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1 online resource (353 p.) |
Series |
Culture, Environment and Adaptation in the North Ser |
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Culture, Environment and Adaptation in the North Ser
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introducing Vikings Across Boundaries -- PART I: Exchange and travel: connections across the Viking world -- 2. Feasting, friendship and alliances: the socio-political use of Insular vessels in Viking-Age Norway -- 3. Viking-Age landing places: a time for reconsideration? -- 4. Scandinavians on the Southern Baltic coast -- 5. Western Finland in the Viking world |
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6. Pre-Viking-Age ship burials at Salme in Estonia: the first eastern Vikings or indications of a shared cultural milieu? -- PART II: Communicating identities: at home and abroad -- 7. Women as bearers of cultural tradition in Viking-Age England -- 8. Urban way of life as identity? A case study from Ribe's emporium -- 9. Displaying and (re)negotiating identities: migration and funerary rites in Viking-Age Northern Scotland -- 10. 'Vikings' and the formation of the new identities and new centres of power in the Upper Volga -- 11. Sámi Vikings? -- 12. Warrior identities in Viking-Age Scandinavia |
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PART III: Dynamic social expressions in life and death -- 13. Socially significant Viking-Age housing -- 14. The martial function of the central places -- 15. The dead of the Viking-Age towns in Scandinavia -- 16. A geography of slavery: ceramic networks and communities in the Lake Mälaren valley, Sweden c. AD 950 to 1150 -- 17. Warfare and recruitment in Iron Age central Norway -- Index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Naumann, Elise
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Lund Berg, Heidi
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Pedersen, Unn
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Moen, Marianne
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ISBN |
9781000204704 |
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1000204707 |
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