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R. T. Farrell, ed.
The Vikings.
Published Chichester: Phillimore, 1982.
ISBN 0850334365;
ISBN-13: 9780850334364.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Staples Printers, Rochester.
Size: 190x251x25mm.
Page count: [xiv],306pp inc. 47 text figures, plus 48 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a little rumpled, some light foxing to the page edges; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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Weight without packaging: 993g.

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Prints a selection of papers from the Cornell Viking Lecture Series, which followed the Viking exhibition that toured the UK and USA in 1980 and 1981.

Contents:
Sawyer, Causes of the Viking age;
Cramp, The Viking image;
Webster, Stylistic aspects of the Franks Casket;
Graham-Campbell, Silver hoards — an introduction;
Blindheim, Emergence of urban communities in Viking age Scandinavia;
Morris, Vikings in the British Isles — settlement & economy;
Nicolaisen, Vikings in Scotland — evidence of place-names;
Blindheim, Viking ship vanes — use & technique;
Wormald, Viking studies — whence & whither?;
Harris, Elegy in Old England & Old Norse — a problem in literary history;
Hill, Confessions of Beowulf & structure of Volsunga Saga;
Farrell, Beowulf & the northern heroic age;
Jones, Vikings & North America;
Pitschmann, Norsemen in America — select bibliography 1950-80;
Barribeau, William Morris & saga translation;
Eldjarn, The Viking myth.

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