Authors: Robert Ferguson
The Vikings (67 page)
Adèle/Gerloc (dau. of Rollo)
Adémar of Chabannes
Adomnán, abbot of Iona
Aed Finlaith, king
Ælfeah
see
Alphege, Saint, archbishop of Canterbury
see
Alphege, Saint, archbishop of Canterbury
Ælfgifu (Cnut’s mistress)
Ælfmær, abbot
Ælfric, alderman
Aelfthryth, queen, consort of Edgar, king of England
Aella, king of Northumbria
Æsir/Aesir
see also
Frey; Freyja; Heimdall; Loki; Odin
Frey; Freyja; Heimdall; Loki; Odin
Æskell (named on Svinnegarn stone)
Aethelfled/Ethelfled, princess
Aethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury
Aethelred/Ethelred, alderman
Æthelweard (chronicler)
Aethelwold, king of Northumbria
Africa
Agdenes, battle of
Age of Migrations
Aggersborg fort, Denmark
Agnar Helgason
Aifur rapids
Alan(the Great), duke of Brittany
Alan(Barbetorte), duke of Brittany
Alaskog picture-stone, Gotland
Alcacer do Sal, Portugal
Alcuin (monk)
Charlemagne and
credulity
on heathens’ conversion
on heathens’ vanity and immodesty
on Lindisfarne attack
rebuke for copying heathen fashions
warning to Wearmouth and Jarrow
Wulfstan and
Aldulf (deacon)
Alexander, Byzantine emperor
Alexander, Pope
Alexander, Pope
Alfonso, bishop Don
Alfred, king of Wessex
Guthrum/Athelstan and
Hastein/Hasting and
Mercia and
Nottingham siege
Ottar and
Rollo and
translation of Augustine’s
Soliloquies
Soliloquies
Vikings’ oath on sacred ring
‘Alfred Jewel’
Algarve, the
Algeciras
Aller
Alney
Alphege, Saint, archbishop of Canterbury
Alphonse, king of Galicia
Alsvinn (horse)
Althing
Greenland
Iceland
see also
thing
meetings
thing
meetings
Ameralik, Greenland
America
see
North America
see
North America
Amiens, France
Amlaib/Olaf, king of Dublin
Amma (mother of Heimdall’s child)
al-Andalus
see also
Iberian peninsula
Iberian peninsula
Andover
Angantyr, king of the Danes
Angerboda (giantess)
Anglesey
Angmagssalik, Greenland
Anjou
Anlaf (Viking raider)
see also
Olaf Tryggvason
Olaf Tryggvason
Anna (sister of Basil)
Anskar, Saint
archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
bishop of Hamburg
death and canonization
exile from Hamburg
mission to Danes
mission to Swedes
Antwerp
Anund, king in Birka
Anund, king of Sweden
Anund Jakob (Olofsson), king in Sweden
Anwend (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Apulia
Aquitaine
Arabs
see
Islamic countries
see
Islamic countries
Arbmann, H., and Nilsson, N.-O.
Arbo, P. N.
Argyll, Scotland
Århus, Denmark
Ari Thorgilsson (‘the Learned’)
on Iceland’s conversion
on Iceland’s laws
on Olav Haraldson
on place-name ‘Dritsker’
on Ragnar Lodbrok
reliability as source
on settlement of Iceland
on Thangbrand
Armagh monastery
Army Road, Denmark
Arnkel (in
Eyrbyggja Saga
)
Eyrbyggja Saga
)
Arras, France
artwork
Arvakr (horse)
Ásbjörn (named on Frösö stone)
Asgard
Asgeir (Viking leader)
Ashdown
Ashington, Essex
Asilah, Morocco
Ask (first man)
Askold (Rus leader)
Asmundarleidi, Iceland
Asselt
Asser, archbishop of Lund
Asser, bishop of Sherborne
on Alfred’s flight to Somerset
on Alfred’s treaty with Guthrum
on foreign monks at Athelney
on Ubbi
on Viking monk
on Viking raiders
Assur (named on Bro stone)
Åsta (mother of Olav Haraldson)
Ástráðor (named on Tirsted rune-stone)
Astrid (mother of Olaf Tryggvason)
Astrid, queen, consort of Olav Haraldson
astronomy
see also
navigation
navigation
Asturia
Athelhelm, bishop of Wells, later archbishop of Canterbury
Athelney
Athelstan, king of Wessex
Brunanburh battle
Erik Bloodaxe and
Håkon Athelstansfostri and
Oda, bishop of Ramsbury, and
Athelstan/Guthrum
see
Guthrum (later Athelstan)
see
Guthrum (later Athelstan)
Atli (speaker at Nidaros assembly)
Attigny
Aud the Deep-minded
Audhumla (mythological cow)
Aurvandil (dwarf)
Austmaðr (named on Frösö stone)
Austmannadalen, Greenland
Autbert (companion of St Anskar)
Avaldsay, Orkney
Avaldsnes, Norway
Avranche, bishops of
Avranchin
Baffin Island
Baghdad
Bagrat, king in Georgia
Bagsecg (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Bakewell
Baldwin, king of Jerusalem
Balearic Islands
Ballateare, Isle of Man
Balsta stone
Baltic area
Rus and
see also
Gotland
Gotland
Baltic-Dnieper/Volga trade routes
Bamburgh
Bandelundeviken, Gotland
Bangor monastery
Banki (named on Svinnegarn stone)
Bård the Stout
Bardr (Greenlander)
Barlingbo, Gotland
Bartholomew, Saint
Barufors rapids
Bashi, Georgia
Basil, Byzantine emperor
Basing, Hampshire
Basques
Bayeaux
Bayonne
Beaduheard (reeve)
Beauvais
Beauvais, bishop of
Bede
Bedford
Bedfordshire
Beela (river)
Belle Isle, Strait of
Benevento, Italy
Benfleet
Bennchor
see
Bangor monastery
see
Bangor monastery
Berengar of Ivrea
Berg the Bold (in
Vatnsdaela Saga
)
Vatnsdaela Saga
)
Bergen, Norway
Berglund, Joel
Berkshire
Bermeo, Spain
Bernicia
Bestla (giantess)
Biddle, Martin
Birka, Sweden
Christianity
divination at
trade
vase
Birsay, Orkney
Biscay
Biscay, Bay of
Bjarkøyretten
Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa
Bjarni Herjolfsson
Bjólan, king in the Hebrides
Björk (Greenlander)
Bjørn, king at Birka
Bjørn (priest, in
Saga of Gudmund Dyri
)
Saga of Gudmund Dyri
)
Bjørn (Viking leader)
Björn Gilsson, bishop
Bjørn Ironside
black foreigners
Blamac (monk)
Blekinge, Sweden
Bochult, battle of
Bogeviken, Gotland
Bohuslän, Sweden
Bømlo, Norway
see also
Moster
Moster
Borg, Norway
Borgarthing, Norway
Borgeby, Sweden
Borre, Norway
Borre style
Bouin, Aquitaine
Bovi (follower of Cnut)
Bowers, Mr
Boyne (river)
Bragi (poet)
Bragi the Old
Brattahlid, Greenland
Brega, Ireland
Bremen
see also
Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric
Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric
Brendan, Saint
Bressay stone
Brian Boru, high-king of Ireland
Bridei, king of the Picts
Bridgnorth
Brihtwulf, king of Mercia
Brink, Thorgunn Snædal
Bristol, trade
British Isles
see also
England; Ireland; Isle of Man; Scotland; Wales
England; Ireland; Isle of Man; Scotland; Wales
Brittany
Anjou ceded to
campaign to reclaim
Cotentin and Avranchin
Normandy and
Vikings in
see also
Île de Groix
Île de Groix
Bro stone
Broadcarr, Norfolk
Bromborough
Brunanburh, battle of
Brynjolfúr Sveinsson
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
Buckquoy, Orkney
Bulgars
Burgred, king of Mercia
Burgundy
Burgundy, king of
burhs
Buri (giant)
burials
Birka
children’s
Christian ground
France
Gorm the Old
Gotland
Ibn Rustah’s account
Iceland
Isle of Man
Jelling
Latvia
master/mistress and slave
Norway
opening of mounds
Repton, England
runic inscriptions
Slagelse fort
Staraja Ladoga settlement
see also
cremation; funeral rites; ship burials
cremation; funeral rites; ship burials
Byfield, Massachusetts
Bygdøy, Norway
Byrhtferth of Ramsey
Byrhtnoth (British leader)
Byzantine empire
Cadiz
Caerball (Irish leader)
Caithness
calendar
Calf of Man
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
Camp de Péran, Brittany
Cantabria
Canterbury
Capet, Hugh, king of France
Carhampton
Carlton
Carolingian empire
see also
Charlemagne; Franks; Normandy
Charlemagne; Franks; Normandy
Castlerea, Ireland
Catillus (father of Rollo)
Caxton, William
Cenwulf, king of Mercia
Ceolwulf, king of Mercia
Charlemagne
Alcuin and
Brittany and
Christianity and
death
Denmark and
envoys to Northumbria
Holy Roman Emperor
kingship model
Magnus Olafsson named for
Saxons and
Saxony dioceses
Vikings and
see also
Carolingian empire
Carolingian empire
Charles the Bald, king of the Western Franks
appeasement of Vikings
battle with Vikings
envoys to Danes
Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles the Simple, king of the Western Franks
Chartres, France
Chat Moss, Lancashire
Cherson
Cheshire
see also
Runcorn
Runcorn
Chester
children
Chippenham
Christianity
Adam of Bremen’s prejudice
baptism of deformed children
burials in Christian ground
Charlemagne
Cnut, king
Denmark : Anskar’s mission ; Ebbo of Reims; Harald Bluetooth ; Horic; Klak-Harald ; Olaf Tryggvason; Willibrord’s mission
England
Greenland
Guthrum/Athelstan
Hallfred Ottarson (the Troublesome Poet)
Harald Finehair
Hasting (Viking leader)
heathen religion and
homosexuality and
horse-flesh taboo
Iceland: conversion ; Irish Christians in; Thangbrand’s mission
‘Ingvar’ rune-stones
Ireland
Irish/Viking intermarriages
Normandy
Norway: Håkon the Good ; Harald Bluetooth ; Olaf Tryggvason ; Olav Haraldsson
Olaf Sihtricsson
Orkney
Picts
poetry and
Poland
in Ragnarök story
Rollo
Rus
Shetland
Sihtric of York
Slavs
Sweden: Anskar’s mission ; Birka
Varangians
Vascony
‘viking’ connotations
Western Isles
women and
see also
Orthodox Christianity
Orthodox Christianity
Cianacht (Irishman)
Cinaed, king of North Brega
Clement, Pope
Clonmacnoise, Ireland
Clontarf, battle of
Cluain Ferta Brénainn, Ireland
Cnut, king of Denmark and England
Christianity
death
Edmund Ironside and
law codes
Lund
Olav Haraldson and
retainers’ punishment of audacity
Sigvat’s praise-poem
succession to Danish throne
Cnut(St Cnut), king of Denmark
Coimbra, Portugal
Colchester, Essex
Cologne
Columba, Saint
Comgall, Saint
Compostela, bishop of
Conaille, Ireland
Conlaed, casket/reliquary of
Conrad, Holy Roman Emperor
Constantine, king of the Scots
ConstantinePorphyrogenitos, Byzantine emperor
Constantinople
Christianity in Sweden
al-Ghazal’s journey to
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