THE VIKINGS

BY
ALLEN MAWER, M.A.
Professor of English Language and
Literature in Armstrong College,
University of Durham: late Fellow
of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913

Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521

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	Introduction	[1]
CHAP.
I.	Causes of the Viking movement	[4]
II.	The Viking movement down to the middle of the
	9th century	[12]
III.	The Vikings in England to the death of Harthacnut	[22]
IV.	The Vikings in the Frankish Empire to the
	founding of Normandy (911)	[43]
V.	The Vikings in Ireland to the battle of Clontarf (1014)	[54]
VI.	The Vikings in the Orkneys, Scotland, the Western
	Islands and Man	[65]
VII.	The Vikings in Baltic lands and Russia	[69]
VIII.	Viking civilisation	[82]
IX.	Scandinavian influence in the Orkneys, Shetlands,
	the Western Islands and Man	[112]
X.	Scandinavian influence in Ireland	[116]
XI.	Scandinavian influence in England	[123]
XII.	Scandinavian influence in the Empire and Iceland	[138]
	Bibliography	[146]
	Index	[148]

THE VIKINGS

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