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- Gustafsson, Ny Björn
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A Sacred Stone from Björkö's Black Earth : On the Benefits of a Second Examination
- 2008
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - 1782-7183. ; 4, s. 159–168-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Artikeln behandlar en liten slipad marmorsten som återfanns i Svarta jorden på Björkö, Adelsö sn. år 1886 och sedan såldes vidare till Statens historiska museum (inventarienr. SHM 8139:5). Den har tidigare betraktats som recent men här presenteras en tolkning av den som varandes en sepulkralsten - en vital del av ett portabelt altare - vilken skulle kunna knytas till den Kristna missionen i Birka under 800-talets förra del.
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- Holm, Olof, 1973-
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Trading in Viking-Period Scandinavia - a Business Only for a Few? The Jämtland Case
- 2015
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - 1782-7183 .- 2030-9902. ; 11, s. 79-126
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article deals with the question of whether trading in rural areas in Scandinavia during the middle and late Viking period (c. 875‒1050/75) was largely in the hands of elite groups in the society, or if a trading system more open to popular participation prevailed. Jämtland, a region in inland Mid-Scandinavia, is investigated here and constitutes an example of an area with a seemingly open system. On the basis primarily of grave finds, the author shows that many people living in Jämtland participated in buying and selling goods (e.g. furs) to such an extent that they had obtained scales and weights as tools of trade and used weighed silver as a means of payment. This widespread usage of silver as payment had arisen in spite of Jämtland’s remoteness from the major Scandinavian trading centres of the time. Several geographical, cultural, social, and economic factors that might explain this development in Jämtland are discussed.
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- Kitzler Åhfeldt, Laila, 1969-
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Rune carvers and local mobility
- 2016
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In: Viking and medieval Scandinavia. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 1782-7183. ; 11, s. 143-182
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- Lönnroth, Lars, 1935
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"New and Old Interpretations of Njáls Saga"
- 2017
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - 1782-7183 .- 2030-9902. ; 13, s. 101-114
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- En diskussion av äldre och nyare tolkningar av Njals saga med utgångspunkt från ett antal böcker och ariklar från senare år.
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- Malm, Mats, 1964
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Skalds, Runes, and Voice
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In: Viking and Medieval Studies. - 1782-7183. ; :6, s. 135-146
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka, 1969-
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Room for all? Spaces and places for thing assemblies: the case of the All-thing on Gotland, Sweden
- 2008
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 1782-7183 .- 2030-9902. ; 4, s. 133-157
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Roma on Gotland in the Baltic Sea was an important place at the physical and symbolic centre of Iron-Age and Medieval Gotland. Roma has two particularly well-known historical features: the Cistercian monastery and the gathering-place of the Gotlandic all-thing. This article will consider the nature of the place, the foundation of the monastery, and the character of the thing, and will point to an alternative site for the all-thing. It will be suggested that an older Iron-Age cult site came under the control of a chieftain in the later Iron Age, and that in the Viking and early medieval phases a major landowner or chieftain/petty king may have introduced Christianity, established connections with the continental Church, founded a monastery and inaugurated a thing-place in Roma, just as his equals did in other areas of Scandinavia. The monastery and the all-thing have in the past been thought to indicate the existence of a particularly egalitarian and non-stratified society on Gotland in the Viking Age and Middle Ages. I propose that this was not the case. Through historical circumstance, Gotland never developed a noble class as on the mainland; this however does not mean there were not Viking-Age or early medieval lords with such aspirations.
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- Raffield, Benjamin
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Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia
- 2017
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - 1782-7183 .- 2030-9902. ; 13, s. 165-209
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we utilize evolutionary theory, anthropological data, and historical sources to explore how marriage practices shaped social behaviours and attitudes towards gender in Viking-Age Scandinavia. We focus primarily on the normative practices of polygyny and concubinage, which have been shown by anthropological studies to legitimize behaviours that reinforce male power. Our survey found that many of these behaviours might have been prevalent among Viking-Age societies. These include competition among men seeking to gain access to the marriage market, female seclusion, and the bartering of women in marriage contracts. Inside the household, these practices may have precipitated an increased risk of domestic violence, the neglect of children, and the male domination of household decisions. However, we also identify a number of significant ways in which male power was contested and subverted by women’s agency, both within the home and in the context of wider society.
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- Raffield, Benjamin
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The Danelaw reconsidered : colonization and conflict in Viking-Age England
- 2020
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In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. - 1782-7183 .- 2030-9902. ; 16, s. 181-220
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to address long-standing interpretative frameworks for the discussion of the ‘Danelaw’, a term that has been applied since the medieval period to a large area of eastern and northern England that was occupied by viking raiding groups and other immigrant settlers during the ninth and tenth centuries ad. The article highlights several potential issues concerning widely held perceptions of the Danelaw and its main subsidiary element — the ‘Five Boroughs’ — as geopolitical and cultural entities. On the basis of a lack of historical and archaeological evidence for coordinated territorial defence and cooperation between the groups occupying the landscape, the study calls the concepts of the Danelaw and Five Boroughs into question. I argue that a shift in scholarly focus to more local and regional processes of consolidation and social development would provide fresh insights into political and military organization in Viking-Age England, while also shedding light on processes of violence, colonization, and creolization as these played out across the settled landscape.
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