New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. This interdisciplinary volume considers in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in the medieval North.
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- Preface
- The goðar and “Cultural Politics” of the Years CA. 1000–1150—Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
- Part I—Pre-Christian Ritual Practice and Literary Discourse
- The Use of Silver by the Norsemen of Truso and Wolin—Dariusz Adamczyk
- Silk, Settlements, and Society in Íslendingasögur—Anita Sauckel
- Being Óðinn Bursson—Simon Hygaard
- Elements of Satire and Social Commentary in Heathen Praise—David Ashurst
- Friendship and Man’s Reputation—Marta Rey-Radlińska
- Part II—Reception and Cultural Transfer
- Cultural Transfer of Cognitive Structures of Fortune in the Latin—Grzegorz Bartusik
- Dating, Authorship, and Generational Memory in Ljósvetninga—Yoav Tirosh
- Quid Sigurthus cum Christo? An Examination of Sigurd’s Christian—Łukasz Neubauer
- Jómsborg and the German Reception of Jómsvíkinga—Michael Irlenbusch-Reynard
- Part III—Outsiders and Transgressors
- The Unfamiliar Other—Alexander J. Wilson
- A Deviant Word Hoard—Keith Ruiter
- Enchanting the Land—Rebecca Merkelbach
- Social Margins in Karlamagnús saga—Aleksandra Jochymek
- Þótti mǫnnum … hann myndi verða engi jafnaðarmaðr: The Narrator, the Trouble-Maker, and Public Opinion—Joanne Shortt Butler
- Discipline or Punish?—Marion Poilvez
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