Ingimund's Saga: Norwegian Wirral - Softcover

Stephen Harding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1871201098 ISBN 13: 9781871201093

Publisher: Liver Press, 2000

Synopsis

An in-depth look at the Viking settlers from Norway who arrived on the Wirral peninsula. 1100 years ago a group of Viking settlers from Norway arrived somewhere between Vestri-Kirkjubur (West Kirby) and Melr (Meols) on the shores of north Wirral - a small peninsula lying between the Rivers Dee and Mersey - having been driven out of Ireland. This initiated a mass migration of their fellow countrymen into the area and soon they had established a community with a clearly defined border, its own leader, its own language, a trading port, and at its center a place of assembly or government - the Thing at Thingvollr (Thingwall). This community was answerable to nobody else: the English, the Welsh, the Dublin Norse, the Isle of Man, Iceland, and not even Norway. The Wirral Norse settlement therefore satisfied all the criteria of an independent, self-governing Viking State - albeit a mini one! This book, written by Wirral-exile and scientist Steve Harding, is about these people, why they left Norway, where they settled, their religion, their pastimes - such as horse-racing at Irby and rock-climbing at Wallasey - and the legends that have been attributed to them. Wirral was also probably witness to one of the greatest battles in the history of the British Isles - Brunanburh.

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About the Author

Stephen Harding was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford receiving a DSc. He was an Ernest Oppenheimer Fellow at Cambridge and is now Professor of Applied Biochemistry at Nottingham. Fellow scientists know him as a Biomolecular Hydrodynamicist with over 350 publications & he is a Medallist of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The public know him for his work on Vikings and DNA, particularly in the region of his origins - Wirral, near Liverpool in NW England. Steve has appeared in many TV & radio broadcasts, featuring in all three series of ITV's highly acclaimed Lost Treasures and runs a popular blog with David Griffiths.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liver Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1871201098
• ISBN 13: 9781871201093
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 234