SA4/2324 - Papa Stour and 1299. Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Shetland's first document

Contents:

Paul Bibire, 'Transcription and translation of the 1299 Shetland document'

Barbara E. Crawford, 'The historical and archaeological background to the Papa Stour project'

Brian Smith, 'The 1299 letter about Papa Stour: a note'

Knut Helle, 'Thorvald Thoresson and the political and administrative circumstances in Norway in 1299'

Steinar Imsen, 'Tingwall and local community power in Shetland during the reign of Håkon Magnusson, duke and king'

Ingvild Øye, 'Ragnhild Simonsdatter and women's social and economic position in Norse society'

Beverley Ballin Smith, 'Excavations at the Biggins, Papa Stour: the archaeological evidence' [Biggings]

Steffen Stummann Hansen, 'Scandinavian building customs - the Faroese case and its North Atlantic context'

Håkon Christie, 'The stofa in Nordic building tradition'

Bjarne Stoklund, 'The riddle of the stock-stove houses: an attempt at an explanation'

Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, 'Ethnic aspects of the settlement of Iceland'

Barbara E. Crawford, 'Afterword';

Frans-Arne Stylegar, 'Thorvald Thoresson, Sigrid Olaf's-daughter and the SW Norwegian connection: an alternative interpretation of the 1292 document from Kvinesdal'