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of Brittany
    Alaskog picture-stone, Gotland
    Alcacer do Sal, Portugal
    Alcuin (monk)
    Charlemagne and
    credulity
    on heathens’ conversion
    on heathens’ vanity and immodesty
    on Lindisfarne attack
    rebuke for copying heathen fashions
    warning to Wearmouth and Jarrow
    Wulfstan and
    Aldulf (deacon)
    Alexander, Byzantine emperor
    Alexander, Pope
    Alexander, Pope
    Alfonso, bishop Don
    Alfred, king of Wessex
    Guthrum/Athelstan and
    Hastein/Hasting and
    Mercia and
    Nottingham siege
    Ottar and
    Rollo and
    translation of Augustine’s Soliloquies
    Vikings’ oath on sacred ring
    ‘Alfred Jewel’
    Algarve, the
    Algeciras
    Aller
    Alney
    Alphege, Saint, archbishop of Canterbury
    Alphonse, king of Galicia
    Alsvinn (horse)
    Althing
    Greenland
    Iceland
    see also thing meetings
    Ameralik, Greenland
    America see North America
    Amiens, France
    Amlaib/Olaf, king of Dublin
    Amma (mother of Heimdall’s child)
    al-Andalus
    see also Iberian peninsula
    Andover
    Angantyr, king of the Danes
    Angerboda (giantess)
    Anglesey
    Angmagssalik, Greenland
    Anjou
    Anlaf (Viking raider)
    see also Olaf Tryggvason
    Anna (sister of Basil)
    Anskar, Saint
    archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
    bishop of Hamburg
    death and canonization
    exile from Hamburg
    mission to Danes
    mission to Swedes
    Antwerp
    Anund, king in Birka
    Anund, king of Sweden
    Anund Jakob (Olofsson), king in Sweden
    Anwend (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
    Apulia
    Aquitaine
    Arabs see Islamic countries
    Arbmann, H., and Nilsson, N.-O.
    Arbo, P. N.
    Argyll, Scotland
    Århus, Denmark
    Ari Thorgilsson (‘the Learned’)
    on Iceland’s conversion
    on Iceland’s laws
    on Olav Haraldson
    on place-name ‘Dritsker’
    on Ragnar Lodbrok
    reliability as source
    on settlement of Iceland
    on Thangbrand
    Armagh monastery
    Army Road, Denmark
    Arnkel (in Eyrbyggja Saga )
    Arras, France
    artwork
    Arvakr (horse)
    Ásbjörn (named on Frösö stone)
    Asgard
    Asgeir (Viking leader)
    Ashdown
    Ashington, Essex
    Asilah, Morocco
    Ask (first man)
    Askold (Rus leader)
    Asmundarleidi, Iceland
    Asselt
    Asser, archbishop of Lund
    Asser, bishop of Sherborne
    on Alfred’s flight to Somerset
    on Alfred’s treaty with Guthrum
    on foreign monks at Athelney
    on Ubbi
    on Viking monk
    on Viking raiders
    Assur (named on Bro stone)
    Åsta (mother of Olav Haraldson)
    Ástráðor (named on Tirsted rune-stone)
    Astrid (mother of Olaf Tryggvason)
    Astrid, queen, consort of Olav Haraldson
    astronomy
    see also navigation
    Asturia
    Athelhelm, bishop of Wells, later archbishop of Canterbury
    Athelney
    Athelstan, king of Wessex
    Brunanburh battle
    Erik Bloodaxe and
    Håkon Athelstansfostri and
    Oda, bishop of Ramsbury, and
    Athelstan/Guthrum see Guthrum (later Athelstan)
    Atli (speaker at Nidaros assembly)
    Attigny
    Aud the Deep-minded
    Audhumla (mythological cow)
    Aurvandil (dwarf)
    Austmaðr (named on Frösö stone)
    Austmannadalen, Greenland
    Autbert (companion of St Anskar)
    Avaldsay, Orkney
    Avaldsnes, Norway
    Avranche, bishops of
    Avranchin

    Baffin Island
    Baghdad
    Bagrat, king in Georgia
    Bagsecg (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
    Bakewell
    Baldwin, king of Jerusalem
    Balearic Islands
    Ballateare, Isle of Man
    Balsta stone
    Baltic area
    Rus and
    see also Gotland
    Baltic-Dnieper/Volga trade routes
    Bamburgh
    Bandelundeviken, Gotland
    Bangor monastery
    Banki (named on Svinnegarn stone)
    Bård the Stout
    Bardr (Greenlander)
    Barlingbo, Gotland
    Bartholomew, Saint
    Barufors rapids
    Bashi, Georgia
    Basil, Byzantine emperor
    Basing, Hampshire
    Basques
    Bayeaux
    Bayonne
    Beaduheard (reeve)
    Beauvais
    Beauvais, bishop of
    Bede
    Bedford
    Bedfordshire
    Beela (river)
    Belle Isle, Strait of
    Benevento, Italy
    Benfleet
    Bennchor see Bangor monastery
    Berengar of Ivrea
    Berg the Bold (in Vatnsdaela Saga )
    Bergen, Norway
    Berglund, Joel
    Berkshire
    Bermeo, Spain
    Bernicia
    Bestla (giantess)
    Biddle, Martin
    Birka, Sweden
    Christianity
    divination at
    trade
    vase
    Birsay, Orkney
    Biscay
    Biscay, Bay of
    Bjarkøyretten
    Bjarnar saga