Aethelflæd of Mercia,29,32,57Aethelstan,35-6Alfred the Great,25-8Altar-ring,26,89Althing,116Anlaf Godfreyson,35;Sihtricsson (Cuaran),34,36,56,60-1,90Arabic historians, references in,20,76,109Auðr the deep-thoughted,20,66,68,85,89bautasteinar,110Björkö,86,96,98Björn Ironside,22,44,46Black Foreigners,10Brian Borumha,56,62-4Brunanburh,35,61,64Burial ceremonies,99-100,108-10carucates,132-3Christianity,16,37,41,83,86-93Clontarf,63-4,67,98,120Cnut,41-2,87,101Daci,10,134Danegeld,38-9,48Danelagh boundaries,27,128-9;reconquest,29-32Danes,passimDenmark,5,16,22-3,44,86-7drengs,135-6Dubh-gaill,10Dublin,15,23,33-4,55,59-60,64,89,103,120-2East Anglia,11,14,27-8,32,134-5Eddaic poems,2,93-4Edmund Ironside,40-1Edward the Elder,29,31England, invasion of,12,22-43;influence in,123-37Eric Blood-axe,36-7Ethelred the Unready,37-40Faroes,6,98Fin-gaill,10Five Boroughs,11,30,36,134-6Frisia,15-8,49France, invasions of,17-21,43-53;influence in,138-42Frisians,8Gaill-Gaedhil,56,65,67Galloway,65,116Gokstad ship,99Greenland,99Guthrum of East Anglia,26-7Hásteinn (Hastingus),28,44,46,50Hafrsfjord,7,56Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri,35-6,88Halfdanr,22,25,33,58Harold Bluetooth,37,70-2,87Harold Fairhair,7,35,58,67,142Harold Hardrada,42,81,99Harold of Mainz,16,18-9,86Heathenism,83,86-93Hebrides,5,60,65,67-8,114Hiruath,11holds,135Hörðaland, Hörðai,5,11hows,108Iceland,83,85,117,142-4Ireland, attacks on,12-13,15,54-64;Danes and Norsemen in,54-8;influence in,116-23Ívarr the boneless,22,24-5,57-8jarls,103,134Jellinge stone,111Jómsborg, Jómsvikings,70-2,98,102jury, presentation by,136Ketill Finn,67Ketill Flatnose,56,67lawmen,103,116,136Limerick,59,62,98,120Lochlann,10Ludwigslied,47Madjus,20Maeshowe,23,113Maldon, battle of,38Man, Isle of,12,39,63,65-8,114-5nithing,137Noirmoutier,17,19,21Norsemen, Norwegians,passimNorthumbria,11,24-5,28,83-4,37,41,60,63,126-8Normandy,52-3,138-42Norway,7,16;Christianity in,88-9Odin,88,95,115Ohthere, Óttarr,96,99Olaf Tryggvason,4,38,87,89,101Olaf the White,20,57-8,66,68ore,133Orkneys,23,63,65,112-3,117Ornamentation, style of,79,106-7Ornaments,104-6Oseberg ship,99-100Ostmen,122Oðal,67,113Paris,21,49-50Place-names, influence on Scottish,114;Irish,118-9;English,123-9prime-signing,91Ragnarr Loðbrók,21-4,44,57,102Rhôs,19,47,73-4ridings,131Rollo,9,53,103Runic inscriptions,23,81,85-6,110-1,113-5Rus,73-9Russia, founding of,73-80St Anskar,70,86St Edmund,25St Olaf,41,89Scaldingi,11Scandinavian loan-words in English,130-1Sculptured stones,91,111,114-5Seven Boroughs,40Shetlands,5,6,65,112-3,117Ship-burials,99-100Ships,29,98-100Shires, origin of,31n.,134Sigurd of the Orkneys,63,66-7Slesvík,15,87,96Sodor and Man,65Stamford Bridge,42Suðreyjar,65Svein Forkbeard,37,39,40,87Sweden,7,96Swedes,9,19,72-9thing,103,115-6Thor,89,95,115Trade, character of,96-8;Oriental,71,79-80;Russian,75-80;Irish,120Turf-Einar,67Turges,13,20Tynwald Court,115udalandudaller,113Varangians, Variags,73,77-9Vestfold,11,16Viking, the term,1Viking movement, causes of,4-11Vinland,99Wapentake,132Weapons,101-2Wedmore, peace of,27Westfaldingi,11White Foreigners,10Women, position of,54-6,94York,24,31,33
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