288 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Notes:
This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Vikings: life and legend" organized by the National Museum of Denmark, the British Museum and the Museum für Vorund Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams The way of the warrior / Neil Price Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams Power & aristocracy / Anne Pedersen Great halls and palaces / Matthias Wemhoff The royal monuments of Jelling / Anne Pedersen Neighbours along the southern Baltic coast / Sunhild Kleingärtner Belief & ritual / Neil Price The Fyrkat woman / Peter Pentz and Neil Price Ritual sites at Lake Tiss / Lars Jorgensen The Oseberg ship and ritual burial / Jan Bill Ships & the Vikings / Peter Pentz Roskilde 6 / Jan Bill Conservation of Roskilde 6 / Kristiane Straetkvern Notes Bibliography-- List of lenders List of exhibits Acknowledgements Illustration credits Index
