The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards
(2015) p.20-26- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Ekengren, Fredrik
LU
and Domeij, Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Spillings, Hoards, Silver, Customary law, Viking Age, Íslendingasögur, Early Medieval Archaeology, Family Sagas, Old Norse, Viking Studies
- host publication
- Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh - Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh
- editor
- Larsson, Lars ; Ekengren, Fredrik ; Helgesson, Bertil and Söderberg, Bengt
- pages
- 20 - 26
- publisher
- Archaeopress
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85113896783
- ISBN
- 9781784911317
- project
- The social weight of silver in Viking Age Scandinavia
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- b69ea333-32ae-476f-b92e-93b669dd7b2e (old id 7760754)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 11:12:54
- date last changed
- 2024-02-02 02:41:20
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