Viking worlds : things, spaces and movement /
Viking worlds : things, spaces and movement /
edited by Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen, Heidi Lund Berg.
- Hardcover edition.
- Oxford : Oxbow Books, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource
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 / Part I. Real and ideal spaces -- Powerful space: the iron-age hall and its development during the Viking age / Húsdrápa: a Skaldic poem in context / Courtyard sites in western Norway: central assembly places and judicial institutions in the late iron age / Place names and settlement development around an aristocratic residence: thoughts from an on-going study of the hinterland of Tissø / The powerful ring: door rings, oath rings and the sacral place / Part II. Gendered things, gendered spaces? -- She came from another place: on the burial of a young girl in Birka / Roles and perceptions of shielings and the mediation of gender identities in Viking and medieval Iceland / "Truth" and reproduction of knowledge: critical thoughts on the interpretation and understanding of iron-age keys / Part II. Production, exchange and movement -- Manors and markets: continental perspectives on Viking-age trade and exchange / Making the cloth that binds us: the role of textile production in producing Viking-age identities / Leadworking in Viking-age Norway / Isotopic analysis of silver from Hedeby and some nearby hoards: preliminary results / Vikings in Poland: a critical overview / Neil Price -- Lydia Carstens -- Joanne Shortt Butler -- Asle Bruen Olsen -- Sofie Laurine Albris -- Marianne Hem Eriksen -- Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson -- Patrycja Kupiec and Karen Milek -- Heidi Lund Berg -- Bjarne Gaut -- Ben Cartwright -- Unn Pedersen -- Stephen Merkel, Andreas Hauptmann, Volker Hilberg and Robert Lehmann -- 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.
9781782977308
2014044172
Vikings.
Viking antiquities.
Electronic Books.
DL65 / .V555 2014
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 / Part I. Real and ideal spaces -- Powerful space: the iron-age hall and its development during the Viking age / Húsdrápa: a Skaldic poem in context / Courtyard sites in western Norway: central assembly places and judicial institutions in the late iron age / Place names and settlement development around an aristocratic residence: thoughts from an on-going study of the hinterland of Tissø / The powerful ring: door rings, oath rings and the sacral place / Part II. Gendered things, gendered spaces? -- She came from another place: on the burial of a young girl in Birka / Roles and perceptions of shielings and the mediation of gender identities in Viking and medieval Iceland / "Truth" and reproduction of knowledge: critical thoughts on the interpretation and understanding of iron-age keys / Part II. Production, exchange and movement -- Manors and markets: continental perspectives on Viking-age trade and exchange / Making the cloth that binds us: the role of textile production in producing Viking-age identities / Leadworking in Viking-age Norway / Isotopic analysis of silver from Hedeby and some nearby hoards: preliminary results / Vikings in Poland: a critical overview / Neil Price -- Lydia Carstens -- Joanne Shortt Butler -- Asle Bruen Olsen -- Sofie Laurine Albris -- Marianne Hem Eriksen -- Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson -- Patrycja Kupiec and Karen Milek -- Heidi Lund Berg -- Bjarne Gaut -- Ben Cartwright -- Unn Pedersen -- Stephen Merkel, Andreas Hauptmann, Volker Hilberg and Robert Lehmann -- 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.
9781782977308
2014044172
Vikings.
Viking antiquities.
Electronic Books.
DL65 / .V555 2014