Danes in Wessex : the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100 /
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Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Danes in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey
- West Saxons and Danes : negotiating identities in the early Middle Ages / Simon Roffey and Ryan Lavelle
- The place of slaughter : exploring the West Saxon battlescape / Thomas J. T. Williams
- A review of Viking attacks in western England to the early tenth century : their motives and responses / Derek Gore
- Landscapes of violence in early Medieval Wessex : towards a reassessment of Anglo-Saxon strategic landscapes / John Baker and Stuart Brookes
- Scandinavian-style metalwork from southern England : new light on the "first Viking age" in Wessex / Jane Kershaw
- Death on the Dorset Ridgeway : the discovery and excavation of an early Medieval mass burial / Angela Boyle
- Law, death and peacemaking in the "second Viking age" : an ealdorman, his king, and some "Danes" in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle
- Thorkell the Tall and the bubble reputation : the vicissitudes of fame / Ann Williams
- A place in the country : Orc of Abbotsbury and Tole of Tolpuddle, Dorset / Ann Williams
- Danish landowners in Wessex in 1066 / C.P. Lewis
- Danish royal burials in Winchester : Cnut and his family / Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle
- Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Céspedes González.