Abstract
dc:description.abstractCurrent scholarship regarding Scandinavia has neglected to give all but a cursory glance at the factors involved in Viking expansion. This thesis studies and explains employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian migration, conquest, and adventure from the eighth through the eleventh centuries AD. Afterwards, these investigations are used to describe the various and sometimes conflicting forces of expansion that led to the formation of the Danelaw in England circa AD 870. Over time, the eventual adoption of Christianity and feudal relationships within Scandinavia would bring expansion as well as the Viking Age to a close.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MA
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Year dc:date.available
- 2002
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cox, Darrin M.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Stephen McCluskey.
- Patrick Conner
- Matthew Vester
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/819
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1822