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The Viking age : Ireland and the West : papers from the proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005
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The Viking age : Ireland and the West : papers from the proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005

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Conversion and the Church in Viking-age Ireland / Lesley Abrams
Runic inscriptions and Viking-age Ireland / Michael Barnes & Jan Ragnar Hagland
The Dunmore Cave [2] hoard and the role of coins in the tenth-century Hiberno-Scandinavian economy / Kristin Bornholdt Collins
Ragnarök and the stones of York / Paul C. Buckland
Unsung heroes : the Irish and the Viking wars / Howard B. Clarke
Peaceful wars and scientific invaders: Irishmen, Vikings and palynological evidence for the earliest settlement of the Faroe Islands /rKevin J. Edwards & Douglas B. Borthwick
Laithlinn, 'Fair Foreigners' and 'Dark Foreigners' : the identity and provenance of Vikings in ninth-century Ireland / Colmán Etchingham
Place-names as evidence for urban settlements in Britain in the Viking period / Gillian Fellows-Jensen
Ribe : continuity or discontinuity from the eighth to the twelfth century? / Claus Feveile
. Norwegian crosses in the Hebrides and Shetland? / Ian Fisher
Late Viking-Age runestones in Uppland : some gender aspects / Anne-Sofie Gräslund
Weapons and warfare in Viking-age Ireland / Andrew Halpin
Suffolk Street sword : further notes on the College Green cemetery, Dublin / Stephen H. Harrison
Who were the Papar? : typological structures in Íslendingabók / Pernille Hermann
Viking elements in Irish towns : Cork and Waterford / Maurice F. Hurley
Warrior ideal in the Late Viking Age / Judith Jesch
Vikings in Conemara / Eamonn Kelly
Dotted runes : where did they come from? / James E. Knirk
Kirkwall revisited / Raymond Lamb
Viking-age and Norse poetry in the Hebrides / Alan M. Lane
Viking-age queens and the formation of identity / Shannon Lewis-Simpson
The ledung and the continuity of warfare from the Viking age to the middle ages : the example of Sweden / Thomas Lindkvist
. Baptism of Harald Bluetooth / Niels Lund
King Magnus Bareleg's adventures in the West : the making of a king{u2019}s saga / Else Mundal
Urbanism and Christianity in Norway / Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
Rebuiling the 'city of angels' : Muirchertach Ua Briain and Glendalough, c.1096{u2013}1111 / Tomás Ó Carragáin
Culture clashes? : the human remains from the Wood Quay excavations / Barra O{u2019}Donnabhain
tSurtshellir : a fortified outlaw cave in West Iceland / Guðmundur Ólafsson, Kevin P. Smith & Thomas McGovern
Women in early towns / Ingvild {u01FE}ye
Bridging the distribution gap : inscribed swords from Denmark / Anne Pedersen
Ninth-century Viking entries in the Irish annals : no 'forty years' rest' / Emer Purcell
Metal detector and the Viking Age in England / Julian D. Richards & John Naylor
From Scandinavia to Spain : a Viking-age reliquary in León and its meaning / Else Roesdahl
. Sagas and courtly love / Daniel Sävborg
Life and death among the Picts and Vikings at Westness / Berit J. Sellevold
Colonel Sempronius Stretton and the reprovenancing of a Viking-age hoard / John Sheehan
Weapons and warfare in Icelandic place-names / Svavar Sigmundsson
Finglas burial : archaeology and ethnicity in Viking-Age Dublin / Maeve Sikora
First phase of Viking activity in Ireland : archaeological evidence from Dublin / Linzi Simpson
Close ties and long-range relations : the emporia network in early Viking-age exchange / Søren M. Sindbæck
Ailikn's wagon and Óðinn's warriors : the pictures on the Gotlandic Andre monuments / Þórgunmur Snædal
Ulfberht revisited : a classification / Anne Stalsberg
Toftanes and the early Christianity of the Faroe Islands / Steffen Stummann Hansen
Cosmic aspects of sanctuaries in Viking-age Scandinavia with comparisons to the West-Slavic area / Olof Sundqvist
. Making of a centre : the case of Reykhold, Iceland / Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
Ethnicity and class in settlement-period Iceland / Orri Vésteinsson
Hedeby, the settlement and the harbour : old data and recent research / Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Volker Hilberg, Scen Kalmring & Joachim Schultze
Plot-use and access in an eleventh-century Dublin building level / Patrick F. Wallace
On eið-names in Orkney and other North Atlantic islands / Doreen Waugh
Textiles that work for their living : a late eleventh-century cloth from Cork, Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett.

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