Dictionary of Northern Mythology
From 1500 BC to 1000 AD, a culture as significant as the classical civilisation of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea. But whereas classical mythology has been fully absorbed into the cultural history of the west, the mythology of northern Europe - Scandinavians, Goths, Angles and Saxons - is often enigmatic. In compiling this dictionary, Rudolf Simek has made the fullest use of Christian accounts, Eddic lays, the Elder Edda, runic inscriptions, Roman authors (especially Tacitus), votive stones, place names and archaeological discoveries to present the beliefs of the heathen Germanic tribes in their entirety.
Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age - The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse
The Vikings were the master mariners and ship-builders of the middle ages, as in borne out by spectacular archaeological finds of whole or partial ships, but the nautical vocabulary of the Viking Age has been surprisingly neglected. This book is the first systematic and comparative study of the copious contemporary evidence of runic inscriptions and skaldic verse documenting the activities of men and their uses of ships in the late Viking Age, c. 950-1100; the whole is set in the context of. contemporary Scandinavian political and social history.
Terje Spurkland
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Paperback - 2005 edition