North Atlantic migrations in the Viking Age
Abstract There are no contemporary descriptions of the migrations that established a Norse culture in the Northern Isles of Scotland (Shetland and the Orkneys), in Caithness and the Hebrides (the Western Isles) in the 8th–9th centuries CE or of the apparent continuation of these, the colonization of...
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Wiley
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm396 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm396 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm396 |
| Summary: | Abstract There are no contemporary descriptions of the migrations that established a Norse culture in the Northern Isles of Scotland (Shetland and the Orkneys), in Caithness and the Hebrides (the Western Isles) in the 8th–9th centuries CE or of the apparent continuation of these, the colonization of the previously uninhabited islands of the Faroes, Iceland, and Greenland in the 9th and 10th centuries. |
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