Foreword (Ole Crumlin-Pedersen & Friedrich Lüth)
Wulfstan's Account; Wulfstan’s voyage and his description of
Estland: the text and the language of the text (Janet Bately); Who
was Wulfstan? (Judith Jesch); Wulfstan’s account in the context of
early medieval travel literature (Rudolf Simek); On the reliability
of Wulfstan’s report (Przemyslaw Urbanczyk)
The Western and Central Baltic Sea Region in the 9th and 10th
Centuries; Ests, Slavs and Saxons: ethnic groups and political
structures (Christian Lübke, with a note by Przemyslaw Urbanczyk);
Danes and Swedes in written and archaeological sources at the end
of the 9th century (Wladyslaw Duczko); Routes and long-distance
traffic thee nodal points of Wulfstan’s voyage (Søren M. Sindbæk);
Hedeby in Wulfstan’s days: a Danish emporium of the Viking Age
between East and West (Volker Hilberg); Wulfstan and the coast of
southern Scandinavia: sailing routes from Langeland to Möre (Johan
Callmer); Viking-Age sailing routes of the western Baltic Sea a
matter of safety (Jens Ulriksen); Harbours and trading centres on
Bornholm, Öland and Gotland in the late 9th century (Anne Nørgård
Jørgensen); Ports and emporia of the southern coast: from Hedeby to
Usedom and Wolin (Hauke Jöns); The settlement of Truso (Marek F.
Jagodzinski); Handelsplätze zwischen Danziger und Rigaer Bucht zur
Zeit Wulfstans (Vladas Zulkus & Mindaugas Bertasius)
Navigating the Baltic Sea; Transport zones in Wulfstan’s
days (Christer Westerdahl); An 8th-century written source on ships
and navigation: the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister (Ian Wood &
George Indruszewski); Boats and ships of the Baltic Sea in the 9th
and 10th centuries: the archaeological and iconographic evidence
(Ole Crumlin-Pedersen); Sailing in Wulfstan’s wake: the 2004 trial
voyage Hedeby-Gdansk with the Skuldelev 1 reconstruction, Ottar
(Anton Englert & Waldemar Ossowski); Seafaring then and now (Seán
McGrail); The art of sailing like Wulfstan (George Indruszewski &
Jon Godal, with contributions by Max Vinner)
Exchange and Control; Principles of trade and exchange:
trade goods and merchants (Heiko Steuer); The 9th-century Christian
mission to the North (Jörn Staecker); The Christian mission in the
northwestern Slavic territories (Felix Biermann); Piracy and naval
organisation in the Baltic Sea in the 9th century: some security
considerations concerning Wulfstan’s voyage (Jan Bill);
Summary (Michael Müller-Wille)
Athena Trakadas is a curator at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, and co-editor of the Journal of Maritime Archaeology. She is a commercial diver and holds BAs in Classics and Anthropology, a MA in Nautical Archaeology, a Cand.Mag. in Roman Archaeology, and a PhD in maritime archaeology.
Wulfstans Voyage is a welcome addition to the literature on the lands round the Baltic Sea in the early Middle Ages and it also presents a fresh study of an important, brief geographical text. With a wealth of information in the text, the volume also is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, and charts.' -- International Journal of Maritime History International Journal of Maritime History This volume refocuses our attention on the importance of the maritime and littoral regions of northern medieval Europe, and more specifically the Mare Balticum.' -- Antiquity Antiquity [...]a valuable overview of our present knowledge of seafaring and life in the coastal areas around the southern Baltic Sea in the ninth and tenth centuries.' -- The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord
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