The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Indeed, the Old Norse literature also throws some light on certain essential com- ponents of ‘powerful’ places. For example, the ...

with the Sámi population, which in turn are manifested through the impact on the Norse religion in the late Iron Age (Price 2002 ...

eighth centuries, as were the royal centres at Borre and (Gamla) Uppsala. Whether the written evidence contains a core of histor ...

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CHAPTER TWO LAW AND SOCIETY Polities and legal customs in Viking Scandinavia Stefan Brink EARLY POLITIES AND PREHISTORIC PROVINC ...

Scandinavia had a similar situation to the one found for example in early Anglo-Saxon England and early Ireland, with small king ...

Ages, who based their law codes on Continental judicial patterns? In the nineteenth century and more or less up to the middle of ...

Thorgny. Behind the chair and around in a circle stood the peasant congregation.’ After a persuasive speech by Thorgny that appe ...

sites are known from runestones and place names in Sweden (see Brink 2003 a, b, 2004 ). It is also possible to reconstruct þing ...

knowledge as the basis for the new product, and the transferring of laws to other regions, as in the case of the Hälsinge Law, w ...

One ox and two aura [in fine] [to ?] staf [or] aura staf [in fine] for the restoration of a cult site (vi) in a valid state for ...

Egil’s saga, trans. with an intro. by H. Pálsson and P. Edwards, Harmondsworth: Penguin 1976. Fenger, O. ( 1971 ) Fejde og mande ...

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CHAPTER THREE THE SÁMI AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE NORDIC PEOPLES Inger Zachrisson D uring the Viking Age a large part of the ...

Figure 3. 1 A schematic picture of Sámi culture (vertical lines) and Nordic culture (horizontal lines), c. ad 1000 (after Zachri ...

The Old Norse sources show that the Sámi were a natural part of Norwegian society; the two peoples lived in a kind of symbiosis. ...

which was differentiated: ‘Each pays according to his rank. The highest in rank has to pay fifteen marten skins, five reindeer s ...