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Author | : Alan Macniven |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2015-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788853695 |
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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.
Author | : Alan Macniven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Islay (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781780271354 |
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This title challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of Viking settlement in the Inner Hebrides. Using place names, it uncovers the murky events in Islay 1200 years ago when Viking settlers from Norway clashed with the indigenous Scots of Dalriada.
Author | : Michelle Styles |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1488021147 |
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In her captor's bed! Women are not part of Sigurd Sigmundson's existence, and Eilidith should purely be a means to an end to gain access to a well-guarded Viking stronghold. He would have to be made of iron, though, not to be stirred by the warmly sensual woman beneath her ice-cold shield. Liddy has been made to feel ugly and insignificant because of her facial birthmark. Surely her captor couldn't physically desire her? But, oh, how the stifled, passionate Liddy yearns to experience unrestrained love in his arms…
Author | : Tim Clarkson |
Publisher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907909257 |
Download Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an ancient people whose kings ruled from a power-base at Govan on the western side of present-day Glasgow. In the tenth century, these kings extended their rule southward from Clydesdale to the southern shore of the Solway Firth, bringing their language and culture to a region that had been in English hands for more than two hundred years. They played a key role in many of the great political events of the time, whether leading their armies in battle or forging treaties to preserve a fragile peace. Their extensive realm, which was also known as 'Cumbria', was eventually conquered by the Scots, but is still remembered today in the name of an English county. How this county acquired the name of a long-vanished kingdom centred on the River Clyde is one of the topics covered in this book.It is part of a wider history that forms an important chapter in the story of how England and Scotland emerged from the early medieval period or 'Dark Ages' as the countries we know today.
Author | : James Graham-Campbell |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2019-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474468624 |
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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.
Author | : Paul Hardwick |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476673748 |
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This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of Ragnar Loobrok--and the exploits of his heirs--creating what many viewers label a "true" representation of the age. From the show's sources in both saga literature and Victorian revival, to its engagement with contemporary concerns regarding gender, race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of the History Channel series appeals to fans of the show, Viking enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in medievalist representation in the 21st century.
Author | : Alexander Fenton |
Publisher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907909214 |
Download An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The publication of An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context. Each of the thirteen volumes already published focuses on a particular theme or institution within Scottish society. This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.
Author | : Martin Mitchell |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 178885411X |
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The prevailing historical view of the Catholic Irish in the first half of nineteenth-century Scotland is that they were despised by native workers because of their religion and because most were employed as strike-breakers or low-wage labour. As a result of this hostility, the Catholic immigrants were viewed as a separate isolated community, concerned mainly with Irish and Catholic issues and unable or unwilling to participate in trade unions, strikes and radical reform movements. The Protestant Irish immigrants, on the other hand, were believed to have integrated with little difficulty, mainly because of religious, families and cultural ties with the Scots. This study presents a radically different view. It demonstrates that, whereas some Irish workers were used as a blackleg or cheap labour, others participated in trade unions and strikes alongside native workers, most notably in spinning, weaving and mining industries. The various agitations for political change in the region are analysed, revealing that the Irish – Catholic and Protestant – were significantly involved in all of them. It is also shown that Scottish reformers welcomed, and indeed actively sought, Catholic Irish participation. The campaigns for Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the Act of Union of 1800 are reviewed, as are the attitudes of the Scottish Catholic clergy to the political activities of their overwhelmingly Irish congregations.
Author | : Joseph Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : |
Download Notes on the Contents of Two Viking Graves in Islay, Discovered by William Campbell, Esq., of Ballinaby Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Anne Pedersen |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 877184936X |
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The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.