Jón Viðar Sigurðsson is a Professor of History in the Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, University of Oslo. He is the author of a large number of monographs and articles on Medieval Scandinavia including Den vennlige vikingen. Vennskapets makt i Norge og på Island ca. 900-1300 (Oslo, Pax, 2010), and Chieftains and Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth (Transl. Jean Lundskær-Nielsen, Odense 1999).Timothy Bolton is an independent scholar and an honorary fellow of the School of History, University of Wales, Cardiff. He is the author of a monograph on The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009), as well as a number of articles on Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Scandinavian history.

• Preface ... viiList of Illustrations ... xvList of Contributors ... xvii1. Vikings’ Settlements in Ireland Before 1014 ... 1Clare Downham2. Names for the Vikings in Irish Annals ... 23Colmán Etchingham3. Saints’ Cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian Influence around the Cumberland Coast and North of the Solway Firth ... 39Fiona Edmonds4. The Kingdom of Man and the Earldom of Orkney—Some Comparisons ... 65Barbara E. Crawford5. No Soil for Saints: Why was There No Native Royal Martyr in Man and the Isles? ... 81Ian Beuermann6. Slavery, Power and Cultural Identity in the Irish Sea Region, 1066–1171 ... 97David Wyatt7. Pagan Myth and Christian Doctrine ... 109Jan Erik Rekdal8. Ceramic and Cultural Change in the Hebrides AD 500–1300 ... 119Alan Lane9. Homeland—Strange Land—New Land. Material and Theoretical Aspects of Defining Norse Identity in the Viking Age ... 151Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad10. Viking Weapons in Irish Wetlands ... 171Julie Lund11. From *AnleifR to Havelok: The English and the Irish Sea ... 187John HinesIndex ... 215

"This volume presents a wide range of approaches and evidence relating to a broad region in the ninth to thirteenth centuries. That this breadth is achieved without straying from the aim to address ‘Celtic-Norse relationships’ is a major strength of the volume. [...] This will be a valuable collection for encouraging interdisciplinary reading amongst students of the Irish Sea, and indeed future students of the Irish Sea Province." Alison Leonard, University of York, in: Northern Scotland, 9 (2018), pp. 73-76.