The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland

Résumé du livre

Written by one of Britain’s foremost experts in medieval culture, this account counters popular historical belief by proposing that there was a Saxon settlement in both Orkney and Shetland, Scotland, during the fourth century AD. Arguing that the Saxons, a minority group, were subsumed into the Norwegian Viking population that migrated to the islands around AD 790, it demonstrates how these people had a 400-year presence on the islands. Based on extensive linguistic, historical, and archaeological research, this book casts a new light on the origins of the first island settlers.