TAILIEUCHUNG - The A to Z of the Vikings 33

The A to Z of the Vikings 33. This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the impact the Vikings had on the areas where they traveled and settled. There is a chronological table, detailed and annotated bibliographies for different themes and geographical locations, and an introduction discussing the major events and developments of the Viking age | 298 YNGLINGATAL precise relationship between Ynglingatal Historia Norwegiae the Book of the Icelanders and Ynglinga Saga is unclear. YNGLINGATAL. Ninth-century poem composed by the Norwegian Thjodolf Pjodolfr of Hvin for King Rognvald the Highly-Honored heidumhari of Vestfold in southeastern Norway. This poem was the main source for Snorri Sturluson s Ynglinga Saga in which it is preserved. Some 27 ancestors of Rognvald are listed in the poem with descriptions of their deaths and burial places linking the king with the legendary Yngling dynasty of Gamla Uppsala in Sweden. YNGVARR INN VIDFORLA. See INGVAR THE FAR-TRAVELED. YORK ON Jorvik . The Old Norse name for this town appears to be a corruption of Anglo-Saxon Eoforwic itself in turn a corruption of Latin Eboracum. Located on the River Ouse York was the principal town of northern England and administrative capital of the kingdom of Northumbria in the Viking Age. The Romans had established a fort in York around 71 AD and by 314 the town was a bishop s see. However little is known about York in the post-Roman early Anglian period from written sources apart from its location within the kingdom of Deira stretching from the Humber to the River Tees. During the seventh and eighth centuries a little more is known thanks to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede s Ecclesiastical History although these details are principally the names of kings and bishops. In 735 York was raised to the status of an archiepiscopal see. There is little archaeological evidence for settlement within the town walls during the early Anglo-Saxon period. The Great Army captured York in 866-867. Following this the town was under Danish control but nothing is known about this rule until the Viking leader Halfdan apparently assumed direct control in 875 when his army settled in Northumbria plowing and providing for themselves according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The first definite Scandinavian king of York was Guthfrith whose death on 24 August 895

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