Vikings Across Boundaries

Through a diversity of approaches and with attention to both the homelands and the wider Viking world, this volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the continent and Scandinavia truly became part of Europe.

Hanne Lovise Aannestad is Curator at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway. Unn Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Marianne Moen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Elise Naumann is Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Studies, Oslo, Norway. Heidi Lund Berg is a doctoral research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway.

1. Introducing Vikings Across Boundaries Marianne Moen Part I: Exchange and Travel: Connections Across the Viking World 2. Feasting, Friendship and Alliances: The Socio-political Use of Insular Vessels in Viking-Age Norway Aina Margrethe Heen-Pettersen 3. Viking-Age Landing Places: A Time for Reconsideration? Jens Ulriksen 4. Scandinavians on the Southern Baltic Coast Hauke Jöns and Anna Kowalska 5. Western Finland in the Viking World Ingrid Gustin and Anna Wessman 6. Pre-Viking-Age Ship Burials at Salme in Estonia: The First Eastern Vikings or Indications of a Shared Culture Milieu? Marika Mägi Part II: Communicating Identities: At Home and Abroad 7. Women as Bearers of Cultural Tradition in Viking-Age England Jane Kershaw 8. Urban Way of Life as Identity? A Case Study from Ribe's Emporium Sarah Croix 9. Displaying and (re)Negotiating Identities: Migration and Funerary Rites in Viking-Age Northern Scotland Frida Espolin Norstein 10. 'Vikings' and the Formation of the New Identities and New Centres of Power in the Upper Volga Nikolaj Makarov 11. Sámi Vikings? Hege Skalleberg Gjerde and Jostein Bergstøl 12. Warrior Identities in Viking-Age Scandinavia Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson Part III: Dynamic Social Expressions in Life and Death 13. Socially Significant Viking-Age Housing Frands Herschend 14. The Martial Function of the Central Places in Viking-Age Scandinavia Torun Zachrisson 15. The Dead of the Viking-Age Towns in Scandinavia Sarah Croix 16. A Geography of Slavery: Ceramic Networks and Communities in the Lake Mälaren Valley, Sweden c. AD 950 to 1150 Mats Roslund 17. Warfare and Recruitment in Iron Age Central Norway Ingrid Ystgaard