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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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Burial Layout, Society and Sacred Geography - A Viking Age Example from Jämtland

Current Swedish Archaeology, 1997
ln the Viking Age cotnmunity in the Lake Storsjön district in central Jämtland the landscape, the society and the religion formed a conceptual totality.
Mikael Jakobsson
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Network analysis of the Viking Age in Ireland as portrayed in Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2018
Yose J, Kenna R, MacCarron M, MacCarron P.   +3 more
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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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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
Collard, Mark, Price, Neil, Raffield, Ben   +2 more
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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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Insular artefacts from Viking-Age burials from mid-Norway. A review of contact between Trøndelag and Britain and Ireland

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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Early watermills

Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2017
The introduction of watermills in Southern Scandinavia has often been linked to the advent of the Cistercian Order and regarded a kick-starter for the so-called medieval revolution.
Mads Dengsø Jessen
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Stable isotopes, chronology and Bayesian models for the Viking archaeology of north-east Iceland [PDF]

, 2017
This paper reviews the results of a long-term research project that used stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) and Bayesian mixing models to better model the chronology for a presumed Viking Age cemetery at Hofstaðir, near Lake Mývatn in north-east ...
Hamilton, W. Derek, Sayle, Kerry L.
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The Vikings, victims of their own success?

Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2015
The Viking age as a time of adventures and violence never ceases to fascinate the public. Both aspects remain central to the definitions of the period which can be found in recent introductions to the topic.
Sarah Croix
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