The Eastern World of the Vikings: Eight Essays about Scandinavia and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

By E. A. Melnikova, Lamberg Professor in Humanities at Göteborgs Universitet for 1995.
It is a pleasure and a privilege to be able to inaugurate our series with this collection of essays by Elena Melnikova from the Department of Early Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Professor Melnikova is not only one of the world’s leading experts on Old Norse geography and on Russian-Scandinavian relations in the Viking Age, but is also a truly interdisciplinary historian who knows how to combine data from many different fields, including Old Norse and Russian literature intellectual history, folklore, runeology, numismatics, and archaeology in order to achieve new and surprising results.