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The World of Orkneyinga Saga
 | Price: £20.00 Supplier: Orkney Museum Publications |
This beautifully illustrated and very interesting book contains articles on the world of the Orkneyinga Saga from a variety of eminent scholars. Some articles are written by historians with a long and intimate knowledge of Orkney and others are written from a Scandinavian perspective.They are densely packed with information and thoughts on the significance of what we learn from the Sagas and from archaeology.
Hardback, 232 pages
Published 2006
ISBN 0954886240
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| Harald Fairhair, Torf Einar and Orkneyinga Saga | William Thomson |
Literature in medieval Orkney | Judith Jesch |
What’s in a word? Folklore contacts between Norsemen and Gaels | Bo Almqvist |
‘Where local knowledge is so valuable’, the earliest Viking Age in Orkney | Raymond Lamb |
Steatite, resource control and the Orkney earldom | Amanda Forster |
The unimportance of early Birsay | Anne Brundle |
Thorfinn, Christianity and Birsay: what the saga tells us and what archaeology reveals | Barbara E Crawford |
Life and death in Orkney during the time of the sagas | Theya Molleson |
The death of Magnus Erlendsson and the relics of St Magnus | Judith Jesch & Theya Molleson |
St Magnus of Orkney: aspects of his cult from a European perspective | Haki Antonsson |
Kirkwall: saga, history, archaeology | Raymond Lamb & Judith Robertson |
History, archaeology and Orkneyinga Saga: the case of Tuquoy | Olwyn Owen |
Svein Asleifarson and 12th-century Orcadian society | James H Barrett |
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