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the Baltic Sea region in the early Viking age as seen from shipboard
374 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
1. Wulfstan's account -- Wulfstan's voyage and his description of Estland: the text and the language of the text -- Who was Wulfstan? -- Wulfstan's account in the context of early medieval travel literature -- On the reliability of Wulfstan's report 2. The western and central Baltic Sea region in the 9th and 10th centuries -- Ests, Slavs ans Saxons: ethnic groups and political structures -- Danes and Swedes in written and archaeological sources at the end of the 9th century -- Routes and long-distance traffic: the nodal points of Wulfstan's voyage -- Hedeby in Wulfstan's days: a Danish emporium of the Viking age -- Wulfstan and the coast of southern Scandinavia: sailing routes from Langeland to More -- Viking-age sailing routes of the western Baltic Sea: a metter of safety -- Harbours and trading centres on Bornholm, Oland and Gotland -- Ports and emporia of the southern coast: from Hedeby to Usedom and Wolin -- The settlement of Truso -- 3. Navigating the Baltic Sea -- Transport zones in Wulfstan's days -- An 8th-century written source on ships and navigation: thr Cosmography of Aethicus Ister -- Boats and ships of the Baltic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries: the archaeological and iconographic evidence -- Sailing in Wulfstan's wake: the 1004 trial voyage Hedeby-Gdansk -- Seafaring then and now -- The art of sailing like Wulfstan -- 4. Exchange and control -- principles of trade and exchange: trade goods and merchants -- The 9th-century Christian mission to the north -- The Christian mission in the northwestern Slavic territories -- Piracy and naval organisation in the Baltic Sea in the 9th century: some security considerations concerning Wulfstan's voyage.
edited by Anton Englert & Athena Trakadas.
Includes bibliographical references and index.