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 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.

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.