Into the Ocean Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North【電子書籍】[ Kristjan Ahronson ]

＜p＞That Gaelic monasticism flourished in the early medieval period is well established. The “Irish School” penetrated large areas of Europe and contemporary authors describe North Atlantic travels and settlements. Across Scotland and beyond, Celtic-speaking communities spread into the wild and windswept north, marking hundreds of Atlantic settlements with carved and rock-cut sculpture. They were followed in the Viking Age by Scandinavians who dominated the Atlantic waters and settled the Atlantic rim.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With ＜em＞Into the Ocean＜/em＞, Kristj?n Ahronson makes two dramatic claims: that there were people in Iceland almost a century before Viking settlers first arrived c. AD 870, and that there was a tangible relationship between the early Christian “Irish” communities of the Atlantic zone and the Scandinavians who followed them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ahronson uses archaeological, paleoecological, and literary evidence to support his claims, analysing evidence ranging from ＜em＞pap＜/em＞ place names in ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る