The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

CONTENTS

List of illustrations xi

List of contributors xv

Preface xix

Stefan Brink and Neil Price

Abbreviations xxi

Introduction 1

Stefan Brink

Who were the Vikings? 4

Stefan Brink

PART I: VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA

People, society and social institutions

1 Scandinavia before the Viking Age 11
Lotte Hedeager

2 Law and society: polities and legal customs in Viking Scandinavia 23
Stefan Brink

3 The Sámi and their interaction with the Nordic peoples 32
Inger Zachrisson

4 Women and sexual politics 40
Auður G. Magnúsdóttir

5 Slavery in the Viking Age 49
Stefan Brink

Living space

6 Naming the land 57
Stefan Brink

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