Vikings in the South

Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean

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Ann Christys

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Studies in Early Medieval History

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In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula. These Vikings have been only a footnote to the history of the Viking Age. Many stories about their activities survive only in elaborate versions written centuries after the event, and in Arabic. This book reconsiders the Arabic material as part of a dossier that also includes Latin chronicles and charters as well as archaeological and place-name evidence. Arabic authors and their Latin contemporaries remembered Vikings in Iberia in surprisingly similar ways. How they did so sheds light on contemporary responses to Vikings throughout the medieval world.

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Ann Christys is an independent scholar. She completed her PhD, published as Christians in al-Andalus 711–1000 (2002), at Leeds and has published on the historiography of al-Andalus and on Christian–Muslim relations.

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August 27th, 2015

Author

Ann Christys

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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3 Maps

Pages

152

Series

Studies in Early Medieval History

Dimensions

156x234x13

ISBN-13

9781474213769

Product ID

22700274

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