Vikings and the danelaw : select papers from the proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress, Nottingham and York, 21-30 August 1997

A Selection Of Papers From The 13th Viking Congress Focusing On The Northern, Central, And Eastern Regions Of Anglo-saxon England Colonised By Invading Danish Armies In The Late 9th Century, Known As The Danelaw. This Volume Contributes To Many Of The Unresolved Scholarly Debates Surrounding The Concept, And Extent Of The Danelaw. Click Here To Download A Pdf Version Of Figure 4.8 The Thirteenth Viking Congress Foreword 1 Defining the Danelaw 2 In search of the vikings: the problems and the possibilities of interdisciplinary approaches 3 The conversion of the Danelaw 4 Repton and the ‘great heathen army’, 873-4 5 Boundaries and cult centres: Viking burial in Derbyshire 6 Pagan Scandinavian burial in the central and southern Danelaw 7 Expansion and control: aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian minting south of the Humber 8 Anglo-Scandinavian urban development in the East Midlands 9 Lincoln in the Viking Age 10 New light on the Viking presence in Lincolnshire: the artefactual evidence 11 The strange beast that is the English Urnes style 12 Five towns funerals: decoding diversity in Danelaw stone sculpture 13 The Southwell lintel, its style and significance 14 Finding the Vikings: the search for Anglo-Scandinavian rural settlementin the northern Danelaw 15 In the steps of the Vikings 16 Scandinavian elements in English place-names: some semantic problems 17 How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England? Again 18 Skaldic verse in Scandinavian England 19 Eddic poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian northern England 20 Representations of the Danelaw in Middle English literature 21 Hereward, the Danelaw and the Victorians