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Authors: Robert Ferguson

The Vikings (72 page)

Svyatoslov, ruler of the Rus
Sweden
Apulia and
Astrid (mother of Olaf Tryggvason) in
Christianity: Anskar’s mission ; Birka ; Orthodox
Cnut’s followers
Harald Hardrada in
Holy River battle
house-trees
Islamic coins in
law
Olaf Tryggvason in
Runamo rock
rune-stones : bridge-building; Frösö ; Gotland; Gripsholm; Sjusta
sacrifice forbidden
ship burials
ship-settings
skaldic poetry
slaves and slavery
Staraja Ladoga settlement
Vårby hoard
Viking Age causes
Vikings in history of
Ynglingasaga
see also
Birka; Blekinge; Bohuslän; Borgeby; Gotland; Lund; Öland; Rus; Sigtuna; Skåne; Södermanland; Uppland; Uppsala;ästergötland; Yngling dynasty
Tacitus
Tadiko, bishop of Sigtuna
Tailtiu, Ireland
Tale of Thorvald Chatterbox
Tamar (river)
Tamdrup church, Denmark
Tamworth
Tara, Ireland
tattoos
Tavistock, Devon
Tegnér, Esaias
Ter (river)
Tettenhall, Staffordshire
Thames (river)
Thanet
Thangbrand, bishop
Theodoricus Monachus
Theophilus, Byzantine Emperor
Thiazzi (giant)
Thietmar of Merseburg
thing
meetings
see also
Althing
Thingvellir, Iceland
see also
Althing
, Iceland
Thingwall, the Wirral
Thjalfi (named on Svinnegarn stone)
Thjodhild (wife of Erik the Red)
Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen
Thor (god)
‘Aurvandil’s Toe’
Christ and
on Gosforth cross
Jól
(midwinter feast)
Perun a form of
at Ragnarök
sacrifice to
storm raising
symbol onæborgsstenen
in
Trymskvadet
in Uppsala temple
Thor (Greenlander)
Thord ‘the Coward’
Thorfin Karsson
Thorfinn Karlsefni
Thorfinn (the Mighty) Sigurdsson, earl of Orkney
Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi
Thorgerdr Holgabrudr (goddess)
Thorgils of Ölfus
Thorkel the Tall
Thorleif (named on Old Kirk Braddan stone)
Thormod (priest)
see also
Turmod (Viking leader)
Thornton Hough
Thorolf Mostrarskegg
Thorsbjerg bog
Thorsnes thing, Iceland
Thorstein (in
Vatnsdaela Saga
)
Thorstein (visitor to King Athelstan)
Thorstein the Staff-struck
Thorstein Egilsson
Thorstein Eriksson
Thorstein Ingolfsson
Thorvald (father of Erik the Red)
Thorvald (Icelandic Christian)
Thorvald the Far-Traveller
Thorvald the Weak
Thurstan (tax-collector)
Thyrwi (mother of Harald Bluetooth)
Tirsted rune-stone
Tissø
see
Lake Tissø
Tjodolf of Hvin
Tmutorokan
Tofi the Proud
Tola (named on Gripsholm stone)
Tomrair, earl
Tønsberg, Norway
Torarin Lovtunge
Torbjørn Hornklovi
Tore (named on Kuli stone)
Torf Einar, earl of Orkney
see also
Einar, earl of Orkney
Torolv Luseskjegg
Torvi, queen (named onæborgsstenen)
Toten, Norway
Toulouse
Towcester
trade
Birka
Danelaw
Gotland
Greenland
Iceland
monasteries
Rome
Rus
York
see also
Reric (trading settlement); slave trade
trade routes
trading vessels (
knarr
)
Trans, Ille-et-Vilaine
trelleborgs
(forts)
Trevet, Ireland
Trier
Trjónn (named on Frösö stone)
Trondheim
see also
Lade
Trudheim
Truvor, prince of the Rus
Trygve Olavsson, king in Vik, Norway
‘Trymskvadet’
Tui, Galicia
Tune ship burial
Tunugdliarfik, Greenland
Turholt monastery, Flanders
Turinge rune-stone
Turmod (Viking leader)
Tury (Varangian)
Tynemouth church
Tynwald, Isle of Man
Ubbi (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Uffi, king
Uhtred, earl in Northumberland
Uí Mécth, Ireland
Ulfkil (maker of Lund walking-stick)
Ulfljot’s laws, Iceland
Ulster king-making ceremony
Ulv (named on Gredby stone)
Ulvljot (named on Kuli stone)
Ulvorsi rapids
Ungava Bay, Labrador
Ungortok (Greenlander chief)
Uni Gardarsson
Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Unway, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Uppland, Norway
Uppland, Sweden
see also
Vendel ship burials
Uppsala, Sweden
Aesir settlement near
archbishopric of
Birka and
rites
temple
Urd’s Well
Utgard
Uunartoq fjord, Greenland
‘Vafthrudnir’s Sayings’
Valhalla
Vallstena, Gotland
Valsgärde ship burials
Vämod (named on Rök stone)
Varangian Guard
Varangians
Vårby hoard
Varin (carver of Rök stone)
Vascony
Väskinde, Gotland
Västergötland, Sweden
Vatnsdaela Saga
Vatnsfjord, Iceland
Vellekla
Vendel ship burials
Verden massacre
Verdun, treaty of
Vestfold, Norway
see also
Gokstad ship burial; Oseberg ship burial
Vetrlidi (Icelandic poet)
Viborg, Denmark
Vik, Norway
Christianity
part of Denmark
‘Viking’ etymology
Vikar, king
Viking Age
‘Viking’ etymology
‘Vikingarvísur’
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vinland
see
North America
Vinland sagas
see also
Saga of Erik the Red
;
Saga of the Greenlanders
Vitichev
Vladimir, ruler of the Rus
Volga (river)
see also
Baltic-Dnieper/Volga trade routes
Volkhov (river)
Völsa thattr
Vortigern, king of Kent
Walcheren
Waldemar the Great, king of Denmark
Wales
Walker, Thomas
Wallace, Birgitta
Wareham
Warriors Hall, Birka
Warwick
Warwickshire
Waterford, Ireland
al-Watwat (historian)
Wearmouth
Wedmore
Weland (Viking leader)
Wells, H. G.
Wessex
burhs
Cnut
Edmund Ironside
‘Great Heathen Army’
law
Mercia and
see also
Athelney
Western Isles
Christianity
cross carvings
Ganger Rolf in
Harald Finehair’s conquest
Iceland settlers from
in Ottar’s journey
part of Orkney earldom
place-names
see also
Inchmarnock; Iona
Western Settlement, Greenland
see also
Ameralik; Austmannadalen
Westminster Abbey
Wexford, Ireland
Wicklow, Ireland
Widukind (Saxon leader)
Widukind of Corvey (monk)
Wihtbordesstan
Wihtred, king of Kent
William the Conqueror
William of Jumièges
William Longsword
William of Malmesbury
Willibrord, Saint
Wiltshire
Winchester
Wirral, the
Witham, Essex
Wolin, Poland
Worcester
Worcester Cathedral
Wulfheard, ealdorman
Wulfhere, archbishop of York
Wulfnoth, ealdorman
Wulfstan, archbishop of York
al-Yaqubi
Yggdrasil
Ymir (giant)
Yngling dynasty
Ynglingasaga
Ynglingatal
York
coin in Brittany
fall of Viking kingdom
‘Great Heathen Army’ and
Harald Hardrada’s capture of
Oda’s negotiation with
Yorkshire
Yule (midwinter feast)
Zealand
see
Sjælland/Sjelland

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