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Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia The Place-Name Evidence.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boulton, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Windgather Press, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
  • Title Page
  • Copyrights
  • Contents
  • Corpus of place-names available online
  • List of figures and tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Conventions and terminology
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • The evolving scholarship of Scandinavian place-names and Viking settlement
  • Aims and methodologies
  • Structure of the book
  • 2 The historical and archaeological context
  • Outline historical narrative from documentary sources
  • The archaeological evidence
  • Conclusion
  • 3 The linguistic and geographical context
  • The linguistic context
  • The geographical context
  • Developments in rural society
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Place-names in -bý
  • The bý-names of Flegg
  • Remaining bý-names in East Anglia outside Flegg
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Place-names in -thorp
  • Simplex thorps
  • Geographical and archaeological context
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Place-names containing other Scandinavian-influenced generics
  • Place-names in -toft
  • Place-names containing ON topographical generics
  • ON arboreal generics
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Hybrid place-names
  • Use of the tūn generic
  • Place-names containing the OE tūn generic compounded with ON personal names (the 'Grimston-hybrids')
  • Place-names containing ON specifics compounded with OE generics other than tūn
  • Conclusion
  • 8 A migrationary perspective
  • Correlations between place-name types and the chronology of settlement-formation
  • Local connections between Scandinavian-influenced place-names
  • A broader pattern of Viking settlement
  • A possible geographical and historical context for Viking settlement
  • A possible migrationary model of Viking settlement
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index