Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period.

LENA HOLMQUIST OLAUSSON Archaeological Research Lab., Stockholm Location and Distribution of Settlements in the Proto-town of Birka in Lake Malaren BENTE MAGNUS Stockholm Museum Dwellings and Settlements, Structure and Characteristics E. VESTERGAARD Danish Institute, Arhus Kinship and Marriage: The Family, its Relationships and its Renewal in Early Scandinavian Epics BIRGIT ARRHENIUS Archaeological Research Lab., Stockholm Kinship and Social Relations in the Early Medieval Period in Svealand Elucidated by DNA STEFAN BRINK Uppsala University Law and Legal Customs in Viking-Age Scandinavia LISE BENDER JORGENSEN Inst. Of Archaeology, Trondheim Rural Economy: Ecology, Hunting, Pastoralism, Agricultural and Nutritional Aspects SVEND NIELSEN National Museum, Copenhagen The Urban Economy: South Scandinavia during the Second Half of the First Millennium AD FRANDS HERSCHEND Uppsala University Political Structures in the Sixth to Tenth Century NIELS LUND University of Copenhagen Harald Bluetooth: A Saint Very Nearly Made by Adam of Bremen DAVID N. DUMVILLE Girton College, Cambridge Vikings in the British Isles: A Question of Sources JUDITH JESCH University of Nottingham Eagles, Ravens and Wolves: Beasts of Battle, Symbols of Victory and Death DENNIS H GREEN Trinity College, Cambridge The 'Ludwigslied' and the Battle of Saucourt