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Hítdælakappa
    Bjarni Herjolfsson
    Bjólan, king in the Hebrides
    Björk (Greenlander)
    Bjørn, king at Birka
    Bjørn (priest, in Saga of Gudmund Dyri )
    Bjørn (Viking leader)
    Björn Gilsson, bishop
    Bjørn Ironside
    black foreigners
    Blamac (monk)
    Blekinge, Sweden
    Bochult, battle of
    Bogeviken, Gotland
    Bohuslän, Sweden
    Bømlo, Norway
    see also Moster
    Borg, Norway
    Borgarthing, Norway
    Borgeby, Sweden
    Borre, Norway
    Borre style
    Bouin, Aquitaine
    Bovi (follower of Cnut)
    Bowers, Mr
    Boyne (river)
    Bragi (poet)
    Bragi the Old
    Brattahlid, Greenland
    Brega, Ireland
    Bremen
    see also Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric
    Brendan, Saint
    Bressay stone
    Brian Boru, high-king of Ireland
    Bridei, king of the Picts
    Bridgnorth
    Brihtwulf, king of Mercia
    Brink, Thorgunn Snædal
    Bristol, trade
    British Isles
    see also England; Ireland; Isle of Man; Scotland; Wales
    Brittany
    Anjou ceded to
    campaign to reclaim
    Cotentin and Avranchin
    Normandy and
    Vikings in
    see also Île de Groix
    Bro stone
    Broadcarr, Norfolk
    Bromborough
    Brunanburh, battle of
    Brynjolfúr Sveinsson
    Buckingham
    Buckinghamshire
    Buckquoy, Orkney
    Bulgars
    Burgred, king of Mercia
    Burgundy
    Burgundy, king of
    burhs
    Buri (giant)
    burials
    Birka
    children’s
    Christian ground
    France
    Gorm the Old
    Gotland
    Ibn Rustah’s account
    Iceland
    Isle of Man
    Jelling
    Latvia
    master/mistress and slave
    Norway
    opening of mounds
    Repton, England
    runic inscriptions
    Slagelse fort
    Staraja Ladoga settlement
    see also cremation; funeral rites; ship burials
    Byfield, Massachusetts
    Bygdøy, Norway
    Byrhtferth of Ramsey
    Byrhtnoth (British leader)
    Byzantine empire

    Cadiz
    Caerball (Irish leader)
    Caithness
    calendar
    Calf of Man
    Cambridge
    Cambridgeshire
    Camp de Péran, Brittany
    Cantabria
    Canterbury
    Capet, Hugh, king of France
    Carhampton
    Carlton
    Carolingian empire
    see also Charlemagne; Franks; Normandy
    Castlerea, Ireland
    Catillus (father of Rollo)
    Caxton, William
    Cenwulf, king of Mercia
    Ceolwulf, king of Mercia
    Charlemagne
    Alcuin and
    Brittany and
    Christianity and
    death
    Denmark and
    envoys to Northumbria
    Holy Roman Emperor
    kingship model
    Magnus Olafsson named for
    Saxons and
    Saxony dioceses
    Vikings and
    see also Carolingian empire
    Charles the Bald, king of the Western Franks
    appeasement of Vikings
    battle with Vikings
    envoys to Danes
    Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor
    Charles the Simple, king of the Western Franks
    Chartres, France
    Chat Moss, Lancashire
    Cherson
    Cheshire
    see also Runcorn
    Chester
    children
    Chippenham
    Christianity
    Adam of Bremen’s prejudice
    baptism of deformed children
    burials in Christian ground
    Charlemagne
    Cnut, king
    Denmark : Anskar’s mission ; Ebbo of Reims; Harald Bluetooth ; Horic; Klak-Harald ; Olaf Tryggvason; Willibrord’s mission
    England
    Greenland
    Guthrum/Athelstan
    Hallfred Ottarson (the Troublesome Poet)
    Harald Finehair
    Hasting (Viking leader)
    heathen religion and
    homosexuality and
    horse-flesh taboo
    Iceland: conversion ; Irish Christians in; Thangbrand’s mission
    ‘Ingvar’ rune-stones
    Ireland
    Irish/Viking intermarriages
    Normandy
    Norway: Håkon the Good ; Harald Bluetooth ; Olaf Tryggvason ; Olav Haraldsson
    Olaf Sihtricsson
    Orkney
    Picts
    poetry and
    Poland
    in Ragnarök story
    Rollo
    Rus
    Shetland
    Sihtric of York
    Slavs
    Sweden: Anskar’s mission ; Birka
    Varangians
    Vascony
    ‘viking’ connotations
    Western Isles
    women and
    see also Orthodox Christianity
    Cianacht (Irishman)
    Cinaed, king of North Brega
    Clement, Pope
    Clonmacnoise, Ireland
    Clontarf, battle of
    Cluain Ferta Brénainn, Ireland
    Cnut, king of Denmark and England
    Christianity
    death
    Edmund Ironside and
    law codes
    Lund
    Olav Haraldson and
    retainers’ punishment of audacity
    Sigvat’s praise-poem
    succession to Danish throne
    Cnut(St Cnut), king of Denmark
    Coimbra, Portugal
    Colchester, Essex
    Cologne
    Columba, Saint
    Comgall, Saint
    Compostela, bishop of
    Conaille, Ireland
    Conlaed, casket/reliquary