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.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams
• On reading the icelandic sagas: Approaches to old icelandic texts / Paul Bibire
• Becoming scottish in the thirteenth century: The evidence of the chronicle of Melrose / Dauvit Broun
• Living on the edge: Scandinavian Dublin in the twelfth century / Clare Downham
• Image and imagination: The Inchmarnock ‘hostage stone’ / Christopher Lowe
• Anglo-saxon inscriptions found outside the british isles / Elisabeth Okasha
• From Scotland to Normandy: The celtic sea route of the vikings / Élisabeth Ridel
• The appearance and personal abilities of gođar, jarlar, and konungar:Iceland, Orkney and Norway / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
• ‘Lords of Norroway’ The Shetland estate of Herdis Thorvaldsdatter / Frans-Arne Stylegar and Liv Kjørsvik Schei
• ‘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 / Alex Woolf
• Conversion and the church in the Hebrides in the viking age: \'A very difficult thing indeed\' / Lesley Abrams
• 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
• Irish and armenian ecclesiastics in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack
• Medieval parish formation in Orkney / Sarah Jane Gibbon
• The Church of St. Clement in Oslo / Hans-Emil Lidén
• The Shetland Chapel-Sites project 1999–2000 / Christopher D. Morris , Kevin J. Brady and Paul G. Johnson
• Norwick: Shetland’s first viking settlement? / Beverley Ballin Smith
• The pirate fishermen: The political economy of a medieval maritime society / James H. Barrett
• ‘Like stray words or letters’ The development and workings of the treasure trove system / Neil G. W. Curtis
• Early medieval sculpture from the Faroes: An illustrated catalogue / Ian Fisher and Ian G. Scott
• Liminality and loss: The material culture of St Serf ‘s priory, Loch Leven, Kinross-Shire, Scotland / Mark A. Hall
• Manuring practices in Scotland: Deep anthropogenic soils and the historical record / Jo Mckenzie
• Stobister, Sinnabist and Starrapund: Three Wilderness settlements in Shetland / Brian Smith
• Governor on antiquarian mission: Christian Pløyen— A faroese link between Copenhagen and Shetland / Steffen Stummann Hansen
• The scandinavian element Gata outside the urbanised settlements of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen
• An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist / Katherine Forsyth
• Scandinavian naming-systems in the Hebrides—A way of understanding how the scandinavians were in contact with Gaels and Picts? / Peder Gammeltoft
• The rock of the irishmen: An early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross / Simon Taylor
• The Orkney Papar-names / William P. L. Thomson
• Placing Papa Stour in context / Doreen Waugh
• Illustrations / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams
• General Index / B. Ballin Smith , S. Taylor and G. Williams.