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Title:
Vikings : life and legend / edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, and Matthias Wemhoff.
Author:
Williams, Gareth, 1969- editor.

Pentz, Peter, editor.

Wemhoff, Matthias, editor.

Kleingärtner, Sunhild. Contacts & exchange.

Nationalmuseet (Denmark), host institution.

British Museum, host institution.

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin, Germany), host institution.
Publication Information:
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
DL65 .V569 2014
Added Uniform Title:
Vikings (Essays : Williams, Pentz, and Wemhoff)
ISBN:
9780801479427
Physical Description:
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
General Note:
Catalog of the exhibition organized by the National Museum of Denmark, the British Museum, and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Contents:
Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams ; Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams ; Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen ; Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams ; The way of the warrior / Neil Price ; Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland ; Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams -- Power & aristocracy / Anne Pedersen ; Great halls and palaces / Matthias Wemhoff ; The royal monuments of Jelling / Anne Pedersen ; Neighbours along the southern Baltic coast / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Belief & ritual / Neil Price ; The Fyrkat woman / Peter Pentz and Neil Price ; Ritual sites at Lake Tissø / Lars Jørgensen ; The Oseberg ship and ritual burial / Jan Bill -- Ships & the Vikings / Peter Pentz ; Roskilde 6 / Jan Bill ; Conservation of Roskilde 6 / Kristiane Straetkvern.
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