[Gandur] Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland

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We are pleased to announce that the first major publication of the Viking Age in Finland project is now avialable:
_Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland_, ed. Joonas Ahola & Frog with Clive Tolley, Studia Fennica Historica 18, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 516 pageshttps://kirjat.finlit.fi/index.php?showitem=3011

'Were there Vikings in Finland?’ Fibula, Fabula, Fact – The Viking Age in Finland is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion. The nineteen chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines. Discussions are presented from fields including archaeology, folklore studies, genetics, geopolitics, historiography, language history, linguistics, palaeobotany, semiotics and toponymy. Each chapter is intended to help open the resources and the history of discourse of the particular discipline in a way that will be accessible to specialists from other fields, specialists from outside Finland, and also to non-specialist readers and students who may be more generally interested in the topic.
Contents:

Preface: The Project, Goals, Methods and Outcomes 8
Acknowledgements 17

Introduction

Joonas Ahola & Frog
Approaching the Viking Age in Finland: An Introduction 21

Part I: Time

Clive Tolley
Language in Viking Age Finland: An Overview 91

Ville Laakso
The Viking Age in Finnish Archaeology: A Brief Source-Critical Overview 104

Samuli Helama
The Viking Age as a Period of Contrasting Climatic Trends 117

Tuukka Talvio
The Viking Age in Finland: Numismatic Aspects 131

Sirpa Aalto
Viking Age in Finland? - Naming a Period as a Historiographical Problem 139

Petri Kallio
The Diversification of Proto-Finnic 155

Part II: Space

Jukka Korpela
Reach and Supra-Local Consciousness in the Medieval Nordic Periphery 175

Mervi Koskela Vasaru
Bjarmaland and Contacts in the Late-Prehistoric and Early-Medieval North 195

Jari-Matti Kuusela
>From Coast to Inland: Activity Zones in North Finland during the Iron Age 219

Teija Alenius
Pollen Analysis as a Tool for Reconstructing Viking Age Landscapes 242

Matti Leiviskä
Toponymy as a Source for the Early History of Finland 253

Denis Kuzmin
The Inhabitation of Karelia in the First Millennium AD in the Light of Linguistics 269

Lassi Heininen, Joonas Ahola & Frog
‘Geopolitics’ of the Viking Age? - Actors, Factors and Space 296

Part III: People

Sami Raninen & Anna Wessman
Finland as a Part of the ‘Viking World’ 327

Elina Salmela
The (Im)Possibilities of Genetics for Studies of Population History 347

Joonas Ahola
Kalevalaic Heroic Epic and the Viking Age in Finland 361

Kaisa Häkkinen
Finnish Language and Culture of the Viking Age in Finland 387
Johan Schalin
Scandinavian–Finnish Language Contact in the Viking Age in the Light of Borrowed Names 399

Frog
Myth, Mythological Thinking and the Viking Age in Finland 437

Afterword

Joonas Ahola, Frog & Clive Tolley
Vikings in Finland? - Closing Considerations on the Viking Age in Finland 485

Index of Cross-References between Chapters 504
Index of Personal Names 505
Index of Place Names 507
General Index 511