 Scandinavian Scotland by Barbara E. Crawford
In no other area of historical study in the early Middle Ages can the demands be greater to surmount the barriers of traditional academic disciplines. Because of the paucity of contemporary historical information, much of the book draws on archaeological evidence including hoard material and stone scupture as well as linguistic (place-names) and literary (saga) sources. The reference frameworks of these different disciplines are treated separately, but the main historical problrms - the nature of the Viking impact and the type of settlement which followed, the significance of those invasions on the developing history of Scotland, and the process by which the settlers were converted to Christianity - are kept clearly to the fore.
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