The Viking World

1. Scandinavia before the Viking Age
2. Law and society: polities and legal customs in Viking Scandinavia
3. The Sámi and their interaction with the Nordic peoples
4. Women and sexual politics
5. Slavery in the Viking Age
6. Naming the land
7. Farm and village in the Viking Age
8. The development of urbanism in Scandinavia
9. Local and long-distance exchange
10. Coinage and monetary economies
11. Viking ships and the sea
12. Viking Age textiles
13. Handicrafts
14. Raiding and warfare
15. Viking weaponry
16. The religion of the Vikings
17. Popular religion in the Viking Age
18. The material culture of Old Norse religion
19. Dying and the dead: Viking Age mortuary behaviour
20. The Scandinavian languages in the Viking Age
21. Runes
22. Poetry in the Viking Age
23. The Icelandic sagas
24. The development of Viking art
25. Vikings in England
26. Vikings in Insular chronicling
27. Viking settlement in England
28. Scandinavian place names in the British Isles
29. The Vikings in Wales
30. The Norse in Scotland
31. The Vikings and Ireland
32. Archaeological evidence for the different expressions of Scandinavian settlement in Ireland, 840–1100
33. Scandinavia and the Continent in the Viking Age
34. The Vikings in Spain, North Africa and the Mediterranean
35. The Viking Age in Finland
36. The Vikings and the eastern Baltic
37. The Viking Rus and Byzantium
38. The Vikings in the east
39. The Vikings and Islam
40. Arabic sources on the Vikings
41. The North Atlantic expansion
42. Iceland
43. The Norse settlements in Greenland
44. The discovery of Vinland
45. Christianisation and the emergence of the early Church in Scandinavia
46. Runestones and the Christian missions
47. The creation of Norway
48. The emergence of Denmark and the reign of Harald Bluetooth
49. The emergence of Sweden

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted. Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe. This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.