Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Downham, Clare. Viking kings of Britain and Ireland: the dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014. Edinburgh, 2007.  338 pages

Hadley, Dawn, The Vikings in England: settlement, society and culture. Manchester, 2006. 320 pages

Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba: Scotland 789-1070. Edinburgh, 2007.  359 pages

Additional book for the MA students:

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. Early medieval Ireland, 400-1200. London, 1995, 63-271. 209 pages.

Reading geared to the case study of Ireland:

*Etchingham, C., ‘North Wales, Ireland and the Isles: the Insular Viking zone’, Peritia 15 (2001), 145-87.

* Etchingham, C., ‘Names for the Vikings in Irish Annals’, in Sigurðsson, Bolton (eds.), Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 (Boston, 2014), 23-38.

* Etchingham, C., ‘The battle of Cenn Fuait, 917: location and military significance’, Peritia 21 (2010), 208-232.

*Etchingham, C., ‘The Location of Historical Laithlinn/ Lochl (i)nn: Scotland or Scandinavia?’,  in M. Ó Flaithearta (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica (Uppsala, 2007), 11-31.

* Etchingham, C., ‘Uita Findani: a Hiberno-German Window on the Early Viking Age’, in Simek, Ivanova (eds.), Between the Islands – and the continent (Vienna, 2013), 55-78.

*Etchingham, C., Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals (Maynooth, 1996) (79 pages).

* Hudson, B., ‘Brjáns Saga’, in Medium Ævum Vol. LXXI (2002), 241-268.

* Ó Corráin, D., ‘Viking Ireland – Afterthoughts’, in Clarke, Mhaonaigh, Ó Floinn (eds.), Ireland and Scandinavia in the early Viking Age (dublin, 1998), 421-452.

Documents:

• 1A & 1B: What did Viking Raiders want? The Life of Findan of Rheinau.
• 2A: Viking Kings in Ireland, mid-9^th Century: Norway versus Denmark? Irish Annals (selections).
• 2B: Viking Kings in Ireland, mid-9^th Century: Norway versus Denmark? The ‘Legend of Tuirgéis’ and the ‘Saga of Cerball’ (Extracts).
• 3A: Decline, Fall and re-establishment of Viking Dublin 873-917: Irish Annals (selections),  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (extract).
• 3B: Dublin Vikings in Exile after 902- the story of  Ingimundr: Welsh annals and Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.
• 4A: Viking Dublin wins and loses York: Irish Annals and Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (selections)
• 4B: Viking Dublin wins and loses York: Old English Poem The Battle of Brunanburh and Middle Welsh Poem The Great Prophecy of Britain.
• 5: Dublin after the Loss of York- Scottish Islemen, Danes and the Battle of Clontarf: Irish annals (selections), Welsh annals, English cronicles.
• 6:  Dublin after the Loss of York- the Battle of Clontarf account in Njáls Saga.