The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards
Författare
Redaktör
- Lars Larsson
- Fredrik Ekengren
- Bertil Helgesson
- Bengt Söderberg
Summary, in English
This study suggests a predominantly socially-strategic function of the silver found in Viking Age hoards, more specifically, connected to the realm of customary law and the blood feud as a social institution. This suggestion is based on a quantitative and contextual analysis of the Íslendingasögur, and a comparison between the function of silver in the sagas and the composition and context of the hoards.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
20-26
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Archaeopress
Ämne
- History and Archaeology
Nyckelord
- Spillings
- Hoards
- Silver
- Customary law
- Viking Age
- Íslendingasögur
- Early Medieval Archaeology
- Family Sagas
- Old Norse
- Viking Studies
Status
Published
Projekt
- The social weight of silver in Viking Age Scandinavia
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9781784911317