The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction (22 page)

23

silver
53, 54, 55, 81, 82–3,

horned helmet find
120

91

pre-Christian belief
22, 23,

silversmiths
30, 33

24

Sjælland, island of (Denmark)

rune stones
27

9

specialized settlements
30

excavations
32–4

urbanism in
41–3, 44–5

150

Viking romantic revival

Tyr (god)
34

118–19

Tywyn (Gwynedd)
82

T

U

tapestries
21, 120

United States
125–6,
see also
Tating-ware jugs
25–6, 36

North America

taxation
32, 40

Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-

teeth analysis
132

Bremen
25

Tegnér, Esaias,
Frithiofs Saga

Unst, island of
95

118, 120

Uppåkra, Skåne (Denmark)
30

temples
23

Uppland (Sweden)
17, 18, 22,

Theodosius
34

26–7, 27, 30

Thor (god)
20, 72

urbanism
5, 9, 39–46, 60, 63,

Thorfinn, Earl
91

67–8, 78, 79

Thyra, Queen
16

Tissø site, Sjælland (Denmark)

V

32–4

Valhalla
26, 85

tithes
115

Valkyries
20, 120

Index

totemic belief system
20

Valsta cemetery, Uppland

trade
5, 17, 27, 30, 33–4, 36,

(Sweden)
26–7

40, 43, 45, 53–4, 59, 98

Vanir (family of gods)
20

Greenland
107, 114

Västergötland, Sweden
17

Hebrides
90

Viking Age
5–6, 118

Norway
43–4

Viking Club
122

stockfish
36

Viking Society for Northern

Vinland
110

Research
121

trading centres
39, 68

Vikings:

tree ring dating
13, 26, 44, 48,

derivation of name
4–5

60

forgeries
125–9

Trelleborg fortification

genetics survey
131–2

(Denmark)
14, 15, 31

and Nazis
123–4, 125

tribute
16, 33, 37, 53, 54, 55,

Romantic revival
117–23

56, 60, 81, 82

Vinland
6, 109–13

Trøndelag district (Norway)

Vinland map
126

15, 28

Trondheim (Norway)
45, 71

Tynwald (Manx Parliament)

W

84

Wagner, Richard
120, 123, 124

151

Wales
82–4

Witmar (missionary monk)
25

walrus-hunting
37

women
128

warlords,
see
chieftains

Christian conversion of
26

warrior burials
22, 85, 92

erection of rune stones by
28

weaponry
34, 41–2, 56, 58, 70,

workshops
30, 31, 33, 34, 42,

72, 79, 80, 85, 94

60, 79

weaving
31, 36, 42, 107

Worm, Ole
117

Wedmore, Treaty of (886)
64

Wulfstan, archbishop of York

Wessex
63, 65, 66, 67, 90

13

Western Isles (Hebrides)
6, 17,

84, 88–90, 131

whaling
37, 97, 98

Y

Wharram Percy sculpture
76

Yale University
126

Whithorn monastery

York (Eoforwic)
1, 68, 69, 70,

(Scotland)
77

73, 80, 129, 130

Willibrord, bishop of Utrecht

York Minster
74

12, 25

Yorkshire
64, 65, 66, 67

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• Chapter 1Vikings then and now
  
• Chapter 2Early Scandinavian kingdoms
  
• Chapter 3Pagans and Christians
  
• Chapter 4Changes in the countryside
  
• Chapter 5Towns and trade
  
• Chapter 6Across the ocean: seafaringand overseas expansion
  
• Chapter 7Settlers in England
  
• Chapter 8Raiders and traders aroundthe Irish Sea
  
• Chapter 9Vikings and Picts: genocideor assimilation?
  
• Chapter 10Landnám in the NorthAtlantic
  
• Chapter 11The edge of the world:Greenland and NorthAmerica
  
• Chapter 12Reinventing the Vikings
  
• Timeline
  
• Further reading
  
• Index