Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
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.
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