The age of the Vikings, 2014/List of Illustrations

The age of the Vikings — List of Illustrations автор Anders Winroth

Источник: Anders Winroth - The age of the Vikings. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — С. 289-291

[289]ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURES

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Pottery pitcher manufactured in the Frankish Empire but found in a grave in Birka, Sweden

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Ruins of the Lindisfarne monastery, by Thomas Girtin

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Ax and spear blades

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Spearhead with a sharpened point like those used in the battle of Maldon

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An Ulfberht sword

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A Gotlandic picture stone from the Viking Age depicting the execution of Ragnar Hairy-Breeches in a snake pit

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Runestone erected in Styrstad, Sweden, to memorialize Rörik’s two dead sons, Frode and Asbjörn

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Episcopal ring and crozier made of finely carved walrus ivory

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Reconstruction of a Norse settlement from about 1000 at Anse-aux-Meadows, close to the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada

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Viking ship excavated from a grave mound in Gokstad, Norway

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A miniature from the fourteenth-century manuscript Skarðsbók depicting two shipbuilders constructing a ship

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Woodblock illustration depicting a boat being portaged overland

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A silver hoard found in Ocksarve, Gotland, Sweden

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An iron lock from a set of slave fetters found in the harbor of Hedeby

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Conical silver mount for the point of a silk cap, found in a grave in Birka, Sweden

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A piece of silk, woven in the Middle East and embroidered with silver, found in a grave in Valsgärde, Sweden

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A penny struck for the Swedish king Olof in the early eleventh century, thoughtlessly imitating coins from England

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Computer reconstruction of the large Viking Age hall at Lejre, Denmark, based on the archeology of the site

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A set of Roman wine utensils, found in Öremölla, Scania, Sweden

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A well-preserved female skeleton from the Viking Age found in Såsta, Sweden, persuasively identified as Estrid Sigfastsdotter

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Keys from several medieval women’s graves in Sweden

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A soapstone mold from Trendgården in Jutland, Denmark, which could be used to cast either a Christian cross or a model of Thor’s hammer

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The Karlevi runestone, containing a complete stanza in the artful Viking Age meter known as dróttkvætt

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A lively inscription on a rock face in Ramsundsberget, Sweden, depicting scenes from the myth of the hero Sigurd

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MAPS

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Europe in the Viking Age (front of book)

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Northern Europe in the Viking Age (back of book)

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Greenland and northeastern America in the Viking Age

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PLATES (following page 180)

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Multicolored glass vessel from a grave in Birka, Sweden

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Arabic dirhams and gaming pieces made of glass, including a “king,” from a grave in Birka, Sweden

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The ruins of Erik the Red’s farm Brattahlid, in Greenland

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Ship setting from Djupvik, Sweden

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Picture stone from Stora Hammars, Lärbro, Sweden

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Reconstruction of one of the grandest Viking longships ever found by archeologists

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Sword with silver inlay from a grave in Sollerön, Sweden

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String of carnelian, rock crystal, and blue glass beads found in a grave at Hedeby

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Eleventh-century runestone erected by Estrid Sigfastsdotter in memory of her husband Östen, close to their farm at Såsta, Sweden

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Exquisitely carved animal head from the ninth-century Oseberg burial in Norway

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Eleventh-century runestone from Altuna, Sweden, depicting the god Thor having caught the Midgard Serpent on his fishing line

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Statuette depicting the fertility god Frey

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A page from Flateyjarbók, one of the greatest surviving medieval manuscripts collecting the stories of ancient Scandinavia

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Seven elegant arm rings and a round brooch from two gold treasure troves found close to each other in Erikstorp, Sweden