Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-Period Settlement

by John Hines (Editor)

The 28 papers in this volume explore the practical life, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organisation, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking period.

482 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

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Professor John Hines is a specialist in the archaeology, literature and languages of medieval northern Europe at Cardiff University.