Re: Art history

No doubt vikings  were influenced by what they saw along the three
main routes
-the Atlantic to Mediterranian
- Baltic Sea-Volga river to orient
-Ireland-Island-Greenland-New Foundland.

The religious influence of Orthodox must have been minimal.
The churches were catholic, I have seen any mentions about
orthodox vikings within their proper area. Only few converts
who had settled in colonies in Russia.

The Celtic influence is interesting. I wonder which way it was.
Up to 1044 British Islands were settled by vikings.
Dublin was a Viking town.

What do we know about celtic art say before 800 aC.

-lauri

"Erik A. Mattila" wrote:

> Paul Mesken wrote:
> > On 1 Dec 2003 15:17:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clyde S. Dale)
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >>
> >>
> >>>But now I'm trying to remember if the Norwegian Stave Churches were part
> >>>of the Greek Orthodox influence?
> >>
> >>I thought the influence was Celtic?
> >>Now I did it - and have to go look up
> >>who the Celts were influenced by. Groan!
> >
> >
> > Were the Vikings Celts? I thought only the Irish and some of the
> > British were Celtic. At least their religions are different (Mother
> > Godess Dana vs Odin/Wotan).
> >
> > Of course if we're talking Stave Churches then we're already past the
> > Germanic Gods (the Vikings were easy to convert, they believed the
> > more Gods you worshipped, the better :-)
> >
> > But they did travel a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if they were
> > influenced by the Greeks.
>
> Well yes - Harald Hardrade himself hung out in Constantinople for 14
> years around ad 1030 or so, and married Jarislov the Wise's daughter in
> a Orthodox ceremony in Kiev.  But I asked the question because I
> wondered if iconoclasm was behind the Stave Church carving style, and
> now I think it's not.  The two iconoclast periods were 730 and 815, a
> bit early for the Stave Churches.
>
> >
> >