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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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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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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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Revista de História, 2003 BYOCK, Jesse. Viking Age Iceland. London, Penguin Books, 2001.
Johnni Langer
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Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2023 In the last 25 years a conspicuous amount of plane glass – windowpane fragments – has surfaced on archaeological sites from the Viking Age. These finds have not received scholarly attention as they are not recognised as a genuine prehistoric (i.e.
Torben Sode +2 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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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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Revisiting the ‘Valkyries’: Armed Females in Viking Age Figurative Metalwork
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2022 This paper offers an in-depth exploration of a group of small Viking Age figurines commonly referred to as ‘valkyries’ in Viking and Old Norse scholarship.
Leszek Gardela, Peter Pentz, Neil Price
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A quest for the atgeir: the unknown Viking weapon in Icelandic sagas and archaeological data
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Today we know much about the culture of the Viking Age, but there are still gaps to fill. One of them is what the legendary weapon called atgeirr in Icelandic sagas really was. Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear.
Shtyryakova Yulia
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