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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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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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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 +2 more
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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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Combs, Contact and Chronology : Reconsidering Hair Combs in Early-Historic and Viking-Age Atlantic Scotland [PDF]
, 2009 Analysis of an important collection of bone/antler hair combs from Atlantic Scotland has illuminated the chronology of early-medieval Scandinavian settlement in the region.
Ashby, S.P.
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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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The lost landscape of Borgring
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2022 Geoarchaeological investigations at Borgring, a recently identified Danish Viking Age ring fortress, reconstructs the original landscape showing how the site was expanded and modified to accommodate a structure of pre-defined size and how this large ...
Catherine Jessen +3 more
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Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World [PDF]
, 2013 This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas. This
Arnold, Martin
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