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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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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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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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Revista de História, 2003 BYOCK, Jesse. Viking Age Iceland. London, Penguin Books, 2001.
Johnni Langer
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Viking, 2020 Bokanmeldelse av Marianne Hem Eriksens bok, Architecture, Society and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space.
John Ljungkvist
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Viking, 2018 Book review, Zanette T. Glørstad and Kjetil Loftsgarden (eds.): Viking-Age Transformations: Trade, Craft and Resources in Western ...
James Graham-Campbell
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Gjellestad – a loser in Viking-Age Viken? [PDF]
VikingThis article discusses the political and economic development of Gjellestad during the Viking Age. The site is analysed in relation to trade and power networks in a local, regional and a wider, Scandinavian and European context.
Bjørn Bandlien
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Experiments on Painting Viking Age Woodwork
EXARC JournalTraditionally, studies on Viking Age pigmentation have focused on the minerals used to produce colours. The research conducted in this article concerns other factors, that might have influenced painted wood such as surface treatments, outlines, and paint
Nanna Friis Hellström +3 more
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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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