Vikings activities were an important element of the early medieval European cultural landscape. One of directions of the Scandinavian penetration was to the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, including the territory of today’s Poland. The occurrence of Scandinavian culture elements in the Vistula, Oder and Warta River basins is one of the more controversial research issues in Polish medieval studies. Initially the discussion was limited to historians. Their attention was focused primarily on the study of a mysterious document, the 'Dagome iudex', and sometimes on the interpretation of written sources which derived mainly from the Old Norse tradition. Archaeological discoveries encouraged the representatives of this discipline to become increasingly more active in the aforementioned discussion.
Author(s): Sławomir Moździoch, Błażej Stanisławski, Przemysław Wiszewski (eds.)
Series: Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, 2
Publisher: Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 478
City: Wrocław
Preface
Władysław Duczko / With Vikings or without? Scandinavians in early Medieval Poland. Approaching an old problem
Piotr Boroń / Norsemen and the Polish territories in the early Middle Ages – theories, ideas and speculations
Jakub Morawiec / Slavs and their lands in Old Norse literature
Leszek P. Słupecki / Polish rivers and waters in Old Norse mythology
Przemysław Urbańczyk / The eastern neighbours of the Piasts in the 10th century
Mateusz Bogucki / Before the Vikings. Foreigners in the lower Vistula region during the Migration Period and the origins of Truso
Marek F. Jagodziński / Roots of Truso
Wojciech Chudziak / Remarks on particular material traces of Scandinavian culture in Pomerania
Felix Biermann / A Slavic or a Viking Town? The excavations at Wolin? 1934/1941 and their contemporary interpretation
Błażej Stanisławski / Norse culture in Wolin-Jómsborg
Anna Bogumiła Kowalska / Original or imitation? Comments on the presence of the Scandinavians at the estuary of the Oder River in the Early Middle Ages
Kinga Zamelska-Monczak / Traces of Viking culture in Santok?
Krzysztof Jaworski, Ewa Lisowska, Aleksandra Pankiewicz, Błażej Stanisławski / Artefacts of Scandinavian origin from the Cathedral Island (Ostrów Tumski) in Wrocław
Mariusz Błoński / Antler sickle handle from Nasielsk. An example of the Pomeranian school of Scandinavian-Insular ornament from Mazovia
Zdzisława Ratajczyk / The cemetery in Ciepłe - current research results
Andrzej Buko, Michała Kara, Władysław Duczko, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka / Bodzia: a unique Viking age cemetery with chamber-like graves from central Poland
Leszek Gardeła / Dead or alive? – 'Chamber graves' and their inhabitants in the Old Norse literature and Viking-age archaeology
Andrzej Janowski / Are the chamber graves from Pień really Scandinavian?
Jerzy Sikora / Ethnos or ethos? Some remarks on interpretation of early medieval elite burials in northern Poland
George Indruszewski / Technological aspects of cultural identity: the case of early medieval shipbuilding and seafaring in the Baltic
Marcin Szydłowski / Possibility of identification of Scandinavian presence on the Polish territory in the light of petroarchaeological research
Paweł Kucypera, Piotr Pudło / The 'Viking Sword' – true or false? On the importance of a certain terminological problem
