Viking worlds : things, spaces and movement / edited by Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen, Heidi Lund Berg.

Based on papers presented at the international conference "Viking Worlds," held at the University of Oslo in March 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

From Ginnungagap to the Ragnarök: archaeologies of the Viking worlds / Neil Price -- Part I. Real and ideal spaces -- Powerful space: the iron-age hall and its development during the Viking age / Lydia Carstens -- Húsdrápa: a Skaldic poem in context / Joanne Shortt Butler -- Courtyard sites in western Norway: central assembly places and judicial institutions in the late iron age / Asle Bruen Olsen -- Place names and settlement development around an aristocratic residence: thoughts from an on-going study of the hinterland of Tissø / Sofie Laurine Albris -- The powerful ring: door rings, oath rings and the sacral place / Marianne Hem Eriksen -- Part II. Gendered things, gendered spaces? -- She came from another place: on the burial of a young girl in Birka / Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson -- Roles and perceptions of shielings and the mediation of gender identities in Viking and medieval Iceland / Patrycja Kupiec and Karen Milek -- "Truth" and reproduction of knowledge: critical thoughts on the interpretation and understanding of iron-age keys / Heidi Lund Berg -- Part II. Production, exchange and movement -- Manors and markets: continental perspectives on Viking-age trade and exchange / Bjarne Gaut -- Making the cloth that binds us: the role of textile production in producing Viking-age identities / Ben Cartwright -- Leadworking in Viking-age Norway / Unn Pedersen -- Isotopic analysis of silver from Hedeby and some nearby hoards: preliminary results / Stephen Merkel, Andreas Hauptmann, Volker Hilberg and Robert Lehmann -- Vikings in Poland: a critical overview / Leszek Gardela.

Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialised methodologies and/or empirical studies, place-name research, the history of religion and technological advancements, such as isotope analysis. Together these generate new insights into the technology, social organisation and mentality of the worlds of the Vikings. Geographically, c.

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