Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem
• Rundberget, Bernt
• Pedersen, Unn, 1973-
• Axelsen, Irmelin
• Berg, Heidi Lund

Description

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

Subjects

• Vikings
• Viking antiquities

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-1362

ISBN

• 9781782977278
• 1782977279

LCCN

2014040011

OCLC

900826267

Title

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

Publisher

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.

Edition

Hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Eriksen, Marianne Hem, editor.

Rundberget, Bernt, editor.

Pedersen, Unn, 1973- editor.

Axelsen, Irmelin, editor.

Berg, Heidi Lund, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Viking worlds Hardcover edition. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782977285 (DLC) 2014044172

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1362