Icelanders In The Viking Age

Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786447275

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Icelanders in the Viking Age by William R. Short Pdf

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.

Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0786456078

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Icelanders in the Viking Age by William R. Short Pdf

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.

Author : Jesse L Byock
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141937656

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Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L Byock Pdf

Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663015

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The Viking Immigrants by Laurie K Bertram Pdf

A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

Author : Ari Thorgilsson Frodi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Iceland
ISBN : OCLC:5929008

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Islendingabok by Ari Thorgilsson Frodi Pdf

Author : Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487570491

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The Viking Age by Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald Pdf

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.

Author : James Reston, Jr.
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385483360

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The Last Apocalypse by James Reston, Jr. Pdf

Accomplished historical author James Reston, Jr., presents the enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance in Europe as the year 1000 approached. Through Reston's brilliant narrative and engaging portraits of the unforgettable historical characters who embodied the struggle for the soul of Europe, students are introduced to a pivotal period in history during which an old order was crumbling, and terrifying, confusing new ideas were gaining hold in the populace. From the righteous fury of the Viking queen Sigrid the Strong-Minded, who burned unwanted suitors alive; to the brilliant but too-cunning Moor, al-Mansur the Illustrious Victor; to the aptly named English king Ethelred the Unready; to the abiding genius of the age, Pope Sylvester II—warrior kings and concubine empresses, maniacal warriors and religious zealots bring this stirring period to life.

Author : Jesse L. Byock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520069544

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Medieval Iceland by Jesse L. Byock Pdf

Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.

Author : Davide Zori,Jesse L. Byock
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 2503544002

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Viking Archaeology in Iceland by Davide Zori,Jesse L. Byock Pdf

The Viking North Atlantic differs significantly from the popular image of violent raids and destruction characterizing the Viking Age in Northern Europe. In Iceland, Scandinavian seafarers discovered and settled a large uninhabited island. In order to survive and succeed, they adapted lifestyles and social strategies to a new environment. The result was a new society, the Icelandic Free State. This volume examines the Viking Age in Iceland through the discoveries and excavations of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) in Iceland's Mosfell Valley. Directed by Professor Jesse Byock, with Field Director Davide Zori, MAP brings together scholars and researchers from Iceland, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. The Project incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, history, saga studies, osteology, zoology, paleobotany, genetics, isotope studies, place names studies, environmental science, and historical architecture. The decade-long research of MAP has led to the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved Viking chieftain's farmstead, including a longhouse, pagan cremation site, a conversion-era stave church, and a Christian graveyard. The research results presented here tell the story of how the Mosfell Valley developed from a ninth-century settlement of Norse seafarers into a powerful Icelandic chieftaincy of the Viking Age.

Author : Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0816635897

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The History of Iceland by Gunnar Karlsson Pdf

Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.

Author : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501708473

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Viking Friendship by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson Pdf

"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000) Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity. Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigurðsson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects. The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigurðsson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553707

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The Book of Settlements by Anonim Pdf

Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004205079

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Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Author : Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442605244

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The Vikings and Their Age by Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald Pdf

This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies provide students with information on important figures in Viking lore such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardaughter, a female Viking traveler. A compelling chapter entitled "How Do We Know About the Vikings?" and a case study on the wandering monks of St. Philibert introduce students to the process of historical inquiry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Vikings and their legacy. Pedagogical resources include a detailed chronology, study questions, a glossary, 4 maps, and 14 images. Text boxes provide information on outsider perceptions of the Vikings, a detailed account of a Viking raid, and a description of a chieftain's dwelling in Arctic Norway. This study also benefits from a multi-disciplinary approach including insights and evidence from such diverse disciplines as archaeology, philology, religion, linguistics, and genetics.

Author : Vésteinn Ólason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024883683

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Dialogues with the Viking Age by Vésteinn Ólason Pdf