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Viking-Age Communities: Pap-Names and Papar in the Hebridean Islands
Kristján Ahronson
Sculpted stones and carvings in caves and rock faces testify to an unexplored facet of early Christianity across a zone stretching from the Scottish coasts to Iceland. Though recent work paves the way for a more nuanced interpretation of this material, key uncertainties pose significant hurdles for scholarship. This book highlights the ambiguities surrounding Viking-Age Scandinavian and early Christian communities (called papar by later Norse literature), and focuses upon the Pap-place-names of the north Atlantic islands in order to shed new light on our understanding of the relationships between the peoples of this zone in the early medieval period.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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List of Illustrations, Tables and Abbreviations
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE Pap-names and the Norse
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CHAPTER TWO Looking to the Hebrides
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CHAPTER THREE Pab(b)ay island names
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CHAPTER FOUR Viking-Age communities?
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CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER PROBLEMS
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REFERENCES
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407301624 (paperback)
- 9781407321097 (ebook)
BAR Number: B450