domestic settlement at 2629 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations / Martin Byrne -- Prelude to Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards / Andrew Woods -- Copies or creations? Some shared elements in Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian artwork / Uaininn O'Meadhra -- Practice makes perfect? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin / Jessica L. McGraw The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style / Griffin Murray -- Rathdown slabs revisited / Christiaan Corlett -- Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature / Catherine Swift -- Part V. In Retrospect -- Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age / David Griffiths -- Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe / Donnchadh O Corrâin.

CW098

"This collection of essays originated in a symposium held in Dublin in April 2011..."--Foreword.

CW067

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In memoriam Richard Hall (1949-2011) -- Foreword / Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council -- Part I. In Prospect -- Ireland and the Viking Age / Howard B. Clarke & Ruth Johnson -- Part II. Before the Battle -- Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe / Signe Horn Fuglesang -- The first generation in Ireland, 795812: Viking raids and Viking bases? / Emer Purcell -- The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence / Eamonn P. Kelly -- Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century / Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context / Colmâan Etchingham -- 7. A Viking warrior grave from Dublin / Linzi Simpson -- The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon? / Andy Halpin -- Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage / John Sheehan -- The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny / Joanne O'Sullivan -- Viking Limerick and its hinterland / Brian Hodkinson -- The break-up of Dâal Riata and the rise of the Gallgoâidil / Clare Downham -- Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century / Ruth Johnson -- Part III. During the Battle -- A man of two faces: Mâael Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources / Mâaire Nâi Mhaonaigh -- King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor / Howard B. Clarke -- Part IV. After the Battle -- Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region / Christina Lee -- The environment of Viking-Age settlements: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia / Eileen Reilly -- Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland's Viking-Age buildings / Rebecca Boyd -- Viking-Age domestic settlement at 2629 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations / Martin Byrne -- Prelude to Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards / Andrew Woods -- Copies or creations? Some shared elements in Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian artwork / Uaininn O'Meadhra -- Practice makes perfect? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin / Jessica L. McGraw The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style / Griffin Murray -- Rathdown slabs revisited / Christiaan Corlett -- Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature / Catherine Swift -- Part V. In Retrospect -- Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age / David Griffiths -- Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe / Donnchadh O Corrâin.

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