This report studies Old-Norse Pap-names, which have traditionally been taken to indicate early Christian Gael settlements. It highlights the Hebrides and presents a toponymic inventory of Hebridean Pap-names, comparing them with areas of known early Christian settlement. It concludes that the Pap-names should be taken to denote not pre-Viking Christian settlement, but in fact the earliest Scandinavian colonisation of the area.
This report studies Old-Norse Pap-names, which have traditionally been taken to indicate early Christian Gael settlements. It highlights the Hebrides ...
That Gaelic monasticism flourished in the early medieval period is well established. The "Irish School" penetrated large areas of Europe and contemporary authors describe North Atlantic travels and settlements. Across Scotland and beyond, Celtic-speaking communities spread into the wild and windswept north, marking hundreds of Atlantic settlements with carved and rock-cut sculpture. They were followed in the Viking Age by Scandinavians who dominated the Atlantic waters and settled the Atlantic rim.
With Into the Ocean, Kristjan Ahronson makes two dramatic claims: that there...
That Gaelic monasticism flourished in the early medieval period is well established. The "Irish School" penetrated large areas of Europe and contem...
