List of Illustrations Preface Felicitas Schmieder: Edges of the World – Edges of Time Gerhard Jaritz: From the Peripheries to the Centres and Back: Visual Culture and the Edges of this World Else Mundal: The Picture of the World in Old Norse Sources Torstein Jørgensen: "The Land of the Norwegians is the Last in the World": A Mid-eleventh-century Description of the Nordic Countries from the Pen of Adam of Bremen Anti Selart: Political Rhetoric and the Edges of Christianity: Livonia and Its Evil Elements in the Fifteenth Century Juhan Kreem: Living on the Edge: Pirates and the Livonians in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Tom Pettitt: Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narrative Judit Sebo: The Margins of One's Small World: The Outskirts of Towns in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Representations Aleksander Pluskowski: What Is Exotic? Sources of Animals and Animal Products from the Edges of the Medieval World Tom Pettitt and Kadri Tüür: The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery Lucie Doležalová, Tibi Silens Laus: Silence at the Edge of Language List of Contributors