Date: 4th – 14th July.
Theme: The Viking Age in The Isle of Man.
Patron: His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man Rear-Admiral Sir Nigel Cecil, KBE, CB.
Organising Committee: Christine Fell, Peter Foote, James Graham-Campbell, Raymond Page, David M. Wilson (Chairman)
Committee of Honour: William Cain, Her Majesty’s Attorney-General for the Isle of Man; Sir Charles Kerruish, Speaker of the House of Keys; Wing-Commander Roy MacDonald, Chairman of the Isle of Man Harbour Board; H. C. Wilkinson, Chairman of Trustees, The Manx Museum.
Secretaries:
Ulla Corkill, Marjorie Caygill
National Representatives:
Denmark:
Iceland:
Ireland:
Norway:
Sweden:
UnitedKingdom:
Delegates of the Congress:
Isle of Man: Robin N. S. Bigland, St. John’s; Frank Cowin, Castletown; Marshall Cubbon, Douglas; Robert Curphey, Castletown; Larch S. Garrad, Douglas; Ann Harrison, Douglas; Margaret Killip, Douglas; Robert Quayle, Douglas.
Britain: Richard N. Bailey, Newcastle upon Tyne; Michael P. Barnes and Kirsten Barnes, London; Alan L. Binns, Hull; Barbara E. Crawford, St. Andrews; Christine E. Fell, Nottingham; Peter G. Foote, London; James Graham-Campbell, London; Richard Hall, York; John Hunter, Bradford; Sean McGrail, London; John McKinnell, Durham; Sue Margeson, Norwich; Basil R. S. Megaw, Edinburgh; Christopher D. Morris, Durham; Raymond Page, Cambridge; Robert B. K. Stevenson, Edinburgh; Robert L. Thomson, Leeds; Ross Trench-Jellicoe, Lancaster; Dominic Tweddle, York; Leslie E. Webster, London; Kirsten Williams, London; David M. Wilson and Eva Wilson, London
Denmark: Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Odense; Olaf Olsen, Copenhagen; Kirsten Bendixen, Copenhagen; Else Roesdahl, Århus; Gillian Fellows Jensen, Copenhagen; Lene Rold, Århus; Jørgen Højgaard Jørgensen, Odense; Preben Meulengracht Sørensen, Odense; Christen Leif Vebaek, Copenhagen.
Faroes: Arne Thorsteinsson and Elisabeth Thorsteinsson, Tórshavn;
Iceland: Bjarni Einarsson and Sigrún Hermannsdóttir, Reykjavík; Gísli Gestsson and Guðrún Sigurðardóttir, Reykjavík; Ólafur Halldórsson and Aðalbjörg V. Karlsdóttir, Hafnarfjörður; Jónas Kristjánsson, Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir and Áslaug Jónasdóttir, Reykjavík; Þór Magnússon and María Heiðdal, Reykjavík; Sveinbjörn Rafnsson, Reykjavík; Jón Steffensen, Reykjavík
Ireland: Bo Almqvist, Dublin; Liam de Paor, Dublin; Maire de Paor, Dublin; Tom Fanning, Galway; Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Cork; Breandán Ó Ríordáin, Dublin
Norway: Per Sveaas Andersen, Oslo; Egil Bakka, Bergen; Charlotte Blindheim, Oslo; Martin Blindheim, Oslo; Reidar Djupedal, Trondheim; Signe Horn Fuglesang, Oslo; Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen, Oslo; Finn Hødnebø, Oslo; Sigrid H. H. Kaaland, Bergen; Aslak Liestøl and Astrid Liestøl, Oslo; Magne Oftedal, Oslo Kolbjørn Skaare, Oslo; Tor Ulset, Oslo
Sweden: Gösta Berg, Stockholm; Lennart Elmevik, Uppsala; Anna Larsson, Uppsala; Folke Ström and Louise Ström, Göteborg; Börje Tjäder, Uppsala.
Excursions:
Sponsors: The Isle of Man government; The British Academy; the Dame Bertha Philpotts Memorial Fund, University of Cambridge; the Dorothea Coke Fund, University College London; the Dorothea Coke Publication fund, University of Cambridge.
Notes:
Congress Diary:
Congress Proceedings:
The Viking Age In The Isle of Man. Select papers from The Ninth Viking Congress, Isle of Man, 4-14 July 1981, edited by Christine Fell, Peter Foote, James Graham-Campbell, Robert Thomson. Viking Society For Northern Research University College London. 1983.
Contents:
|
MARSHALL CUBBON. The archaeology of the Vikings in the Isle of Man. |
13 |
|
THOMAS FANNING. The Hiberno-Norse pins from the Isle of Man. |
27 |
|
GILLIAN FELLOWS-JENSEN.Scandinavian settlement in the Isle of Man and Northwest England: the place-name evidence. |
37 |
|
JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL. The Viking-Age silver hoards of the Isle of Man. |
53 |
|
MARGARET KILLIP.Two aspects of Manx traditional life. |
81 |
|
ASLAK LIESTØL.An Iona rune stone and the world of Man and the Isles. |
85 |
|
SUE MARGESON.On the iconography of the Manx crosses. |
95 |
|
CHRISTOPHER D. MORRIS. The survey and excavations at Keeill Vael, Druidale, in their context. |
107 |
|
R. I. PAGE. The Manx rune-stones. |
133 |
|
PER SVEAAS ANDERSEN. To what extent did tbe balley/balla (baile) names in the Isle of Man supplant place-names of Norse origin? |
147 |
|
R. L. THOMSON. The continuity of Manx. |
169 |
|
DAVID M. WILSON.The art of the Manx crosses of the Viking Age. |
175 |
