In Austrvegr : the role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age communication across the Baltic Sea
Marika Mägi
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | xix, 491 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Viking age cultural contacts across the Baltic Sea : behind the interpretations -- Clan-based collectivists or hierarchical individualists? Late prehistoric societies in the Ea; stern Baltic -- Making trade : cultural landscapes and communication routes -- The historical reality : places, place names, and ethnonyms in written sources -- Networks take shape : communication through the Eastern Baltic 600-850 -- West goes east : Viking age long-distance communication and the Eastern Baltic 850-ca. 1000 -- Between consolidating states. The Eastern Baltic areas in the 11th and 12th centuries -- Summing up and conclusions.. - "Marika Mägi's book considers the cultural, mercantile and political interaction of the Viking Age (9th-11th century), focusing on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea. The majority of research on Viking activity in the East has so far concentrated on the modern-day lands of Russia, while the archaeology and Viking Age history of today's small nation states along the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea is little known to a global audience. This study looks at the area from a trans-regional perspective, combining archaeological evidence with written sources, and offering reflections on the many different factors of climate, topography, logistics, technology, politics and trade that shaped travel in this period. The work offers a nuanced vision of Eastern Viking expansion, in which the Eastern Baltic frequently acted as buffer zone between eastern and western powers"--
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| ISBN | 9789004216655
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