The Identity and International Relations of Orkney and Dublin in the long Eleventh Century

• Main Author: Ellis, Caitlin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2018
• Subjects: Vikings; Scotland; Ireland; medieval; Britain; Scandinavia; Norway; Abrams; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.22516; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275327

This thesis investigates the concept of ‘diaspora’ as it applies to the Scandinavian settlements of Orkney and Dublin in the eleventh century. Comparative analysis identifies how key differences in the settlements’ location and make-up affected their dynamic, and even opportunistic, set of relations...