Into the Ocean - Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North

An interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.

List of contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations, Tables and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence Irish

Chapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between Disciplines

Chapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland’s Hebridean Islands

Chapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland

Chapter Five: Dating the Cave

Chapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental Change

Chapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place?

To Conclude

References

About the author

By Kristján Ahronson

Summary

An interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.

Product details

• Authors: Kristjan Ahronson, Kristján Ahronson
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2015
• EAN: 9781442646179
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4617-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis); Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis); Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Se
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history