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Vikings : life and legend / edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff. - 288 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color maps ; 29 cm

Includes index.

Contacts & exchange / Sunhild KleingaÌrtner and Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams -- Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen -- Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild KleingaÌrtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams -- The way of the warrior / Neil Price -- Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams -- Power & aristocracy / Anne Pedersen -- Great halls and palaces / Matthias Wemhoff -- The royal monuments of Jelling / Anne Pedersen -- Neighbours along the southern Baltic coast / Sunhild KleingaÌrtner -- Belief & ritual / Neil Price -- The Fyrkat woman / Peter Pentz and Neil Price -- Ritual sites at Lake Tiss / Lars Jorgensen -- The Oseberg ship and ritual burial / Jan Bill -- Ships & the Vikings / Peter Pentz -- Roskilde / Jan Bill -- Conservation of Roskilde 6 / Kristiane Straetkvern -- Notes -- Bibliography-- List of lenders -- List of exhibits -- Acknowledgements -- Illustration credits -- Index.

ISBN: 9780801479427

LCCN: 2013042824

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vikings.
Viking antiquities.

LC Class. No.: DL65 / .V569 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 948/.022