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Multi-isotope variation reveals social complexity in Viking Age Norway [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary: Multi-isotope studies from human remains from Viking Age graves throughout Norway allow for a deeper understanding of mobility, livelihood, and social organization during the Viking Age (750–1050 CE).
Lisa Mariann Strand +2 more
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Internet Archaeology, 2016 A study of hair in the Viking Age. The article draws on medieval Icelandic and Scandinavian texts for interpretation. Further information is taken from pictoral representations of viking hair styles and decoration, hairdressing artefacts, figurines and ...
Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
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Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Fur is known from contemporary written sources to have been a key commodity in the Viking Age. Nevertheless, the fur trade has been notoriously difficult to study archaeologically as fur rarely survives in the archaeological record. In Denmark, fur finds
Luise Ørsted Brandt +8 more
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Archaic Martial Traditions in High Medieval Scandinavia: A Glimpse of Viking Age Warfare?
Viking, 2021 Most written evidence regarding warfare in Viking Age Scandinavia originates either from contemporaneous chronicles – recorded by those at the receiving end of Norse attacks – from skaldic poetry, or from high medieval Scandinavian texts.
Beñat Elortza Larrea
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Religion in the Viking Age Moral Economy
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : On those rare occasions when Old Norse religion and morality are set alongside one another, the notion of a non-Christian morality is typically dismissed or Old Norse religion is viewed as actively holding back moral progress.
Declan Taggart
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Bones of the Earth: Imitation as Meaning in Viking Age Burial Ritual
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2005 From excavation results of a pre-Roman Iron Age and Viking Age burialground in Västergötland, an example is presented ofhow religious meaning became projected into Viking Age burial ritual through imitation of an already then ancient custom.
Tore Artelius, Mats Lindqvist
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A critical assessment of the evidence for selective female infanticide as a cause of the Viking Age
Groundings, 2018 There currently exists in the study of Viking archaeology a strong support for the theory, popularised by Barrett (2015), that selective female infanticide in the Late Scandinavian Iron Age to Early Viking Age resulted in the sudden expansion of ...
Edward Stewart
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THE BATTLE OF FYRISVELLIR AS DUALISTIC "CORNERSTONE" OF SWEDISH AND DANISH HISTORIOGRAPHY
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The Battle of Fyrisvellir (also known as the "Battle of Firisvallarna") is a significant event in early Swedish history, the battle between the king Eric and the candidate for the throne of Svealand Styrbjorn Strong.
A. Saenko
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Internet Archaeology, 2014 This article presents a detailed overview of the Insular artefacts found in Viking-Age burials from the Trøndelag region of mid-Norway, most of which have not previously been published in English.
Aina Margrethe Heen-Pettersen
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A Burial of the ‘Viking Age’ in Skye [PDF]
Archaeological Journal, 1920 The Archaeological Journal, 77, 135 ...
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