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Acknowledgments | ||
Abbreviations | ||
1 | Introduction: Rocks and Rhymes | 1 |
The Karlevi stone | 1 | |
Runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and the late Viking Age | 6 | |
Literacy and orality | 9 | |
The runic corpus | 12 | |
The skaldic corpus | 15 | |
Semantic study of skaldic verse and runic inscriptions | 33 | |
Sources and conventions | 39 | |
Ships and men in the late Viking Age | 42 | |
2 | Viking Activities | 44 |
Vikings | 44 | |
Death and war | 57 | |
Trade | 63 | |
Pilgrimage | 66 | |
3 | Viking Destinations | 69 |
'East' and 'west' | 69 | |
The western route | 70 | |
The European continent and further south | 80 | |
The eastern route | 89 | |
Scandinavia | 107 | |
4 | Ships and Sailing | 119 |
Words for 'ship' | 120 | |
Names of ships | 136 | |
The ship and its parts | 137 | |
In harbour and on land | 166 | |
The vocabulary of sailing | 171 | |
5 | The Crew, the Fleet and Battles at Sea | 180 |
Manning a ship | 180 | |
The fleet and the troop | 187 | |
Battles at sea | 203 | |
6 | Group and Ethos in War and Trade | 216 |
The group and its vocabulary | 216 | |
The ideology of battle | 243 | |
The symbolism of battle: ravens and banners | 252 | |
Murder and betrayal | 254 | |
Treachery and politics | 261 | |
7 | Epilogue: Kings and Ships | 266 |
From vikings to kings | 266 | |
Royal and other ships in the eleventh century | 269 | |
Works cited | 277 | |
App. I | The runic corpus | 295 |
App. II | The skaldic corpus | 301 |
Index of words and names | 317 | |
General index | 323 |
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