Links to Additional Material
(Additional material posted for students on the University of Oxford online course: Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers)
Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers – Further Reading
Videos:
Additional Material Unit 1
“Keep your head high: skulls on stakes and cranial trauma in Mesolithic Sweden”
Sandby Borg Migration Period Ringfort
“Scandinavians Shaped by Several Waves of Immigration”
The Gundestrup Cauldron
“Scandinavia before the Viking Age”
“The Scandinavians at Home”
The Term Viking
Uncovering an Iron Age Chieftain’s Longhouse
“Gjellestad: a newly discovered ‘central place’ in south-east Norway”
The Dark Ages?
Additional Material Unit 2
“Finland”
“The Saami in Scandinavia”
“The Sámi and their interaction with the Nordic Peoples”
“Hedeby in Wulfstan’s days: a Danish emporium of the Viking Age between East and West”
Maeshowe Runes
“Rounding up the usual suspects: Causation and the Viking Age diaspora”
The Salme Ship Burials
Ohthere and Wulfstan at the Court of King Alfred
A Possible Shaman Staff from Finland
Additional Material Unit 3
“Escaping the Vikings: Souterrains in County Louth, Ireland”
Overwintering Sites of the Great Army
“Picts on the Peninsula”
Viking Dig Reports
“The Winter Camp of the Viking Great Army, AD 872-3”
Viking Swords
“An Iona of the East: The Early-medieval Monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness”
Additional Material Unit 4
Executed Vikings found in Dorset
“London: Archaeological Evidence for the Events of 886 and its Aftermath”
History of English: Scandinavian Period
Scandanvian Origins of Place-Names in Britain
Alfred, Guthrum and Christianity: The Peace of Wedmore
London and the Vikings: Late Saxon London
Viking Settlement in the Wirral
“Environmental evidence from Viking Age York”
Additional Material Unit 5
Jarlshof – the Viking Age Settlement
Jarlshof from above
Norwegian Vikings purchased silk from Persia
Persian silk worn by Vikings, researcher finds
The Settlement Exhibition Reykjavík 871±2
“Viking and Medieval Settlement in the Faroes: People, Place and Environment”
“A Viking-age Valley in Iceland: The Mosfell Archaeological Project”
“Patterns of Settlement in Iceland: a Study in Prehistory”
The Lewis Chessmen Website
The Vikings in Orkney
Additional Material Unit 6
The Byzantine Empire – Constantinople
“A Viking Period Workshop in Staraya Ladoga, excavated in 1997”
“The Way to the East”
Digging for 10th-Century Vikings in Russia
“Royal Guard Grave in Kiev”
Scandinavian Grave Finds in Kiev
The Terms Rus and Varangian
The Varangian Rus 1/3
The Varangian Rus 2/3
The Varangian Rus 3/3
Additional Material Unit 7
National Geographic – Vikings and Native Americans: Face to Face
The Discovery of Vinland
‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA
Interpretation of faunal remains from Norse sites in Greenland
The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland
Why did Greenland’s Vikings vanish?
Additional Material Unit 8
A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed By Genomics
Bláklædda Konan – The Lady in Blue
“Dying and the Dead: Viking Age Mortuary Behaviour”
Orphir Earl’s Bu and Round Church
Pagan Cult Sites
“Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw”
The Royal Danish Necropolis at Jelling
“Viking’s Afterlife Voyage”
Wayland the Smith in Britain and Scandinavia
Additional Material Unit 9
Viking Ireland 8 – Legacy of the Vikings in Ireland
Icelandic Saga Map
“The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland”
Völsunga Saga in Literature and Art
Women and Magic in the Sagas: Seiðr and Spá
Sagas and Archaeology in the Mosfell Valley, Iceland
Four short articles on Viking Art:
“Gold- and silver-smithing”
“Wood-carving”
“Bone, antler, amber and walrus ivory”
“Twelfth-century wooden sculpture”
Additional Material Unit 10
Cnut the Great and his Empire
Trelleborg
1016 and all that: Excavating the Viking conquest of England
“Scandinavia and Europe around 1200”
“Pilgrimages and Crusades “
The Development of Nation States (riki):
“The Creation of Norway”
“The Emergence of Denmark and the reign of Harald Bluetooth”
“The Emergence of Sweden”