Jesch, Judith. Ships and men in the late Viking age
- Author: Jesch, Judith
- Title: Ships and men in the late Viking age Ships and men in the late Viking age. The vocabulary of runic inscriptions and skaldic verse
- Place, Publisher: Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press
- Year: 2001
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- Reference: Jesch, Judith. Ships and men in the late Viking age Ships and men in the late Viking age. The vocabulary of runic inscriptions and skaldic verse. Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2001.
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Annotation
In this volume, Judith Jesch investigates what she refers to as the “typically 'viking' aspects of the late Viking Age” of ships and sailing, voyages abroad, organization of ship's crew, military organization, and the social ethos behind and resulting from such activities. In her exploration she makes use of mostly textual sources; rune stones and saga literature being the most prevalent. From a linguistic and textual perspective, Jesch explores vocabulary regarding the aforementioned activities which she understands as “typical” and symbolically important to the character of the Viking Age and its study. Engagement with Egils saga is sparse. In her chapter on the locations of foreign voyages, she cites the description in Egils saga of the Battle of and the use of the name of the river Vína mentioned therein.
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Chapter 55: Vínu: "Despite the saga account of his visit to Kúrland, the coastal region south of Dómisnes, not even Egill's poetry provides any relevant place-names, unless we believe that the Vína in Egill VII, 10 is the Dvína rather than whatever river was nearest to the battle of Vínheiðr (which may or may not have been the battle of Brunanburh)." (p. 94)
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