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Wulfstan's voyage : the Baltic Sea region in the early Viking age as seen from shipboard
Title
Wulfstan's voyage : the Baltic Sea region in the early Viking age as seen from shipboard / edited by Anton Englert and Athena Trakadas.
ISBN
9788785180568 (hbk.)
8785180564 (hbk.)
Published
Roskilde : Viking Ship Museum ; Oxford : Oxbow [distributor], 2009.
Physical Description
374 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
This account of the voyage across the east-west axis of the Baltic Sea explores the evidence for the sites described - and also those purposefully omitted - by Wulfstan during the 9th century.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2012
Series
Maritime culture of the North ; 2
Contents
Wulfstan's voyage and his description of Estland : the text and the language of the text / Janet Bately
Who was Wulfstan? / Judith Jesch
Wulfstan's account in the context of early medieval travel literature / Rudolf Simek
On the reliability of Wulfstan's report / Przemysław Urbańczyk
Ests, Slavs and Saxons : ethnic groups and political structures / Christian Lübke, with a note by Przemysław Urbańczyk
Danes and Swedes in written and archaeological sources at the end of the 9th century / Władysław Duczko
Routes and long-distance traffic : the nodal points of Wulfstan's voyage / Søren M. Sindbæk
Hedeby in Wulfstan's days : a Danish emporium of the Viking Age between East and West / Volker Hilberg
Wulfstan and the coast of southern Scandinavia : sailing routes from Langeland to Möre / Johan Callmer
Viking-Age sailing routes of the western Baltic Sea : a matter of safety / Jens Ulriksen
Harbours and trading centres on Bornholm, Öland and Gotland in the late 9th century / Anne Nørgård Jørgensen
Ports and emporia of the southern coast : from Hedeby to Usedom and Wolin / Hauke Jöns
The settlement of Truso / Marek F. Jagodziński
Handelsplätze zwischen Danziger und Rigaer Bucht zur Zeit Wulfstans / Vladas Žulkus & Mindaugas Bertašius
Transport zones in Wulfstan's days / Christer Westerdahl
An 8th-century written source on ships and navigation : the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister / Ian Wood & George Indruszewski
Boats and ships of the Baltic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries : the archaeological and iconographic evidence / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
Sailing in Wulfstan's wake : the 2004 trial voyage Hedeby-Gdańsk with the Skuldelev I reconstruction, Ottar / Anton Englert & Waldemar Ossowski
Seafaring then and now / Seán McGrail
The art of sailing like Wulfstan / George Indruszewski & Jon Godal, with contributions by Max Vinner
Principles of trade and exchange : trade goods and merchants / Heiko Steuer
The 9th-century Christian mission to the North / Jörn Staecker
The Christian mission in the northwestern Slavic territories / Felix Biermann
Piracy and naval organisation in the Baltic Sea in the 9th century : some security considerations concerning Wulfstan's voyage / Jan Bill
Summary / Michael Müller-Wille.
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