The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

The Sámi had a symbolic power in their magic, for which the Norsemen had great respect. Sámi figure as healers, advisers and mas ...

from the Finnish language. The South Sámi word for ‘snare’ is giele, but also snaarroe, a word taken over from Nordic. It shows ...

Thus, during the Viking Age the interaction between Sámi and Nordic peoples was intensified, especially in central Scandinavia. ...

Scandinavia’, in M. Appelt, J. Berglund and H.Ch. Gulløv (eds) Identities and Cultural Contacts in the Arctic (Danish Polar Cent ...

CHAPTER FOUR WOMEN AND SEXUAL POLITICS Auður G. Magnúsdóttir O ne late summer evening in 1238 , the prominent politician and wri ...

to the historical context. In the Middle Ages blood ties weren’t necessarily the strongest bonds between people. Similarly the p ...

striking disparity between the two genres’ ‘social reality’ interesting. Can this disparity be the key to a society going under ...

MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL POLITICS When the time had come for Snorri Sturluson to marry, his mother had spent the inheritance he shoul ...

as the actors in many cases had the same social standing but an incompatible political position. This, together with the kinship ...

Europe. The loyalty caused by the nature of the bond characterises concubinage in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland. As in ...

the concubine thereby also advanced politically. Furthermore, it is interesting to discuss the possibilities of women independen ...

Ósvífursdóttir, the image of the strong Viking woman. Furthermore, Laxdæla saga can be said to be the only saga in which a woman ...

Duby, G. ( 1985 ) The Knight, the Lady and the Priest. The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, Harmondsworth: Penguin. ...

CHAPTER FIVE SLAVERY IN THE VIKING AGE Stefan Brink E arly Scandinavian society was more or less until the 1960 s looked upon as ...

archaeology, onomastics, and especially the semantic and etymological analysis of slave terminology are vital (Lindkvist and Myr ...

there are scholars who even today are prepared, at least tentatively, to place the Rígsþula as early as the Viking Age (Meulengr ...

watched over the goats, dug the peat. The daughters were Stumpy and Dumpy, Bulgingcalves and Eaglenose, Shouter and Servingmaid ...

female slave is believed to be a loan from Vulgar Lat. ambactus ‘servant’ (cf. Sw ämbete). Other names for female slaves were de ...

manager on the royal farm Hovgården. This runic evidence indicates that a bryti in the tenth and eleventh centuries was to be fo ...

be found on chieftains’ and well-to-do farmers’ farms. This could be reflected in some ‘double graves’, found in Denmark and Swe ...