Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early Middle Ages at the BritishMuseum and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Anyone interested in studying history comparatively will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone interested in identities and in forms of medieval historical writing.

• Introduction: The Problem of a Viking IdentityGenealogy: Building a Viking Age DynastyOrigin Myths: A People for a DynastyHagiography I: Ruin and RestorationHagiography II: Saintly PatronageCharter Narratives: Normans, Northumbrians and NorthmenConclusion: Viking Age Narratives and Ethnic IdentitiesAppendix 1: The Date of Fulbert's Vita RomaniAppendix 2: The Dates of the Latin Vita Prima Sancti Neoti and the Old English Life of St NeotBibliography

Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early Middle Ages at the BritishMuseum and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Anyone interested in studying history comparatively will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone interested in identities and in forms of medieval historical writing.

• Introduction: The Problem of a Viking IdentityGenealogy: Building a Viking Age DynastyOrigin Myths: A People for a DynastyHagiography I: Ruin and RestorationHagiography II: Saintly PatronageCharter Narratives: Normans, Northumbrians and NorthmenConclusion: Viking Age Narratives and Ethnic IdentitiesAppendix 1: The Date of Fulbert's Vita RomaniAppendix 2: The Dates of the Latin Vita Prima Sancti Neoti and the Old English Life of St NeotBibliography

Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early Middle Ages at the BritishMuseum and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Anyone interested in studying history comparatively will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone interested in identities and in forms of medieval historical writing.

• Introduction: The Problem of a Viking IdentityGenealogy: Building a Viking Age DynastyOrigin Myths: A People for a DynastyHagiography I: Ruin and RestorationHagiography II: Saintly PatronageCharter Narratives: Normans, Northumbrians and NorthmenConclusion: Viking Age Narratives and Ethnic IdentitiesAppendix 1: The Date of Fulbert's Vita RomaniAppendix 2: The Dates of the Latin Vita Prima Sancti Neoti and the Old English Life of St NeotBibliography