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T HE S CANDINAVIAN I RON A GE
C HRONOLOGY AND R EGIONAL T ERMINOLOGIES
Subdivisions: EARLY IRON AGE
Dates: 5000 BCE
Norway: Pre-Roman Iron Age
Sweden: Pre-Roman Iron Age
Denmark: Celtic Iron Age
Dates: 0400 CE
Norway: Roman Iron Age
Sweden: Roman Iron Age
Denmark: Roman Iron Age
Subdivisions: LATE IRON AGE
Dates: 400550 CE
Norway: Migration Period
Sweden: Migration Period
Denmark: Early Germanic Iron Age
Dates: 550750 CE
Norway: Merovingian Period
Sweden: Vendel Period
Denmark: Late Germanic Iron Age
Dates: 7501050 CE
Norway: Viking Age
Sweden: Viking Age
Denmark: Viking Age
Map 1. Simplified political and ethnic geography of Europe c. 565 CE, showing the changes resulting from the preceding decades of crisis. The borders of the Eastern Roman Empire are depicted as they stood at the death of the Emperor Justinian. Map by Neil Price.
Map 2. Scandinavian tribal groupings, legal districts, and kingdoms, from sources dating c. 5001350 CE, including the Getica of Jordanes (c. 551) and the tenth-century English poem Widsith . Map by and Ingvild T. Bckman and Frode Iversen, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, used by kind permission.
Map 3. Places assaulted in the first phase of Viking raiding, 793833 CE, with the European coastal emporia and the major settlements of Scandinavia. Map by Ben Raffield and Daniel Lwenborg.
Map 4. The successive Viking assaults on the British isles and Frankia, 834999, with the bases established in Ireland, in England, and on the Continent. Map by Ben Raffield and Daniel Lwenborg.
Map 5. The great Mediterranean raid of c. 859862, allegedly commanded by Bjrn Ironside and Hstein. The path of the Viking fleet can be traced southward from its base at Noirmoutier in the Loire estuary, around the coasts of Frankia and Iberia, and into the Middle Sea itself; three years later, a third of the ships made it home, having spent time somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean and fought the passage of the Gibraltar Straits (Nrvasund). Map by Neil Price.
Map 6. The Viking diaspora in the East, to Byzantium, the Steppe, and beyond. The river routes from the Baltic to the Black Sea, dominated by the Rus, connected seamlessly with the caravans of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Silk Roads, extending far into Asia. Map by Ben Raffield, Daniel Lwenborg, and Neil Price.
Map 7. The later Viking Age in Scandinavia and the North Sea, from the reign of Harald Bluetooth (c. 960987) to the empire of Knut the Great (c. 10161035). The six known Trelleborg-type circular fortresses are shown: (1) Aggersborg, (2) Fyrkat, (3) Nonnebakken, (4) Trelleborg, (5) Borgring, (6) Borgeby. Map by Ben Raffield and Daniel Lwenborg.
Map 8. The Norse in the North Atlantic. Iceland was settled c. 870 and quickly attracted a large population. Just over a century later, Icelanders founded the Eastern and Western Settlements in Greenland, and in turn sailed to what is now eastern Canada. The precise location of the regions they named Helluland, Markland, and Vinland can only be estimated, and LAnse aux Meadows on Newfoundland remains the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America. Map by Neil Price.
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Copyright 2020 by Neil Price
Cover design by Chin-Yee Lai
Cover images: The Gokstad Longship (photo), Viking (9th century) / Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway / Bridgeman Images; Alin Brotea / Shutterstock.com
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Price, Neil S., author.
Title: Children of ash and elm : a history of the Vikings / Neil Price.
Other titles: History of the Vikings
Description: First edition. | New York : Basic Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020001863 | ISBN 9780465096985 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780465096992 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Vikings. | Northmen. | Civilization, Viking. | Viking antiquities.
Classification: LCC DL65 .P68 2020 | DDC 948/.022dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001863
ISBNs: 978-0-465-09698-5 (hardcover), 978-0-465-09699-2 (ebook)
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For the fylgjur , all of them
A GREAT DEAL OF THIS book concerns beings, places, and concepts whose names in use today ultimately derive either from the Old Norse language (actually a shorthand term for a complex array of dialects and linguistic branches from Iceland and Scandinavia, dating to the Middle Ages and earlier) or from the modern tongues of the Nordic countries. This can be a complex soundscape to navigate, and there is no simple way that it can be normalised in an English text while also doing justice to its original variety. I have opted for readability and convention over consistency, and the language has been simplified here in several ways.
Two Old Norse (and modern Icelandic) letters have been anglicised, except when quoting texts in the original and certain names: / or thorn, as th and pronounced as the first two letters of th ought; and / or eth, spoken more softly as in brea th e but usually rendered as d. In the same way, the Old Norse diphthong has been separated ae and is pronounced approximately eye.
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