Ireland before the Vikings (The Gill history of Ireland)
✍ Scribed by Gearoid Mac Niocaill
- Publisher
- Gill and Macmillan
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 179
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
This multi-disciplinary volume draws on the combined expertise of specialists in the history and literature of medieval Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and Scotland to shed new light on the interplay of Norse and Gaelic literary traditions. Through four detailed case-studies, which examine the Norwegian '
Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian i
Burials with oval brooches from the Viking Age settlements in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland have frequently been interpreted as the graves of a specific and uniform group of people: (pagan) Scandinavian women of relatively high status. This interpretation is partly a result of the way in which the m