Vikings and the Danelaw.

Intro -- The Thirteenth Viking Congress -- Foreword -- 1 Defining the Danelaw -- 2 In search of the vikings: the problems and the possibilities of interdisciplinary approaches -- 3 The conversion of the Danelaw -- 4 Repton and the 'great heathen army', 873-4 -- 5 Boundaries and cult centres: Viking burial in Derbyshire -- 6 Pagan Scandinavian burial in the central and southern Danelaw -- 7 Expansion and control: aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian minting south of the Humber -- 8 Anglo-Scandinavian urban development in the East Midlands -- 9 Lincoln in the Viking Age -- 10 New light on the Viking presence in Lincolnshire: the artefactual evidence -- 11 The strange beast that is the English Urnes style -- 12 Five towns funerals: decoding diversity in Danelaw stone sculpture -- 13 The Southwell lintel, its style and significance -- 14 Finding the Vikings: the search for Anglo-Scandinavian rural settlementin the northern Danelaw -- 15 In the steps of the Vikings -- 16 Scandinavian elements in English place-names: some semantic problems -- 17 How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England? Again -- 18 Skaldic verse in Scandinavian England -- 19 Eddic poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian northern England -- 20 Representations of the Danelaw in Middle English literature -- 21 Hereward, the Danelaw and the Victorians.

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