This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names
in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of
differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East
Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries. The
place-names of East Anglia have until now received little attention
in the academic study of Viking settlement. Similarly, the question
of a possible migration of settlers from Scandinavia during the
Viking period was for many years dismissed by historians and
archaeologists – until the recent discovery by metal-detectorists
of abundant Scandinavian metalwork and jewellery in many parts of
East Anglia. David Boulton has synthesised these two previously
neglected elements to offer new insights into the processes of
Viking settlement. This book provides the first comprehensive
analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in East Anglia. It
examines their different categories linguistically and explores the
landscape and archaeological contexts of the settlements associated
with them, with the aid of GIS-generated maps. Dr Boulton shows how
the process of Viking settlement was influenced by changes in rural
society and agriculture which were then already occurring in East
Anglia, such as the late Anglo-Saxon expansion of arable farming
and the associated recolonisation of the inland clay plateau. These
developments resulted in patterns of place-name formation which
differ significantly from some of the previously accepted, orthodox
interpretations of how Scandinavian-influenced place-names
(especially those containing the bý and thorp elements, and the
‘Grimston-hybrids’) came into being in the Danelaw. In view of
these discrepancies, David Boulton proposes an innovative,
hypothetical model for the formation of the Scandinavian-influenced
place-names in East Anglia, which explores differing patterns and
phases of Viking settlement in the region and the possible pathways
of migration that preceded them.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxbow Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
David Boulton
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 183mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-914427-25-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-914427-25-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781914427251 |
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