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Scandinavian Scotland

Author : B. E. Crawford
Publisher : Leicester University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Scandinavian Scotland written by B. E. Crawford and published by Leicester University. This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings within its scope all those areas of present-day Scotland (and the Isle of Man) influenced by Scandinavian peoples, whether Norwegian, Danish or Irish-Norse, from the beginning of the Viking raids to the death of the great earl of Orkney, Thorfinn 'the Mighty' (c. 1065). A maritime realm with no territorial unity, this area ranges from the Orkney and Shetland Islands across northern Scotland and down the Hebrides to the Irish Sea, and it came under lasting, and in some areas permanent, influence from Viking raids and Norse settlement.

Scotland in Europe

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 940120358X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Scotland in Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If there is ocht in Scotland that’s worth ha’en / There is nae distance to which it’s unattached" – Hugh MacDiarmid A realignment of Scottish literary studies is long overdue. The present volume counters the relative neglect of comparative literature in Scotland by exploring the fortunes of Scottish writing in mainland Europe, and, conversely, the engagement of Scottish literary intellectuals with European texts. Most of the contributions draw on the online Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation. Together they demonstrate the richness of the creative dialogue, not only between writers, but also between musicians and visual artists when they turn their attention to literature. The contributors to this volume cover most of Europe, including the German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, France, Catalonia, Portugal, Italy, the Balkans, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia. All Scotland's major literary languages – Gaelic, Scots, English and Latin – are featured in a continent-wide labyrinth that will repay further exploration.

Vikings in Scotland

Author : James Graham-Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468624
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Vikings in Scotland written by James Graham-Campbell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.Scotland Before the Vikings --2.Norwegian Background --3.Sources for Scandinavian Scotland --4.Regional Survey Part I: Northern Scotland --5.Regional Survey Part II: the West Highlands and Islands --6.Regional Survey Part III: South-West, Central, Eastern and Southern Scotland --7.Pagan Norse Graves Part I: Case Studies --8.Pagan Norse Graves Part II: Interpretation --9.Viking Period Settlements --10.Late Norse Settlements --11.Norse Economy --12.Silver and Gold --13.Earls and Bishops.

Scotland and Scandinavia, 800-1800

Author : Grant G. Simpson
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland and Scandinavia, 800-1800 written by Grant G. Simpson and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers delivered at the first annual Mackie Symposium for historical study of Scotland's overseas links, held at the University of Aberdeen in September 1987.

Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004138072
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Sagas, Saints and Settlements written by Gareth Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

Scots-Scandinavian Links in Europe and America, 1550-1850

Author : David Dobson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806352698
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Scots-Scandinavian Links in Europe and America, 1550-1850 written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 17th century, tens of thousands of Scots settled in Scandinavia, and a number of them would eventually become engaged as planters and merchants in the Danish colony of the Virgin Islands. Leaving no aspect of Scottish emigration to go unaddressed, David Dobson here identifies about 1,200 Scots who took up residence in Scandinavia and some of whose progeny made their way to the Americas.

The Galloway Hoard

Author : Martin Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910682401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Galloway Hoard written by Martin Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cache of over 100 gold, silver and other items, the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, was unearthed by a metal detectorist in 2014. A large fundraising campaign ensured that what has come to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Having lain undiscovered since the beginning of the 10th century, it now provides an extremely rare opportunity to research and reveal many lost aspects of the Viking Age. There is a chance to see the treasure at the National Museum of Scotland 18 February - 18 October 21. The exhibition will subsequently go on tour to Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen and Dundee.The accompanying book places the hoard in a wider historical context and showcases the conservation and research work currently being undertaken to understand the hoard and its secrets. Exhibition: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (29.05.-12.09.2021) / Kirkcudbright Galleries, UK (10.2021) / Aberdeen Archives, UK (2022).

The Norwegian Scots

Author : Michael A. Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norwegian Scots written by Michael A. Lange and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines theoretical models drawn from folklore studies and anthropology to analyze the construction of cultural identity among the inhabitants of the Orkney Islands off the Northern Coast of Scotland. This work should appeal to scholars interested in anthropology, Scottish history, Scandinavian studies, ethnography, and folklore. by people in everyday interactions) in the process of creating and maintaining cultural identity in relation to the inhabitants of the Orkney Islands off the Northern Coast of Scotland. These narratives serve as the means by which a community negotiates and forms its self-identity and, therefore, provide a suitable window onto this cultural negotiation process. Combining symbolic interpretive theory from anthropology with performance theory from folklore, this analysis illuminates narrative as a cultural tool used to construct various identities, concepts of communality and community. This analysis, being directed towards the Orkney Islands, seeks to understand Orcadian identity in both its own perception of its separateness from mainland Scotland and the way in which it draws heavily on a sense of Scandinavian identity.

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages

Author : Pauline Stafford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118499476
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Early Middle Ages written by Pauline Stafford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings

Publications of the Scottish History Society

Author : Scottish History Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publications of the Scottish History Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West Over Sea

Author : Beverley Ballin Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158936
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book West Over Sea written by Beverley Ballin Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period.Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.

The Scottish Parliament

Author : David Arter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135768757
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Parliament written by David Arter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy with several features of a Scandinavian-style parliament. The basic research question, therefore, is: 'Has the Scottish Parliament in its first four-year term manifested a Scandinavian-style politics in the sense that there has been a high incidence of inter-party negotiation within Parliament?' The architects of the Scottish Parliament saw the committees as the motor of a 'new politics' and gave them extensive powers. Outside Austria, only the Swedish and Icelandic committees have comparable powers. Accordingly, the study sets out to describe and analyse the workings of the committees in the Scottish, Swedish and Icelandic Parliaments. The concluding chapter also discusses the operation of the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian committees.

Scotland before the Industrial Revolution

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317900022
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Scotland before the Industrial Revolution written by Ian D. Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England. The result sets the development of Scotland within its British context and beyond, in a book that will interest and delight far more than Scottish specialists alone.

The Vikings in Islay

Author : Alan Macniven
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853695
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Vikings in Islay written by Alan Macniven and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebridean island of Islay is well-known for its whisky, its wildlife and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the hands of marauding Northmen during the Viking Age. Despite a pivotal location on the 'sea road' from Norway to Ireland, there are no convincing records of the Vikings ever having been there. In recent years, historians have been keen to marginalise the island's Viking experience, choosing instead to focus on the enduring stability of native Celtic culture, and tracing the island's modern Gaelic traditions back in an unbroken chain to the dawn of the Christian era. However, the foundations of this presumption are flawed. With no written accounts to go by, the real story of Islay's Viking Age has to be read from another type of source material - the silent witness of the names of local places. The Vikings in Islay presents a systematic review of around 240 of the island's farm and nature names. The conclusions drawn turn traditional assumptions on their head. The romance of Islay's names, it seems, masks a harrowing tale of invasion, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

The Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland

Author : George Henderson
Publisher : The Grian Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland written by George Henderson and published by The Grian Press. This book was released on 1910 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Scotland

Author : Andrew D. M. Barrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586023
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Scotland written by Andrew D. M. Barrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland from the eleventh century to the Reformation.