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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eriksen, Marianne Hem, editor.

Rundblad, Bengt G., 1925- editor.

Pedersen, Unn, 1973- editor.

Axelsen, Irmelin, editor.

Berg, Heidi Lund, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vikings.

Viking antiquities.

Physical Description:

ix, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Viking worlds

ISBN:

9781782977278

1782977279

OCLC:

894816395