Vikings in Poland

This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland and casts a new light on a previously overlooked part of the Viking world.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Research history: Discovering the Vikings in Poland
Chapter 2: The Western Slavic world
Chapter 3: Cultural interactions: Slavs and Scandinavians in the Southern Baltic
Chapter 4: The Viking diaspora in Pomerania and the Piast state: Identity, agency, and art
Chapter 5: Material markers of Norse identity in Viking Age Poland
Chapter 6: Norse beliefs in Viking Age Poland
Chapter 7: ‘Viking’ burials in Poland
Chapter 8: Vikings in Poland, Slavs in Scandinavia … and Slavic Vikings: Synthesis, conclusions, and new trajectories

About the author

Leszek Gardeła is an expert on Scandinavian–Slavic interactions in the Viking Age and leader of a Gerda Henkel Foundation project entitled Slavs in the North: Foreign Elites in Viking Age Scandinavia. With a Habilitation from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich (2023) and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Aberdeen (2012), his research encompasses early medieval funerary practices, cult and magic, gender studies, and twentieth-century art.

Summary

This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland and casts a new light on a previously overlooked part of the Viking world.

Product details

• Authors: Garde a, Leszek Gardela, Leszek Gardeła
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781138349391
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34939-1
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Medieval History, Archaeology by period / region, History and Archaeology, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval European archaeology, Viking Studies;Iron Age;Norse;Scandinavia