Alan Macniven is a lecturer in the department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is responsible for honours and postgraduate courses in Viking Studies, Old Norse Studies, and the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Scotland, and has organised a number of conferences and seminars on similar themes. His research to date has focused on Scandinavian place-names in Scotland and their value as indicators of cultural change.

'Masterly analysis . . . crystallised by the author’s total command of the local place-nomenclature and his understanding of the Gaelic-Norse circumstances . . . it is hugely significant for future studies of the totality of the Viking impact on Scotland'

Alan Macniven is a lecturer in the department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is responsible for honours and postgraduate courses in Viking Studies, Old Norse Studies, and the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Scotland, and has organised a number of conferences and seminars on similar themes. His research to date has focused on Scandinavian place-names in Scotland and their value as indicators of cultural change.

'Masterly analysis . . . crystallised by the author’s total command of the local place-nomenclature and his understanding of the Gaelic-Norse circumstances . . . it is hugely significant for future studies of the totality of the Viking impact on Scotland'

Alan Macniven is a lecturer in the department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is responsible for honours and postgraduate courses in Viking Studies, Old Norse Studies, and the Material Culture of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Scotland, and has organised a number of conferences and seminars on similar themes. His research to date has focused on Scandinavian place-names in Scotland and their value as indicators of cultural change.

'Masterly analysis . . . crystallised by the author’s total command of the local place-nomenclature and his understanding of the Gaelic-Norse circumstances . . . it is hugely significant for future studies of the totality of the Viking impact on Scotland'