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Redcar, Yorkshire
Reginbrond, bishop of Hedeby
Reginfrid (brother of Klak-Harald)
Reginfrid (Viking leader)
Reginfrid, king of Denmark
Reginold (relative of King Godfrid)
religion
poetry and
Vladimir’s choice of
see also
Christianity; gods; Heathen religion
Repton
Reric (trading settlement)
Reville, France
Reydarfjord, Iceland
Ribe, Denmark
Richard, duke of Normandy
Danish Viking mercenaries
Dudo’s history and
Ethelred the Unready and
Richard, duke of Normandy
Richards, Julian.
Richer of Reims
Ricsige, king of York
Rigsthula
Rimbert
on Anskar’s death
on Anskar’s mission to Denmark
on Anskar’s mission to Sweden
archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
credulity
on divination at Birka
on King Horic the Younger
on siege of Apulia
on Vikings in Baltic area
Rink, Hinrich
Robert (brother of Count Odo)
Robert, count of Neustria
Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia
Robert the Strong
Rochester
Rogaland, Norway
see also
Avaldsnes
Roger of Wendover
Rognvald (Viking leader)
Rognvald/Ragnvald, earl of Møre
Rök stone
Rollaug (Icelandic settler)
Rollesby, Norfolk
Rollo (Ganger Rolf)
Charles the Simple and
Christianity
Guthrum/Athelstan and
Paris siege
Rolvsøy, Norway
Rom, Oskar
Romanos Porphyrogenitos, Byzantine emperor
Rome
Ronan, son of Berach
Rorik (brother of Klak-Harald)
Rorik (nephew of Klak-Harald)
Rosellon
Roskilde, Denmark
see
Skuldelev ships
Rouen
archaeological finds
Asgeir’s capture of
Danish language in
Louis’s occupation of
Olav Haraldson’s baptism
Rollo and
St Ouen’s bones
William Longsword’s birth
Rouen Cathedral
Rousay, Orkney
Rudolf, king of Germany
Runamo rock, Sweden
Runcorn
rune-stones
Denmark: Jelling
Gotland
Ingvar’s expedition
Kingigtorssuaq Island
Norway
poetry on
Sweden : bridge-building; Frösö ; Gripsholm; Sjusta
runes
runic inscriptions
on amulets
blacksmiths in
Bressay stone
bridges and
Cnut’s followers in
on comb
Cumbria
gender imbalance
Gorm the Old in
Gotland
Greenland
Ingvar’s expedition
Isle of Man
Jelling stone
Kingigtorssuaq Island
Lund walking-stick
ni
ð
stöng
(shame-poles)
Norway
Oseberg ship burial
poetry
Thyrwi’s stone
‘vikings’ in
see also
Bressay stone
Runolf (Icelandic chieftain)
Rurik, prince of the Rus
Rus
Christianity
cremation
al-Ghazal and
Louis the Pious, king of the Franks and
see also
Kievan State
Rushen, Isle of Man
Russia
see also
Kiev
Rustain (place-name on Pilgårds stone)
Rüstringen, Frisia
Ryfylke, Norway
sacrifice
in autumn
of Erling Håkonsson
forbidden
to Frey
of horses
in Iceland
kings and
in Norway
to Odin
by Rollo
by Rus
in ship burials
to Thor
see also
funeral rites
Saeheim, Norway
Sæming
Sæmund the Learned
Saga of Erik the Red
Saga of Gisli
Saga of the Greenlanders
Saga of Gudmund Dyri
Saga of Gunnlaug Snake-tongue
Saga of Håkon the Good
Saga of Hallfred the Troublesome Skald
Saga of Harald Finehair
Saga of the Jomsvikings
Saga of Olaf Tryggvason
Saga of Orvar Odd
Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok and his Sons
Saga of St Olav
Saga of Sigurd the Crusader
Saga of Thorstein Oxfoot
St Aitherios island
St Brice’s Day Massacre
Saint-Claire-sur-Epte, treaty of
St David’s, bishop of
St Frideswide’s Abbey, Oxford
St Gregorios island
St Ninian’s Isle
St Patrick’s Island
St Quentin monastery
see also
Dudo of St Quentin
St Wystan’s Church, Repton
Salomon, king of Brittany
Salve, king of the Swedes
Sami
San Isidoro church, Léon: Spain
Sancha, queen, consort of Fernando, king of Castile and León
Sandar, Norway
Sandnes, Greenland
Sandwich, Kent
Santiago de Compostela
Sarkel (fortress)
Sasirethi, Georgia
Sawyer, Peter
Saxo Grammaticus
on cockerel as medium
on
haugbrott
on Jelling stone
on Klak-Harald
on Louis the Pious
on Ragnar Lodbrok
on Runamo rock
on Uppsala rites
on Viking raids across Baltic
Saxolb (chieftain)
Saxons
see also
Hamburg
‘Sayings of the High One, The’
Schleswig
Schleswig-Holstein, duchies of
Sciath Nechtain, battle of
Sciringsheal, Norway
see also
Kaupang
Scotland
see also
Caithness; Largs, Battle of; Northern Isles; Sutherland; Western Isles
Scratby, Norfolk
Seeburg
‘Seeress’s Prophecy, The’
Sées, bishops of
seid see
divination
Seine (river)
Rollo at
Viking camp
Viking raids
Selinas (river)
Selja, Norway
Seljalandshellir, Iceland
Serkland
Seulf, archbishop
Seville
shamanism
see also
divination
shame
shame-poles
Shara, bishopric of
Sheppey, Kent
Shetelig, Haakon
Shetland
Bressay stone
Christianity
cross carvings
language
place-names
ship burials
horses in
Iceland
Île de Groix
Karmøy
sacrifice in
Snorri Sturluson on
Sweden
see also
funeral rites; Gokstad ship burial; Oseberg ship burial; Sutton Hoo ship burial; Tune ship burial
ship museum, Norway
ship-settings
shipbuilding
ships
see also
navigation; ship burials; shipbuilding
Sicily
Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury
Sigfred (Viking leader)
Sigfrid (Viking leader)
Sigfrid, Danish king
Sigfrid, Saint
Sigrdrífa (Valkyrie)
Sigtrygg (Viking leader)
Sigtrygg/Sihtricáech
Sigtuna, Sweden
Sigtuna, bishop of
Sigurd (uncle of Olaf Tryggvason)
Sigurd, earl in Trøndelag
Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
Sigurd Jorsalafarer, king of Norway
Sigurd the Powerful, earl of Orkney
Sigurd the Stout, earl of Orkney
Sigurd syr, king in Norway
Sigvat Thordarson (poet)
on blood-eagle
Erfirdrápa
Magnus Olavsson and
on Olav Haraldson
in Rouen
Sihtric (grandson of Ivar the Boneless)
Sihtric, king of York
Sihtric/Sigtryggáech
Sihtric Silkbeard
Silkisiv, queen
Simeon of Durham
Sineus, prince of the Rus
Sinfjötli (in ‘First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbani’)
Sjælland/Sjelland
Denmark
see also
Leire
Sjusta rune-stone, Sweden
Skadi (giantess)
skaldic poetry
Cnut and
on Karlevi rune-stone
Olav Haraldson and
Prose Edda
and
religion and
in Sweden
Thorvald the Far-Traveller
‘vikings’ in
see also
‘Erfidrápa’; ‘Glælognskvida’; ‘Håkonarmál’;
Haraldskvæthi
;
Haustlong
;
kennings
; ‘Ragnarsdrapa’;
Vellekla
;
Vikingarvísur
;
Ynglingatal
Skåne, Sweden
forts
Holy River battle
law on ordeals
Lund
part of Denmark
Rollo in
rune-stones
Skara, bishop of
Skarphedin Njalsson
Skellig Michael, Ireland
Skipton
Skjold, king of the Danes
Skonvig, Jon
Skriddalur, Iceland
Skuldelev ships
Skye
Slagelse, Denmark
Slagen, Norway
slave trade
Ireland
Nantes raid
Rus
in Wulfstan’s sermon
slaves and slavery
in funeral rites
Greenland
Olaf Tryggvason
Rus
Sweden
in Wulfstan’s sermon
Slavomir (Obodrite prince)
Slavs
Charlemagne and
Christianity
slavery
see also
Obodrites
Sleipnir (horse)
Smiss stone, Gotland
Smolensk
Snaefell, Isle of Man
Snám Aignech, battle of
Snorri Sturluson
on ‘blood-eagle’
on Christianity in Norway
on Domaldi
on Domar
on Erik Bloodaxe
on Håkon the Good
on Hallfred the Troublesome Skald
on Harald Bluetooth
on Harald Finehair
on horse-racing
on
Jól
(midwinter feast)
on Jomsvikings
on Magnus Olavsson
Morkinskinna
source
on Odin
on Olaf Tryggvason
on Olav Haraldson
on Olof Skottkonung
Prose Edda
on Ragnarök
reliability as source
on Rollo
on runic alphabet
on settlement of Iceland
view of Aesir
view of Sigvat Thordarson (poet)
‘Ynglingasaga’
Södermanland, Sweden
Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Somerset
songs
sorcery
see
divination
sources, reliability
Southampton
Spain
see also
al-Andalus; Galicia; Gijon; Pamplona; Seville
spells
see
divination; shamanism
Spencer, Herbert
Spillings hoard
Stafford
Stainmore
Stamford Bridge, battle of
Star-Oddi Helgason
Staraja Ladoga
Steenstrup, Johannes
Stefnir (Icelandic missionary)
Stein, Estland
Steinn (named on Frösö stone)
Steinun (Icelandic poet)
Stengade, Denmark
Stenkil, king of Sweden
Stentoft stone
Stiklestad, battle of
Stora Hammars picture-stone, Gotland
see also
Hammars picture-stone
Storhaug ship burial
Storm, Gustav
Stour (river)
Strabo, Walafrid
Strait of Belle Isle
Strathclyde
Straumfjord, Vinland
Stronsay, Orkney
Strukun rapids
Sturlunga Saga
Styrbjørn Starke
Surrey
Surt (fire-giant)
Sussex
Sutherland
Sutherland, Patricia
Sutton Hoo ship burial
Suttung (giant)
Svegdir, king of the Swedes
Sven (Blotsven), king of Sweden
Sven Aggesen
Sven Cnutsson, king of Norway
Sven Estridson, king of Denmark
Sven Estrithson, king of Denmark
Sven Forkbeard, king of Denmark
control of Vik
death
in England
Harald Bluetooth and
Lund church
Olaf Tryggvason and
Olof Sköttkonung and
Sven Håkonarson, earl of Lade
Svinnegarn stone
Svolder, battle of

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