JMcB
08-27-2016, 03:59 AM
Some papers of possible interest:
The Introduction of farming in Northern Europe
T. Douglas Price
Northern Europe is defined for this essay as the classic area of Scandinavia - the countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
https://www.academia.edu/27736430/The_Introduction_of_farming_in_Northern_Europe
Ælla and the Descendants of Ivar: Politics and Legend in the Viking Age.
Neil McGuigan
https://www.academia.edu/10247408/Ælla_and_the_Descendants_of_Ivar_Politics_and_Lege nd_in_the_Viking_Age
North Sea Networks: Trade and Communication from the Seventh to the Tenth Century.
Daniel Melleno
Abstract: This article explores the commercial links that bound together the peoples of the North Sea from the seventh to the tenth century. At the heart of this trade lay Frisia, whose location as the cross roads between the North Sea and the heart of the Frankish Empire allowed Frisian, Frankish, and Scandinavian merchants to carry goods back and forth across the North Sea while at the same time facilitating the movement of ideas and cultural exchange. Annalists gathered information from these merchants, kings used them to pass messages back and forth, and missionaries traveled with them. By tracing the physical and textual evidence of merchants’ travels between foreign worlds, this article demonstrates that the steady growth of economic activity in the North Sea facilitated contact and communication between Francia and Scandinavia well before the first major Viking attacks on the Frankish empire in the 830s.
https://www.academia.edu/8271860/North_Sea_Networks_Trade_and_Communication_from_th e_Seventh_to_the_Tenth_Century
Isotopic provenancing of the Salme ship burials in Pre-Viking Age Estonia
T. Douglas Price, Jüri Peets, Raili Allmäe, Liina Maldre and Ester Oras
11211
Ship burials are a well-known feature of Scandinavian Viking Age archaeology, but the discovery of 41 individuals buried in two ships in Estonia belongs to the Pre-Viking period and is the first of its kind in Europe. The two crews met a violent end around AD 750, and were buried with a variety of richly decorated weapons, tools, gaming pieces and animal bones. The rich grave goods suggest that this was a diplomatic delegation protected by a cohort of elite warriors. They were armed with swords of Scandinavian design, possibly from the Stockholm-Ma ̈laren region, and stable isotope analysis is consistent with that being the probable homeland of the crew.
https://www.academia.edu/27175469/Isotopic_provenancing_of_the_Salme_ship_burials_in _Pre-Viking_Age_Estonia
The Introduction of farming in Northern Europe
T. Douglas Price
Northern Europe is defined for this essay as the classic area of Scandinavia - the countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
https://www.academia.edu/27736430/The_Introduction_of_farming_in_Northern_Europe
Ælla and the Descendants of Ivar: Politics and Legend in the Viking Age.
Neil McGuigan
https://www.academia.edu/10247408/Ælla_and_the_Descendants_of_Ivar_Politics_and_Lege nd_in_the_Viking_Age
North Sea Networks: Trade and Communication from the Seventh to the Tenth Century.
Daniel Melleno
Abstract: This article explores the commercial links that bound together the peoples of the North Sea from the seventh to the tenth century. At the heart of this trade lay Frisia, whose location as the cross roads between the North Sea and the heart of the Frankish Empire allowed Frisian, Frankish, and Scandinavian merchants to carry goods back and forth across the North Sea while at the same time facilitating the movement of ideas and cultural exchange. Annalists gathered information from these merchants, kings used them to pass messages back and forth, and missionaries traveled with them. By tracing the physical and textual evidence of merchants’ travels between foreign worlds, this article demonstrates that the steady growth of economic activity in the North Sea facilitated contact and communication between Francia and Scandinavia well before the first major Viking attacks on the Frankish empire in the 830s.
https://www.academia.edu/8271860/North_Sea_Networks_Trade_and_Communication_from_th e_Seventh_to_the_Tenth_Century
Isotopic provenancing of the Salme ship burials in Pre-Viking Age Estonia
T. Douglas Price, Jüri Peets, Raili Allmäe, Liina Maldre and Ester Oras
11211
Ship burials are a well-known feature of Scandinavian Viking Age archaeology, but the discovery of 41 individuals buried in two ships in Estonia belongs to the Pre-Viking period and is the first of its kind in Europe. The two crews met a violent end around AD 750, and were buried with a variety of richly decorated weapons, tools, gaming pieces and animal bones. The rich grave goods suggest that this was a diplomatic delegation protected by a cohort of elite warriors. They were armed with swords of Scandinavian design, possibly from the Stockholm-Ma ̈laren region, and stable isotope analysis is consistent with that being the probable homeland of the crew.
https://www.academia.edu/27175469/Isotopic_provenancing_of_the_Salme_ship_burials_in _Pre-Viking_Age_Estonia