The Vikings (70 page)
Authors: Robert Ferguson
Lebuin (missionary)
Leicester
see also
Five Boroughs
Five Boroughs
Leif (Iceland settler)
Leif Eriksson
Leire, Zealand
lenses
Leo, Byzantine emperor
Leo, Pope
Leo Diakonus
Leofrun, abbess
Leofsige, alderman
Léon, Spain
Leowin (named on Lund penholder)
Lévi-Provencal, Évariste
Liafdag, bishop of Ribe
Liège monastery
Liemar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Liestøl, Aslak
Liffey (river)
see also
Dublin
Dublin
Lillmyr pit, Gotland
‘Lily-stones’
Limerick, Ireland
Lincolnshire
Lindibelti
Lindisfarne
‘Great Heathen Army’ and
Viking raid on
Lindisfarne stone
Lindsey, England
Lisbon
Liuprand, bishop of Cremona
Liza (river)
Llychlyn
see also
Lochlainn
Lochlainn
Lochlainn
see also
Llychlyn
Llychlyn
Lochlainn, king of
Lofoten Islands, Norway
Loire (river)
Loki (god)
Lolland, Denmark
London
London Bridge
Long Gill, Forest of Bowland
longships
see
ships
see
ships
Lordemanos, Spain
Lordemão, Portugal
Lothar, king of Lotharingia
Lothar, king of Lotharingia
Lotharingia
Lothlend
see
Lochlainn
see
Lochlainn
Lothroc, king of the Danes
Louis, king of the Franks
Louis(d’Outremer), king of the Franks
Louis the Child, king of the eastern Franks
Louis the German, king of the eastern Franks
Louis the Pious, king of the Franks
death
Klak-Harald and
Rus and
Theophilus’s envoys to
see also
Carolingian empire
Carolingian empire
Lowgill, Forest of Bowland
Lugbad, Ireland
Luna/Lucca, Italy
Lund, Anker
Lund, Sweden
Lyusufjord, Greenland
al-madjus
Mael Sechnaill, king
Mære, Norway
magic
see
divination;
ni
ð
stöng
see
divination;
ni
ð
stöng
Magnus Olavsson (the Good), king of Norway
Magnus Sigurdsson
Magyars
Maine, Normandy
Majorca
Maldon, Essex
Mammen style
Man
see
Isle of Man
see
Isle of Man
Margrethe, queen of Denmark
Markland
Marx-Etzel bog
Massachusetts
Mauritania
Meaux, France
Medina-Sidonia
Mediterranean, the
Melvinger, Arne
Mercia
Alfred and
Cnut and
Danelaw and
‘Great Heathen Army’ and
Northumbrian Danes invade
Viking raids in
Wessex and
Méresias, abbey
Meretun
Michael, Byzantine emperor
Middlesex
Middleton, Yorkshire
Midgard
Midgard serpent
Mieszko, ruler of Poland
Mill Bay, Orkney
Mimir
Miño (river)
Minorca
Mont-St-Michel
Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Morocco
Mosedale, Cumberland
Mosser, Cumberland
Moster, Norway
see also
Bømlo
Bømlo
Móthir (mother of Heimdall’s child)
Mstislav, ruler of Kiev
Mucnám, Ireland
Mulde parish, Gotland
Mundaka, Spain
Munn, W. A.
Murchad mac Máeleúin, king of Ailech
music
see
songs
see
songs
Muslims
see
Islamic countries
see
Islamic countries
Muspelheim
Musset, Lucien
Mutifu
(name on Smiss stone)
(name on Smiss stone)
Myhre, Bjørn
Nadodd (Iceland discoverer)
Nakur/Nador, North Africa
Nantes, France
Narsaq, Greenland
navigation
see also
astronomy
astronomy
Nerman, Birger
Nesjar, battle of
Nestor (monk)
Netherlands, the
see also
Walcheren
Walcheren
Neustria
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Nicholas, Pope
Nicolaisen, W. H. F.
nid
(poem type)
(poem type)
Nidaros, archbishopric of
ni
ð
stöng
(shame-poles)
ð
stöng
(shame-poles)
Nifelheim
Nikolaysen, Nikolay
Nipaitsoq, Greenland
Nithard (chaplain)
Njal Thorgeirsson
Njals Saga
Njord (god)
Noirmoutier monastery, France
Nonnebakken fort, Denmark
Nordal, Sigurdr
Nordoman (village)
Nordsetre
Norfolk
see also
Norwich
Norwich
Nørlund, Poul
Normandy
duchy of
Iberia raided from
language
law
Olav Haraldson in
see also
Dudo of St Quentin; Rouen
Dudo of St Quentin; Rouen
Norn language
Norns
Nørrejylland, Denmark
Norrsunda, Sweden
North America
see also
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Northern Isles
see also
Orkney; Shetland
Orkney; Shetland
Northumbria
in Brunanburh negotiations
Charlemagne’s envoys to
Cnut and
Edward the Elder and
‘Great Heathen Army’ and
invasion of Mercia
Viking raids on
see also
Lindisfarne; York
Lindisfarne; York
Nortman (village)
Norway
burials
Christianity : Håkon the Good ; Harald Bluetooth ; Olaf Tryggvason ; Olav Haraldsson
Cnut king of
Danish prince as king
Harald Bluetooth
Harald Finehair
Heathen religion
historical periods
house-trees
Klak-Harald
law
Normandy colonization
Ottar’s voyage
regional power centres
Rollo’s origins
rune-stones
runic inscriptions
sacrifice in
ship museum
Swedes migration to
thing
meetings
meetings
Viking Age causes
Viking Age farm
Vikings in history of
Vikings in Ireland
Yngling dynasty
see also
Avaldsnes; Bergen; Gokstad ship burial; Hordaland; Karmøy; Lade; Lofoten Islands; Oseberg ship burial; Ottar (Norwegian merchant); Selja; Trondheim; Tune ship burial; Vestfold; Vik
Avaldsnes; Bergen; Gokstad ship burial; Hordaland; Karmøy; Lade; Lofoten Islands; Oseberg ship burial; Ottar (Norwegian merchant); Selja; Trondheim; Tune ship burial; Vestfold; Vik
Norwich
Notker the Stammerer
Nottingham
see also
Five Boroughs
Five Boroughs
Novgorod
see also
Gorodische; Holmgård
Gorodische; Holmgård
Noyon, bishop of
Nydam excavations
Nyerup, Rasmus
Nygårds, Gotland
Oakeshott, Michael
Obodrites
Oda, bishop of Ramsbury, later archbishop of Canterbury
Odd Monk
Oddi Helgason
Odense, Denmark
Odin (god)
Christ and
death
on Gosforth cross
in
Håkonarmál
Håkonarmál
horse
Iceland’s conversion and
Jól
(midwinter feast)
(midwinter feast)
Loki and
magical powers
Olaf Tryggvason and
poetry and
at Ragnarök
sacrifice to
Sigrdrífa (Valkyrie) and
Svegdir’s search for
symbols of
Thiazzi’s Eyes
in Uppsala temple
Valhalla and
Odness/Odin Ness, Orkney
Odo, Count (later king of the Franks)
offences
see
crime and punishment
see
crime and punishment
ogham script
Ohthere
see
Ottar (Norwegian merchant)
see
Ottar (Norwegian merchant)
Oissel, France
Olaf (grandson of Sihtric/Sigtryggáech)
Olaf, king of Dublin
Olaf Sihtricsson
Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway
Christianity: in Faroes; in Greenland; in Iceland ; in Norway ; in Orkney
confirmation
death
in England
Hallfred the Troublesome Skald and
meeting with Odin
Olav Haraldson and
poetry and
Trondheim’s foundation
Ólafur Halldórsson
Öland
Olav Church, Avaldsnes: Norway
Olav Haraldson (St Olav), king of Norway
baptism
beatification
conversion campaign
death
Olaf Tryggvason and
raids on Iberian coast
sun-stone
Vikingarvísur
in ‘Völsa tháttr’
Old Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man
Oleg (son of Svyatoslov)
Oleg, ruler of the Rus
Olga, regent of the Rus
Olof Sköttkonung, king of the Swedes
Ongendus, king
Orc (follower of Cnut)
ordeals
Orderic Vitalis
Ordwulf’s church, Tavistock
Orkney
Christianity
earldom
Ganger Rolf and Rollaug in
Isle of Man and
language
monks in
in Ottar’s journey
Picts in
place-names
Ragnal (son of Halfdan, king of Norway) in
Orkneyinga Saga
Orlyg the Old
Ormesby, Lincolnshire
Orthodox Christianity
Orvar Odd
Osbert (Northumbrian throne claimant)
Oscytel (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Oseberg ship burial
cauldron
earlier opening
horses
Île de Groix ship compared to
runic inscriptions
Rus funeral compared to
ship
textiles
women buried in
Osfrid (Norwegian emissary)
Oslo
see also
Vik
Vik
Osmund, bishop of Sigtuna
Ostergötland, Rök stone
Østfold, Norway
Oswald, Saint
Ottar (Norwegian merchant)
Alfred, king of Wessex, and
naming of Denmark
naming of Norway
Ottar the Black
Otto(the Great), Holy Roman Emperor
Harald Bluetooth and
marriage
Thyrwi, queen, and
William Longsword and
Otto, Holy Roman Emperor
Ouen, Saint
Øvre Stabu, Norway
Owen, king of Strathclyde
Ox Road, Denmark
Oxford
Oxfordshire
Øymund (father of Ingvar the Far-Travelled)
Özti
paganism
see
Heathen religion
see
Heathen religion
Pallig, earl
Pamplona, Spain
pap-
place names
place names
Paris
Rollo and
Parrett (river)
Paviken, Gotland
Pechenegs
Pennington, Cumbria
Pepin, king of Aquitaine
Persia
Perun (god)
Philibert, Saint
Photios, patriarch
Picardy, France
Picts
picture-stones
clothing styles
Gosforth cross and
horse-riders
sacrificial scenes
ships’ rigging
warriors
Pilgårds stone
Pippin, king of the Franks
Pippin, king of Aquitaine
Pîtres, France
place-names
Plakun, Staraja Ladoga
Poetic Edda
see also
‘Sayings of the High One, The’; ‘Seeress’s Prophecy, The’
‘Sayings of the High One, The’; ‘Seeress’s Prophecy, The’
poetry
inspiration-seeking
Odin and
religion and
on rune-stones
in sagas of troubled love
status of
see also
‘First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbani’;
nid
(poem type);
Poetic Edda
;
Prose Edda
;
Rigsthula
; skaldic poetry;
Trymskvadet
‘First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbani’;
nid
(poem type);
Poetic Edda
;
Prose Edda
;
Rigsthula
; skaldic poetry;
Trymskvadet
Point of Ayre, Isle of Man
Poland
Poppa (Rollo’s mistress)
Poppo, bishop
Portishame, Devon
Portland
Portugal
see also
al-Andalus
al-Andalus
Prague
Procopius
Prose Edda
Prüm monastery
ar-radaniya
(trade route)
(trade route)
Ragenar, Count
Ragnal (son of Halfdan, king of Norway)
Ragnald (grandson of Ivar the Boneless)
Ragnald (Viking leader)
Ragnar (Viking leader)
Ragnar Lodbrok
Ragnarök
‘Ragnarsdrápa’
Rällinge, Södermanland
Ralph, king of Burgundy
Ramiro, king of Asturia
Ranvaik (named on box)
Rathmoss, Lancashire
Raud (Norwegian chieftain)
Raudulfs tháttr
Ravning Enge bridge
Ravnunge-Tove (named on æborgsstenen)
Reading
Rechru monastery, Ireland
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