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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Viking Age"”.
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Grímr-Visaged War: Viking Age Battle, With an Eye to Performance
… by casting battle in the late Scandinavian Iron Age and medieval period in terms of a performance process. The community analyzed is the hall-based warrior elite that developed throughout the Viking Age. By approaching the material from the performance perspective rather than warrior identity or …
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Manifestations of identity in burial: evidence from Viking-Age graves in the North Atlantic diaspora
In the early Middle Ages, when settlers began to leave Scandinavia to find new homes for themselves and their families, they began a process that impacted their lives dramatically. Research on modern population movements has demonstrated that migration-induced stresses change the lives of …
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The Other Body: Persons in Viking Age Multiple Burials in Scandinavia and the Western Diaspora
… within a grave— are a common feature of the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of the Western Diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of professionals and the public alike, multiple burials have not been the subject …
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Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður
… focuses on the zooarchaeology of four Viking Age sites on Hegranes, located in Skagafjörður, north Iceland, in order to understand the early economy of the region and place it in a broader context with other settlement sites across the island. This research helps to understand the ways …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… many other animal species. This is also true for Viking Age burial customs, where different types of animals were commonly killed to be placed in human graves. Acknowledging this asymmetry, however, does not imply that animals were - and should be considered - passive and inanimate props …
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The Regional Communities of Viking Age Norway and their Contribution to Socio-Political Dynamics, c. 900 - 1050
… in Scandinavia in the last 150 years of the Viking Age has long been preoccupied with the formation of the medieval precursors to Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Focusing on the geographical area encompassed by modern Norway, this thesis looks beyond the received narrative of state formation by …
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Prospecting the physicochemical past. Three dimensional geochemical investigation into the use of space in Viking Age sites in southern Norway using portable XRF.
… and horizontal sampling strategies on three Viking Age sites in southern Norway in order to investigate archaeological geochemistry as a method of better understanding spatial and temporal variation in occupation deposits. Archaeological deposits are often truncated, redeposited or otherwise …
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"Few know an earl in fishing clothes": Fish middens and the economy of the viking age and late norse earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, Northern Scotland
… studies the origin and role of wealth in the Viking Age (late 8th to 11th century) and Late Norse (11th to 15th century) earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, northern Scotland. It has four aims. Firstly, it attempts to elucidate the key sources of wealth in the earldoms and, more specifically, …
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Houses and households in early Icelandic society: geoarchaeology and the interpretation of social space
… the course of its first 200 year,s. It examines Viking Age residential architecture in Iceland at new levels of detail and with new methods, including geoarchaeological techniques to enhance the interpretation of activity areas in individual buildings, and space syntax analysis to facilitate the …
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The Scandinavian settlement of Northern Shetland: Northmavine, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar
… population almost disappeared. The research agenda of this multidisciplinary research was to investigate all the aspects of the Scandinavian settlement in Northmavine, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar: the extent and nature of the occupation, the reasons for the settlement pattern, whether the area …
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Explaining Viking expansion
… but a cursory glance at the factors involved in Viking expansion. This thesis studies and explains employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian migration, conquest, and adventure from the eighth through the eleventh …
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature
… highly conventional in the skaldic poetry of the Viking Age and beyond. However, the link between the composition of verse and the construction of material objects was regarded as a topic of particular importance by Scandinavian poets such as Egill. In fact, connections between poets, craftsmen, …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
… through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight into how a new political identity was rendered necessary by the Anglo-Irish. Victor Turner’s model of <em>Communitas </em>structures the argument as each stage of liminality represents a turning …
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Forge of Myths and Legends
Forge of Myths and Legends is a coming-of-age novel that explores identity, diplomacy, justice, liberation, and acceptance while pushing against the historical narrative of imperial conquest and supremacy, elevating the untold stories of myths and legends during the medieval Viking Age. The story …
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Craft activity and settlement in early medieval Ireland in the fifth to twelfth centuries AD: chronology and society
… the period, namely the appearance of burgeoning Viking-age towns in the tenth century AD, was a pivotal moment of change in early medieval rural craft industry. Based on the findings, it argues that the defining moment was instead almost 200 years before the establishment of urbanism, and by …
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How the Vikings inhabited Scotland: a social zooarchaeological approach
… growing area of research, and with regard to the Viking Age the majority of this research has concerned the Scandinavian homelands. Scotland has been recognised as important in the widespread migration of the Vikings, yet subject to little theoretical enquiry. This thesis represents the first …
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… structures of society and lordship in the Middle Ages in South Uist through historical documentation, oral-tradition, cultural landscapes, monuments and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The historical evidence is …
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
… Icelanders contemplated the peoples their Viking Age ancestors encountered around the world, they drew on classical ideas of the barbarian to complement the mix of oral tradition, literary inspiration and contemporary circumstance that otherwise form the Íslendingasögur.
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Theme and variations: Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland
… matter of the thesis is to isolate some of the agents of cohesion to see was this homogenous or did it vary in different areas. One of these agents was the ownership of land and the thesis undertakes to identify ecclesiastical landholding and examine the manner of settlement on it. A corollary …
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