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Author Boulton, David

Title Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia The Place-Name Evidence
Published Havertown : Windgather Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (242 p.)
Contents 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Names, Geographical -- England -- East Anglia
Vikings -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Civilization -- Scandinavian influences
Names, Geographical
Vikings -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT East Anglia (England) -- History
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Scandinavian influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001286
Subject England -- East Anglia
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781914427268
1914427262