Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps xi
Introduction 1
1 The Oseberg Ship 9
2 The culture of northern Heathendom 20
3 The causes of the Viking Age 41
4 'The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens' 58
5 The Vikings in the Carolingian empire 83
6 Across the Baltic 108
7 The Danelaw I: Occupation 132
8 The settlement of Iceland 154
9 Rollo and the Norman colony 174
10 The master-builder: Harald Bluetooth and the Jelling Stone 196
11 The Danelaw II: Assimilation 216
12 When Allah met Odin 245
13 A piece of horse's liver: The pragmatic Christianity of Håkon The Good 263
14 Greenland and North America 280
15 Ragnarök in Iceland 298
16 St Brice, St Alphege and the Wolf: The fall of Anglo-Saxon England 325
17 The Viking saint 348
18 Heathendom's last bastion 364
Notes 383
Index 421