West over sea : : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300 : a festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara Crawford / / edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams.

• Superior document: The northern world, v. 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Crawford, B. E.; Ballin Smith, Beverley.; Taylor, Simon, 1950-; Williams, Gareth.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 581 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; On reading the icelandic sagas: Approaches to old icelandic texts /; Becoming scottish in the thirteenth century: The evidence of the chronicle of Melrose /; Living on the edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century /; Image and imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘hostage stone’ /; Anglo-saxon inscriptions found outside the british isles /; From Scotland to Normandy: The celtic sea route of the vikings /; The appearance and personal abilities of gođar, jarlar, and konungar:Iceland, Orkney and Norway /; ‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter /; ‘These people were high-born and thought well of themselves’: The family of Moddan of Dale --; The wood beyond the world: Jämtland and the norwegian kings /; Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the viking age: \'A very difficult thing indeed\' /; A norwegian in Durham: An anatomy of a miracle in Reginald of Durham’s libellus de Admirandis Beati Cuthberti /; Irish and armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland /; Medieval parish formation in Orkney /; The Church of St. Clement in Oslo /; The Shetland Chapel-Sites project 1999–2000 /; Norwick: Shetland’s first viking settlement? /; The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society /; ‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the treasure trove system /; Early medieval sculpture from the Faroes: An illustrated catalogue /; Liminality and loss: The material culture of St Serf ‘s priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-Shire, Scotland /; Manuring practices in Scotland: Deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record /; Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: Three Wilderness settlements in Shetland /; Governor on antiquarian mission: Christian Pløyen— A faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland /; The scandinavian element Gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw /; An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist /; Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides—A way of understanding how the scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? /; The rock of the irishmen: An early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross /; The Orkney Papar-names /; Placing Papa Stour in context /; Illustrations /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9786611921620; 9781281921628; 1281921629; 9789047421214; 9047421213
• ISSN: 1569-1462
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams.

This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period. Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.