A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain

Based on my Ph.D., this book asks how Viking-Age Scandinavians and their trading partners created and sustained vast trade networks, and their underlying silver economies, that stretched from Central Asia to Britain and Ireland (Routledge 2021).

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The Viking Age in Scotland

With its origins in a 2018 conference I co-organised and Graham-Campbell & Batey’s seminal 1998 book, Vikings in Scotland, The Viking Age in Scotland gathered expert authors from across the spectrum of Scottish Scandinavian archaeology to produce a book on the state of the art in the field (Edinburgh University Press 2022).

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Chapters & Report Contributions

Viking and Norse Bullion Economies in Scandinavian Scotland, in The Viking Age in Scotland: Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology, 276-288.

Silver Threads: How Scandinavian Scotland connected with a wider economic world, in D. Steinforth and C. Rozier (eds) Britain and its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 69-86.

Hacksilver?, in Sharples (ed), The Economy of a Norse Settlement. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 109.

Balance component (with R. Smith), in Sharples (ed), The Economy of a Norse Settlement. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 108-9.

Weights (with R. Smith), in Sharples (ed), The Economy of a Norse Settlement. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 106-8.

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Book Review

Book Review, the Archaeological Journal: Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns edited by Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019, iv and 283 pp., Illus. 89, £38.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781789251609

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References & Citations

I was delighted to see ‘A Viking Market Kingdom’ referenced in 2024’s ‘Life in the Viking Great Army – Raiders, Traders, and Settlers’ (OUP).

My thanks to Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards, and Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry and Mark Randerson.

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It is a real honour to see A Viking Market Kingdom being cited by a range of scholars.