Bibliography
Nelleke L. (Nelleke Laure)
IJssennagger s. xx–xxi
Works edited
Hines, John, and Nelleke L. IJssennagger (eds), Frisians and their North Sea neighbours from the fifth century to the Viking Age, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017.
abstract:
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These were apparently Celtic-speaking peoples, but that population was probably completely replaced in the course of the convulsions that Europe underwent during the fourth and fifth centuries. While the importance of linguistically Germanic Frisians as neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West is widely recognized, these folk themselves remain enigmatic, the details of their culture and organization unfamiliar to many.
The Frisian population and their lands, including all the coastal communities of the North sea region and their connections with the Baltic shores, form the focal point of this volume, though viewed often through comparison with, or even through the eyes of, their neighbours. The essays present the most up-to-date discoveries, research and interpretation, combining and integrating linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence; they follow the story of the various Frisians through from the Roman Period to the next great period of disruption and change introduced by the Viking Scandinavians.
abstract:
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These were apparently Celtic-speaking peoples, but that population was probably completely replaced in the course of the convulsions that Europe underwent during the fourth and fifth centuries. While the importance of linguistically Germanic Frisians as neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West is widely recognized, these folk themselves remain enigmatic, the details of their culture and organization unfamiliar to many.
The Frisian population and their lands, including all the coastal communities of the North sea region and their connections with the Baltic shores, form the focal point of this volume, though viewed often through comparison with, or even through the eyes of, their neighbours. The essays present the most up-to-date discoveries, research and interpretation, combining and integrating linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence; they follow the story of the various Frisians through from the Roman Period to the next great period of disruption and change introduced by the Viking Scandinavians.
Contributions to journals
IJssennagger, Nelleke L., “A Viking find from the Isle of Texel (Netherlands) and its implications”, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 11 (2015): 127–142.
abstract:
Early in 2015 a fragment of a silver, Hiberno-Scandinavian broad-band arm-ring was found on the island of Texel, in former Frisia. It is the first find of this type in the Netherlands. A dirham was uncovered at almost the same find-spot a few years earlier. The find may thus possibly be seen as part of a small hack-silver assemblage or hoard, dispersed through ploughing. Although still very few and far between, Viking finds by detectorists have been increasing in the Netherlands, particularly in former Frisia. The Texel find can be seen in the light of these finds. As a Hiberno-Scandinavian type of object, it relates to the Irish Viking kingdom and possibly to the activities of the Great Heathen Army, to which the Frisian coastal area in some way seems connected.
abstract:
Early in 2015 a fragment of a silver, Hiberno-Scandinavian broad-band arm-ring was found on the island of Texel, in former Frisia. It is the first find of this type in the Netherlands. A dirham was uncovered at almost the same find-spot a few years earlier. The find may thus possibly be seen as part of a small hack-silver assemblage or hoard, dispersed through ploughing. Although still very few and far between, Viking finds by detectorists have been increasing in the Netherlands, particularly in former Frisia. The Texel find can be seen in the light of these finds. As a Hiberno-Scandinavian type of object, it relates to the Irish Viking kingdom and possibly to the activities of the Great Heathen Army, to which the Frisian coastal area in some way seems connected.
Nelleke L. IJssennagger, “‘Keltische’ objecten langs de Friese kust?’”, in: Kelten: Mededelingen van de Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies 62 (2014): 8–11.
