Read A Brief History of the Vikings Online
Authors: Jonathan Clements
Buri
20
burial mounds
24
Byrhtnoth
126–7
Byzantine Empire
10–11
,
13
,
99
,
103–5
,
106
,
108–13
,
162
,
190–6
,
215
Cambridge
75
Canninefates
4
Canterbury
171–2
Canute the Great, King of England
167
,
173–4
,
175–9
,
180
,
181–4
,
187
,
194
,
197
,
207
Canute the Holy, King of Denmark (St Canute)
214
Carlingford Lough
73
Carpini, Friar
225
Charles the Bald
62
Charles the Simple
86
Chauci
3–4
Chicago World Fair
53
children, exposure of
144
Chippenham
77
chivalry
160
Christianity
echoes of in Viking sagas
44
,
46–7
Viking conversions to
14
,
61–3
,
64–5
,
78
,
80
,
95–7
,
110–12
,
114–15
,
118
,
120
,
123
,
129–30
,
131–6
,
179
,
180
Cirencester
192
clergy, as targets of Vikings
49
,
52
Cleveland
209
climate, changes in
5
,
44
,
117
,
217–18
,
229
Clonmacnoise
72
Clontarf, battle of
216
Clyde, River
74
Columbus, Christopher
158
,
223
,
224
,
225
Columcille
69
compasses, solar
55
Conrad, Emperor
183
Constantine VII, Emperor
112
Constantine IX, Emperor
195
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Emperor
103
Constantinople
10
,
83
,
99
,
104
,
111–12
,
114
,
190
,
191
,
194
,
195–6
,
215
Viking attacks on
108–10
,
112–13
,
115
constellations
17
Copford
167
Crab Island
221
creation, myth of
19–20
cross-dressing
56
Crusades
67
curachs
138
Cwichelm’s Barrow
167
Dan
24
Daneskin
167–8
Danube, River
110
days of the week
33–4
De Administrando Imperio
103
Delaware river
222
Denmark
attacked by Germany
119–20
burial sites
24
origin of name
24
place-names
19
raids on the Vik
94
Swedish control of
64
and trade routes
59
tribes
3–4
war with Franks
60–3
Derby
77
Derwent, River
211
Diplomatarium Islandicum
143
dísir
36
divorce
56
Dragon’s heads
54
dreams
36
Drevljane tribesmen
110–11
Dristra
113
drums, shamanic
35
Dunvegan Castle
217
Eadric Streona (‘the Acquisitor’)
168
East Anglia
6
,
74
,
79
,
163
,
165
,
171
,
176
,
178
Edgar the Atheling
215
Edgar, King of England
121
Edington, battle of
77
Edith (daughter of Aethelred Unraed)
171
Edmund I, King of England
93
Edmund, King of East Anglia
74–5
Edward the Elder, King of Wessex
78
Edwin, Earl
209
Eggertsson, Gunnar
227
Egil’s Saga
90
Eider, River
60
eiderdown
25
Einar Paunch-shaker
161
,
162–3
,
184
,
202–3
Eindridi
203
Elfsborg
222
Elgar, Edward
8
Ellisif, Princess
190
,
196
,
203
,
208
elves
36
End-Times
44–6
England
foundation of modern
79
invasion of 1066
207–12
navy
169
Norse place-names in
228
Viking raids on
121–2
,
125–9
,
163–78
,
214–15
Erik Bloodaxe
37
,
90–4
,
97
,
116
,
118
,
163
,
209
Erik, Earl of Trondheim
123
,
161
,
162–3
,
176
,
178
,
179
Erik the Red
145–8
,
150
,
152
,
154
,
157
,
219
Erik the Victorious
56
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
130
Erik’s Saga
152
Eríkssonur, Leif
xiv
Erp
143
Eyjolf the Lame
56
Eystein the Bad
95
Eystein Orri
212
Eyvind Kelda
132
Eyvind the Plagerist
56
famine
166
Fárbauti
38
Fatimid Caliphate
192
Finland/Finns
12
,
13
,
14
,
32
,
37
,
99
,
99–100
,
180–1
Finnmark
85
fires, sacred
35
Folkstone
125
Formosus, Pope
78
Franks/Francia
4
,
6
,
50
,
59
,
65
,
104
,
124
,
129
,
170
,
173
alliance with Wessex
75
grant land to Vikings
86
war with Saxons and Danes
60–2
Freydis (daughter of Erik the Red)
157–8
Freyfaxi
23
Frisia
61
Funen
24
futhark
runic alphabet
xiii
Fuzhou
11
fylgjur
36
Fyn
65
Gainsborough
173
Galti, Snaebjorn
146
Gandalf
82
gandir
36
Gannascus
4
Gardar the Swede
139
Garm
45
Gate Fulford
209
Gaul
see
Franks/Francia
Geira, Princess
124
Georgia
114
Geysa, Thorkel
200–1
Ginnungagap
19
Goda
125
Godard Point, Maine
214
Godric
127
gods
German
34
Godwinson
see
Harold II
Graiae
21
grave-goods
24
,
28
,
53
,
57
,
67
,
98–9
,
105
,
106
,
108
,
170
Great Army, Viking
75–6
Great Heathen Host
66–80
,
164
,
208
Greek fire
109
Greenland
colonisation of
147–8
,
158–9
,
217
discovery of
146–7
Inuits in
218–20
last Vikings in
218–21
under Norwegian rule
218
Greenlander Saga
149
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
157
Greenwich
172
Gregory, Father
111
Grendel
25
Grimnismal
17
Grjotgarth
117
Gulathing Law
83
Gunnhild Kingsmother
37
,
56
,
90–1
,
93
,
94
,
97
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
123
,
124
Gunnhild (sister of Forkbeard)
165
Gunnhilde (daughter of Canute)
183
Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
128
Gunroth the Generous
58