The Vikings in Ireland

✍ Scribed by Anne-Christine Larsen

• Publisher: Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This compilation of 13 papers by scholars from Ireland, England and Denmark, consider the extent and nature of Viking influence in Ireland. Created in close association with exhibitions held at the National Musem of Ireland in 1998-99 and at the National Ship Museum in Roskilde in 2001, the papers discuss aspects of religion, art, literature and placenames, towns and society, drawing together thoughts on the exchange of culture and ideas in Viking Age Ireland and the extent to which existing identities were maintained, lost or assimilated.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Prologue......Page 10
J.J.A. Worsaae in Ireland – another letter from Dublin......Page 12
Notes......Page 17
The Vikings in Ireland......Page 18
The Viking Impact upon Ireland......Page 30
Location......Page 38
Layout......Page 40
Defences......Page 43
Hiberno-Norse town buildings......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 50
Introduction......Page 52
Hoards in Ireland......Page 53
Silver sources......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 60
Introduction......Page 62
History......Page 63
Distribution......Page 64
Female graves......Page 67
Male graves......Page 69
Miscellaneous artefacts......Page 72
Burials with horses and other animal remains......Page 73
Christian influences......Page 75
Notes......Page 76
Introduction......Page 78
Patrick and Armagh......Page 79
The Cult of the Saints......Page 80
Christian and Viking......Page 84
Reformation......Page 87
Insular metalwork in Viking hands......Page 88
10th-century sculpture in wood and stone......Page 91
Late Viking Age influences......Page 92
Summary and conclusions......Page 97
Acknowledgements......Page 98
The Vikings in Medieval Irish Literature......Page 100
Notes......Page 106
Nordic Names and Loanwords in Ireland......Page 108
Notes......Page 114
Introduction......Page 116
Scandinavian architecture......Page 117
The artefacts of daily life......Page 118
The character of the settlement......Page 120
The Scandinavian link......Page 121
The Irish link......Page 122
Scandinavian exit......Page 125
Acknowledgements......Page 127
The history of the Vikings in Ireland......Page 128
The first attacks – 795-830s......Page 129
The Vikings were not the only sinners......Page 130
912-1170. New attacks and integration......Page 131
Brian Ború and Turgesius – two famous personalities......Page 132
Berdal brooches from Kilmainham, Dublin......Page 133
Who were they?......Page 134
Viking Age Waterford, Wexford and Cork......Page 135
Dublin Viking Age House......Page 136
Dress pins......Page 137
Coins......Page 138
Hoards, ingots and hacksilver......Page 139
Monasteries......Page 140
Roosky, Co. Donegal. A hoard of Viking silver bracelets......Page 141
Decorated Wood......Page 142
Book of Kells Written c. 800 A.D.......Page 143
Loan-words......Page 145
Place-names......Page 146
The meeting of cultures – the Vikings and the Irish Differences......Page 147
The meeting of cultures and the integration......Page 148
The time of fundamental changes in both societies......Page 149
The earliest contact......Page 150
The Middle Ages......Page 152
The 18th century......Page 153
The 19th century......Page 155
Prior to the Irish independence......Page 156
The younger days of the Republic......Page 157
Ireland since the Second World War......Page 159
Notes......Page 165
References......Page 166