eLibrary: Vikings in the East

In the 9th-10th centuries Norse traders navigated the Volga and Dnieper Rivers, linking Scandinavia with the Byzantine Empire and Islamic world, fostering trade and cultural exchange.

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Articles

Ashby, S.P., 2015. What really caused the Viking Age? The social content of raiding and exploration. Archaeological Dialogues, 22(1), pp.89-106.

Barrett, J.H., 2008. What caused the Viking age?. antiquity, 82(317), pp.671-685.

Barrett, J.H., Khamaiko, N., Ferrari, G., Cuevas, A., Kneale, C., Hufthammer, A.K., Pálsdóttir, A.H. and Star, B., 2022. Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1972), p.20212773.

Baug, I., Skre, D., Heldal, T. and Jansen, Ø.J., 2019. The beginning of the Viking Age in the West. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 14, pp.43-80.

Beckwith, C.J. ‘The Vikings and Cathay’, in Beckwith, C.J. Empires of the Silk Road. A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2009, 163-182.

Bibikov, D.V., 2020. Structural Features Of The Chamber Graves Of The Viking Age In The Middle Dnieper Region. Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine, 35(2), pp.294-299.

Christys, A., 2016. The Vikings in the South through Arab eyes. In Visions of Community in the post-Roman World (pp. 447-457). Routledge.

Eniosova, N. and Pushkina, T., Some technological aspects of fine metalworking in Gnezdovo: an analysis of the hoards from the Upper Dnieper region. Art and Symbolism, p.65.

Eriksen, Å., 2021. Patterned Silk Weaving in Ancient Times: A Study of Some Silks from Central-Asia Found in the Viking Area. FormAkademisk, 14(2).

Graham-Campbell, J.A., 1978, November. The Viking-age silver and gold hoards of Scandinavian character from Scotland. In Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Vol. 107, pp. 114-135).

Gruszczynski, J., 2016, January. Viking-Age silver hoards in the Baltic zone: deposition and (non) retrieval. In Medieval Archaeology Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford (Vol. 25).

Gruszczynski, J., 2016. Comparative study of archaeological contexts of silver hoards c. 800-1050 in Northern and Central Europe (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford).

Gruszczynski, J., 2018. Silver, Hoards and Containers-The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800-1050.

Gullbekk, S.H., 2016. Vestfold: a monetary perspective on the Viking Age. In Early Medieval Monetary History (pp. 365-382). Routledge.

Hampton, V.D., 2011. Viking age arms and armor originating in the Frankish Kingdom. The Hilltop Review, 4(2), p.8.

Hårdh, B., 2016. The Permī/Glazov rings: Contacts and Economy in the Viking Age between Russia and the Baltic Region. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University.

Hedenstierna-Jonson, C., 2023. Warriors Wearing Silk. In Vikings in the Mediterranean, November 27-30, 2019, Athens, Greece (pp. 223-240). Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Hedenstierna-Jonson, C., 2020. With Asia as neighbour: Archaeological evidence of contacts between Scandinavia and Central Asia in the Viking Age and the Tang dynasty. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern antiquities, 81, pp.43-64.

Hedenstierna-Jonson, C., 2023. Warriors Wearing Silk. In Vikings in the Mediterranean, November 27-30, 2019, Athens, Greece (pp. 223-240). Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Herman, I., 2018. Vikings and the Fur Trade: Exchange and Autonomy beyond Western Europe. Wittenberg History Journal, p.3.

Ingvardson, G., 2012. Nørremølle–the largest Viking Age silver hoard of Bornholm (Denmark). EDITED BY THE CEN.

Jankowiak, M., 2016. Byzantine coins in Viking-Age northern lands. Byzantium and the Viking World, pp.117-39.

Katona, C., 2018. Co-operation between the Viking Rus’ and the Turkic Nomads of the Steppe in the Ninth-Eleventh Centuries (Doctoral dissertation, Master’s Thesis, Central European University).

Keller, C., 2010. Furs, fish, and ivory: Medieval Norsemen at the Arctic fringe. Journal of the North Atlantic, 3(1), pp.1-23.

Kershaw, J., 2014. Viking-Age silver in North-West England: hoards and single finds. In Search of Vikings. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North West England, pp.149-64.

Kershaw, J., Merkel, S.W., Oravisjärvi, J., Kooijman, E. and Kielman-Schmitt, M., 2021. The scale of dirham imports to the Baltic in the ninth century: New evidence from archaeometric analyses of early Viking-age silver. Fornvännen, 116(3).

Kershaw, J. and Merkel, S.W., 2022. Silver recycling in the Viking Age: Theoretical and analytical approaches. Archaeometry, 64, pp.116-133.

Kilger, C., 2008. Wholeness and holiness: counting, weighing and valuing silver in the early Viking period.

Kilger, C., 2011. Hack-silver, weights and coinage: the Anglo-Scandinavian bullion coinages and their use in late Viking-Age society. In proceedings University Aaarhus december 2008 (pp. 259-280). Aarhus University Press

Kilger, C., 2015. Hoards and sinous snakes: Significance and meaning of ring ornaments in Early Viking Age hoards from Gotland.

Kilger, C., 2020. Long distance trade, runes and silver: a Gotlandic perspective.

Kurzenkova, А.О., 2017. The influence of the viking trade on the development of Kiev: data of the scandinavian runic inscriptions. Збірники наукових праць професорсько-викладацького складу ДонНУ імені Василя Стуса.

Кузюрин, В.С. and Ярошенко, А.А., The Viking Activities In The East And Their Role In The Foundation Of The Kievan Rus. ББК 81.2 я431, p.154.

Larsson, G., 2013. Contacts between Scandinavia and the Caucasus in Viking Age.

Larsson, M.G., 2011. Early Contacts between Scandinavia and the Orient. The Silk Road Journal, 9, pp.122-142.

Larsson, A., 2020. Asian Silk in Scandinavian Viking Age Graves. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 81, pp.107-148.

Makarov, N., Krasnikova, A., Zaytseva, I. and Dobrovolskaja, M., 2021. New Evidence on the Late Viking-Age Burial Rituals in the Volga-Oka Region: Excavations at Shekshovo/RU. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 51(2), pp.287-308.

Pedersen, U., 2016. Into the Melting Pot: non-ferrous metalworkers in Viking-period Kaupang (Vol. 4). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Peters, C.O., 2002. The Silk Road Textiles at Birka: An Examination of the Tabletwoven Bands. The Silk Road, 1, pp.1-2002.

Romgard, J., 2016. Did the Vikings trade with China?: on a controversial passage in Ibn Khordāhbeh’s Book of itineraries and kingdoms. Fornvännen, 111(4), pp.229-242.

Roslund, M., 2023. Retracking the Vikings in the East: A review of Scandinavian-Islamic interfaces. Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 14, pp.147-167.

Sheehan, J., 2016. The form and structure of Viking-Age silver hoards: the evidence from Ireland. In Silver economy in the Viking Age (pp. 149-162). Routledge.

Skre, D., 2017. Monetary practices in early medieval western Scandinavia (5th–10th centuries AD). Medieval Archaeology, 61(2), pp.277-299.

Vardanyan, A., Islamic Coin Hoards and the Trade Routes: How Dirham Reached the North.

Vedeler, M. ‘Silk Trade to Scandinavia in the Viking Age’ in Angela Ling Huang and Carsten Jahnke (eds) Textiles and the Medieval Economy Production, Trade and Consumption of Textiles 8th–16th Centuries, 78-85

Watts, S., 2015. From raiders to traders: The Viking-Arab trade exchange. The Saber and Scroll Journal, 4(2).