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Wulfstan's Voyage: The Baltic Sea Region in the early Viking Age as seen from shipboard(2 Maritime Culture of the North)

Wulfstan's Voyage: The Baltic Sea Region in the early Viking Age as seen from shipboard(2 Maritime Culture of the North)


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Wulfstan’s account covers a voyage from the root of Jutland to the Vistula Delta – connecting the trading centres of Hedeby and Truso – and provides a rare and vivid view of the south-eastern Baltic Sea region in the early Viking Age, including aspects of inland navigation and local culture. In this book, a panel of scholars presents the original source and debate its geographical, cultural, nautical and economic context in the light of recent investigations.

Table of Contents:
Foreword (Ole Crumlin-Pedersen & Friedrich Lüth) Wulfstan's Account; Wulfstan’s voyage and his description of Estland: the text and the language of the text (Janet Bately); Who was Wulfstan? (Judith Jesch); Wulfstan’s account in the context of early medieval travel literature (Rudolf Simek); On the reliability of Wulfstan’s report (Przemyslaw Urbanczyk) The Western and Central Baltic Sea Region in the 9th and 10th Centuries; Ests, Slavs and Saxons: ethnic groups and political structures (Christian Lübke, with a note by Przemyslaw Urbanczyk); Danes and Swedes in written and archaeological sources at the end of the 9th century (Wladyslaw Duczko); Routes and long-distance traffic thee nodal points of Wulfstan’s voyage (Søren M. Sindbæk); Hedeby in Wulfstan’s days: a Danish emporium of the Viking Age between East and West (Volker Hilberg); Wulfstan and the coast of southern Scandinavia: sailing routes from Langeland to Möre (Johan Callmer); Viking-Age sailing routes of the western Baltic Sea a matter of safety (Jens Ulriksen); Harbours and trading centres on Bornholm, Öland and Gotland in the late 9th century (Anne Nørgård Jørgensen); Ports and emporia of the southern coast: from Hedeby to Usedom and Wolin (Hauke Jöns); The settlement of Truso (Marek F. Jagodzinski); Handelsplätze zwischen Danziger und Rigaer Bucht zur Zeit Wulfstans (Vladas Zulkus & Mindaugas Bertasius) Navigating the Baltic Sea; Transport zones in Wulfstan’s days (Christer Westerdahl); An 8th-century written source on ships and navigation: the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister (Ian Wood & George Indruszewski); Boats and ships of the Baltic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries: the archaeological and iconographic evidence (Ole Crumlin-Pedersen); Sailing in Wulfstan’s wake: the 2004 trial voyage Hedeby-Gdansk with the Skuldelev 1 reconstruction, Ottar (Anton Englert & Waldemar Ossowski); Seafaring then and now (Seán McGrail); The art of sailing like Wulfstan (George Indruszewski & Jon Godal, with contributions by Max Vinner) Exchange and Control; Principles of trade and exchange: trade goods and merchants (Heiko Steuer); The 9th-century Christian mission to the North (Jörn Staecker); The Christian mission in the northwestern Slavic territories (Felix Biermann); Piracy and naval organisation in the Baltic Sea in the 9th century: some security considerations concerning Wulfstan’s voyage (Jan Bill); Summary (Michael Müller-Wille)

About the Author :
Athena Trakadas is a curator at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, and co-editor of the Journal of Maritime Archaeology. She is a commercial diver and holds BAs in Classics and Anthropology, a MA in Nautical Archaeology, a Cand.Mag. in Roman Archaeology, and a PhD in maritime archaeology.

Review :
Wulfstans Voyage is a welcome addition to the literature on the lands round the Baltic Sea in the early Middle Ages and it also presents a fresh study of an important, brief geographical text. With a wealth of information in the text, the volume also is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, and charts.' -- International Journal of Maritime History International Journal of Maritime History This volume refocuses our attention on the importance of the maritime and littoral regions of northern medieval Europe, and more specifically the Mare Balticum.' -- Antiquity Antiquity [...]a valuable overview of our present knowledge of seafaring and life in the coastal areas around the southern Baltic Sea in the ninth and tenth centuries.' -- The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788785180568
  • Publisher: Viking Ship Museum
  • Publisher Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Baltic Sea Region in the early Viking Age as seen from shipboard
  • ISBN-10: 8785180564
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Series Title: 2 Maritime Culture of the North


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