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

This book provides a nuanced reading of how tenth- and eleventh-century societies understood the impact of Viking settlement in England and Normandy and is a must-read for any student of identity and history-writing in these contexts.

• Introduction: The Problem of 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.

This book provides a nuanced reading of how tenth- and eleventh-century societies understood the impact of Viking settlement in England and Normandy and is a must-read for any student of identity and history-writing in these contexts.

• Introduction: The Problem of 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.

This book provides a nuanced reading of how tenth- and eleventh-century societies understood the impact of Viking settlement in England and Normandy and is a must-read for any student of identity and history-writing in these contexts.

• Introduction: The Problem of 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