West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford

• Other Authors: Smith, B.B., Taylor, S., Williams, G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Brill 2007
• Subjects: DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia; Crawford; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/6839/

This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period