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Vikings began raiding islands and monasteries on the Atlantic fringes of Europe in the 790s. The Irish Sea rapidly became one of their most productive hunting grounds. Attacks, battles and destruction were accompanied by trade - in slaves, silver and fine objects.
Vikings crossed and re-crossed the Irish Sea in search of land, wealth and power. Raids were followed by settlement, first in fortified camps, and later in towns, market enclaves and rural estates. Vikings came into contact with existing populations in Ireland, Britain and the Isle of Man. Viking paganism, demonstrated by spectacular burials, was gradually eclipsed by Christianity. By 1050, the process of assimilation was well under way, yet Viking influence and distinctiveness did not altogether disappear.
This updated edition of Vikings of the Irish Sea takes the sea as its starting point and looks afresh at the story of a supremely opportunistic people who left their mark in ways that still resonate today.
Contents
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Vikings
The Irish Sea
'The Irish Sea Province'
The Irish Sea in the pre-Viking period
Sources of evidence for the Viking period
Chapter 2: Raids and Early Settlement in Ireland
Longphort and dún: the Viking base on land
'Dark' and 'fair' foreigners, and the 'Gallgoídil'
Chapter 3: Exporting Violence and Seeking Landfall c. 850-c. 1050
Weakness and opportunity: Galloway and Cumbria
From Dublin to Brunanburh
The later tenth and early eleventh centuries
Chapter 4: Land-take and Landscape
Estates and landholding
Territory, boundaries and defence
Meetings and 'things'
Rural settlement archaeology
Chapter 5: Burial: Changing Rites, New Places
Regional surveys 1: Ireland
Regional surveys 2: The Isle of Man
Regional surveys 3: From the Solway Firth to Wales
Viking-period finds and burial in churchyards
Chapter 6: Trade, Silver and Market Sites
Hoards and currency
Single finds and market sites
Chapter 7: Towns and Urbanisation
Tenth- and eleventh-century Dublin
Anglo-Saxon urbanisation and tenth-century Chester
Trade in the Bristol Channel, and the later Hiberno-Norse towns
Chapter 8: Assimilation and Cultural Change
Burial and commemoration
Religious conversion and Viking motifs
An Irish Sea metalwork tradition?
Architecture: urban and rural
Language and inscriptions
Hybridity and acculturation - the process of cultural change
Chapter 9: Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
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