An interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations, Tables and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence Irish

Chapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between Disciplines

Chapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland’s Hebridean Islands

Chapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland

Chapter Five: Dating the Cave

Chapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental Change

Chapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place?

To Conclude

References

Kristján Ahronson is Lecturer in Archaeology at Prifysgol Bangor University in Wales.