| Contents |
Introduction: Danes in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey -- West Saxons and Danes: negotiating identities in the early Middle Ages / Simon Roffey and Ryan Lavelle -- The place of slaughter: exploring the West Saxon battlescape / Thomas J. T. Williams -- A review of Viking attacks in western England to the early tenth century: their motives and responses / Derek Gore -- Landscapes of violence in early Medieval Wessex: towards a reassessment of Anglo-Saxon strategic landscapes / John Baker and Stuart Brookes -- Scandinavian-style metalwork from southern England: new light on the "first Viking age" in Wessex / Jane Kershaw -- Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: the discovery and excavation of an early Medieval mass burial / Angela Boyle -- Law, death and peacemaking in the "second Viking age": an ealdorman, his king, and some "Danes" in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle -- Thorkell the Tall and the bubble reputation: the vicissitudes of fame / Ann Williams -- A place in the country: Orc of Abbotsbury and Tole of Tolpuddle, Dorset / Ann Williams -- Danish landowners in Wessex in 1066 / C.P. Lewis -- Danish royal burials in Winchester: Cnut and his family / Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle -- Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Céspedes González. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Danes in Wessex Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782979319 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015040995 |
| ISBN | 9781782979326 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781782979340 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781782979333 ( mobi) |
