Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

Griffiths, David

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“…112 In 2004 a cemetery of six furnished graves was discovered slightly further north at Cumwhitton; the artefacts include Insular strap-ends and spurs, but also some Scandinavian-style weapons and costumes. 113 In general the furnished burials seem to date to the early tenth century and reflect pagan, Scandinavian traditions. Those responsible had little in common with the kings of Strathclyde in cultural and religious terms, and so it is uncertain whether they were susceptible to political accommodation.…”

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The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde

Edmonds

2015

Early Medieval Europe

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The kingdom of Strathclyde was focused on the Clyde valley and ruled by a Brittonic‐speaking dynasty. Historians have traditionally argued that the kingdom expanded southwards in the early tenth century, with the result that there was a revival of Brittonic language. Several scholars have recently challenged this interpretation, but in this article I defend the view that Strathclyde expanded southwards, and I propose a new model for the process. I argue that the kings of Strathclyde took submissions from the local nobility, who included Northumbrian and Gaelic‐Scandinavian magnates. This accounts for the multicultural nature of the kingdom in its heyday.

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The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde

Edmonds

2015

Early Medieval Europe

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Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation

Ellis

2021

History Compass

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The Vikings are an excellent example of the significance of cultural memory: from post-Viking-Age sources to their rediscovery in the Victorian period to their popular appeal in current times. Ancestry is a key dimension as vikings could be dynasty founders or imbue a region with Scandinavian heritage. The importance of settlements remaining connected with Iceland and the Old Norse cultural milieu is highlighted. Archaeological evidence and non-Scandinavian sources can highlight the gaps in Norse memory, where specific events have been forgotten and some regions of the Viking world have received less attention than others.Stretching from America to Russia, the impact of postmedieval political events, of modern marketisation and of different scholarly approaches is also considered.

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

Abstract: et al., Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature, Earth-Science Reviews (2020),

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The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde

The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde

Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation

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