The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards

• This study suggests a predominantly socially-strategic function of the silver found in Viking Age hoards, more specifically, connected to the realm of customary law and the blood feud as a social institution. This suggestion is based on a quantitative and contextual analysis of the Íslendingasögur, and a comparison between the function of silver in the sagas and the composition and context of the hoards.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Spillings

Hoards

Silver

Customary law

Viking Age

Íslendingasögur

Early Medieval Archaeology

Family Sagas

Old Norse

Viking Studies

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