The A to Z of the Vikings 5. This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the impact the Vikings had on the areas where they traveled and settled. There is a chronological table, detailed and annotated bibliographies for different themes and geographical locations, and an introduction discussing the major events and developments of the Viking age | 18 ADAM OF BREMEN d. c. 1085 Blue-Tooth who married an Abodrite princess Tove the daughter of Harald s ally Mistivoi the daughter of Svein Estrithsson was married to the chieftain Gottschalk who was himself descended from Mistivoi Gottschalk s great-grandfather and Svein Forkbeard Gottschalk s grandfather . ADAM OF BREMEN d. c. 1085 . The German cleric Adam of Bremen is most famous for his History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen written between around 1072 and 1075. In his prologue Adam tells us that he came to Bremen as a proselyte and a stranger in 1066-1067 at the request of Archbishop Adalbart but otherwise very little is known about Adam s background and life. Indeed his full name is supplied from a later chronicler Helmold as Adam refers to himself as A. the least of the canons of the holy Church at Bremen. As well as being made a canon of the cathedral chapter at Bremen he may have been the Adam magister scolarum in charge of its school in 1069. Scribal annotations later made to the fourth book of Adam s history state that their author probably Adam was from upper Germany and their date suggests that he lived into the 1080s. While Adam of Bremen seems to have made a brief trip to Denmark where he met the Danish king Svein Estrithsson there is no evidence that he ever visited Sweden or Norway. ADMINISTRATION OF THE EMPIRE Latin De Administrando Imperio . A work of guidance compiled by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos for his son Rhomanós II between 948 and c. 952. The book consists of some 53 chapters on the geography of the Byzantine Empire s neighbors and on the empire s relations with those countries in the mid-10th century. The original has no title just the dedication to Rhomanós II. The Administration of the Empire is a collection of files rather than a coherent composition and although some attempt has been made to order the files into logical groupings this was not fully realized. It has been suggested that Constantine may .
