Recent metal-detecting in areas of northern and eastern England has brought to light hundreds of Viking-Age brooches decorated in Scandinavian styles. While some objects are likely to be products of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian interaction, others are diagnostically Scandinavian and may have been imported from the Scandinavian homelands. The following considers the distribution of these items within England, together with their chronology and status. It suggests that such pieces were worn to express Scandinavian cultural affiliation within the Danelaw. Given the status of these brooches as female dress accessories, it proposes that women in particular had a key role in promoting a Scandinavian colonial identity. In this context, this paper contributes to increasing scholarly interest in the value of material form, decoration, and consumption for negotiating identity in the Danelaw.
{"title":"Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches","authors":"J. Kershaw","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.100682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.100682","url":null,"abstract":"Recent metal-detecting in areas of northern and eastern England has brought to light hundreds of Viking-Age brooches decorated in Scandinavian styles. While some objects are likely to be products of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian interaction, others are diagnostically Scandinavian and may have been imported from the Scandinavian homelands. The following considers the distribution of these items within England, together with their chronology and status. It suggests that such pieces were worn to express Scandinavian cultural affiliation within the Danelaw. Given the status of these brooches as female dress accessories, it proposes that women in particular had a key role in promoting a Scandinavian colonial identity. In this context, this paper contributes to increasing scholarly interest in the value of material form, decoration, and consumption for negotiating identity in the Danelaw.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123727348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article investigates the nature of political life and conflict in medieval Denmark, focusing on the case of the rebellion against King Niels between 1131 and 1135. The article engages with pre...
{"title":"Political Conflict and Political Ideas in Twelfth-Century Denmark","authors":"Lars Kjær","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.114351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.114351","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the nature of political life and conflict in medieval Denmark, focusing on the case of the rebellion against King Niels between 1131 and 1135. The article engages with pre...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125041348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Into Viking Minds: Reinterpreting the Staffs of Sorcery and Unravelling Seiðr","authors":"Leszek Gardeła","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.100306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.100306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125939303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stylistic and Generic Identifiers of the Old Norse Skaldic Ekphrasis","authors":"M. Ross","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.2.302723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.2.302723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129952680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Some scholars have contended that the seven-day week in Scandinavia predates the introduction of Christianity. This argument has had its basis in the fact that four of the seven vernacular day-names include the names of ancestral gods and goddesses, respectively Týr, Oðinn, Þorr, and Frigg. In the present article the argument is taken up for reconsideration. The use of theophoric day-names by the Church in England and Germany at the time of the introduction of Christianity into Scandinavia (c. 950-1100) is surveyed in detail. On this basis, it is proposed that Church institutions would not have resisted the introduction of such names in the newly Christianized Scandinavia.
{"title":"The Origin of the Seven-day Week in Scandinavia: Part 1: The Theophoric Day-names","authors":"L. Sonne","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.105218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.105218","url":null,"abstract":"Some scholars have contended that the seven-day week in Scandinavia predates the introduction of Christianity. This argument has had its basis in the fact that four of the seven vernacular day-names include the names of ancestral gods and goddesses, respectively Týr, Oðinn, Þorr, and Frigg. In the present article the argument is taken up for reconsideration. The use of theophoric day-names by the Church in England and Germany at the time of the introduction of Christianity into Scandinavia (c. 950-1100) is surveyed in detail. On this basis, it is proposed that Church institutions would not have resisted the introduction of such names in the newly Christianized Scandinavia.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124639824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Did Rannveig Change her Mind? Resolve and Violence in Þorsteins þáttr stangarhoggs","authors":"Oren Falk","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.2.3017463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.2.3017463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122291222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present article investigates the unique features of Icelandic geographical terrain and its impact upon cognitive reality of medieval Iceland. The focus is on saga depictions of Viking-Age individuals on Iceland’s western coast passing into their local mountains when they die. This, it is contended, does not constitute death in the conventional sense of ceasing to be but instead a transformation into ambiguous ‘other’ entities which continue to inhabit the landscape in an altered state. Textual analysis is brought into dialogue with archaeological data concerning placements of mounds and burial sites in the same region and time frame. The aim is to illuminate the role of Icelandic landscape as a stage shaping medieval Icelandic beliefs and attitudes vis-avis their dead. Instead of a dichotomous opposition between this-world and other-world, it is proposed that the medieval Icelandic landscape was perceived as both at the same time.
{"title":"The Hills Have Eyes: Post-Mortem Mountain Dwelling and the (Super)Natural Landscape in the Íslendingasögur","authors":"Miriam Mayburd","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.105215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.105215","url":null,"abstract":"The present article investigates the unique features of Icelandic geographical terrain and its impact upon cognitive reality of medieval Iceland. The focus is on saga depictions of Viking-Age individuals on Iceland’s western coast passing into their local mountains when they die. This, it is contended, does not constitute death in the conventional sense of ceasing to be but instead a transformation into ambiguous ‘other’ entities which continue to inhabit the landscape in an altered state. Textual analysis is brought into dialogue with archaeological data concerning placements of mounds and burial sites in the same region and time frame. The aim is to illuminate the role of Icelandic landscape as a stage shaping medieval Icelandic beliefs and attitudes vis-avis their dead. Instead of a dichotomous opposition between this-world and other-world, it is proposed that the medieval Icelandic landscape was perceived as both at the same time.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125336418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The possible presence of Scandinavians in the Carpathian Basin during the early Middle Ages is discussed in relation to pertinent literary sources, toponyms, and linguistic and archaeological evidence. On the basis of this evidence, the historical thesis current in Hungary, namely that the bodyguard of Grand Prince Geza and King Saint Stephen I consisted of Varangian-Rus’ mercenaries, is challenged. Although the settled presence of Vikings in early medieval Hungary is unattested, the sources hint at some contacts involving commercial and military co-operation between Scandinavians and Hungarians from as early as the ninth century.
{"title":"Vikings in Hungary? The Theory of the Varangian-Rus’ Bodyguard of the First Hungarian Rulers","authors":"C. Katona","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.5.114350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.114350","url":null,"abstract":"The possible presence of Scandinavians in the Carpathian Basin during the early Middle Ages is discussed in relation to pertinent literary sources, toponyms, and linguistic and archaeological evidence. On the basis of this evidence, the historical thesis current in Hungary, namely that the bodyguard of Grand Prince Geza and King Saint Stephen I consisted of Varangian-Rus’ mercenaries, is challenged. Although the settled presence of Vikings in early medieval Hungary is unattested, the sources hint at some contacts involving commercial and military co-operation between Scandinavians and Hungarians from as early as the ninth century.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124134867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lords and Lordship in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum","authors":"Erik Niblaeus","doi":"10.1484/j.vms.5.118635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.118635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122198179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses both the urban and the rural architecture of the Irish Viking Age. Looking firstly at the extremely well-preserved Hiberno-Norse urban settlements, especially the Type 1 houses, it finds that the true nature of this architecture is a hybrid of both Norse and Irish characteristics. It considers the nature of the proposed ‘Viking’ rural settlements in Ireland and concludes that some of these may be better considered as expressions of a Hiberno-Norse identity rather than evidence of a simplistic, and misleading, ‘Viking’ settlement pattern. Returning to the well-preserved urban archaeology, the author applies Access Analysis to a single building level from Fishamble St. in Dublin, concluding that these homes were carefully organized with controls over movement and access. Finally, the Access Analysis methodology is applied to the Hiberno-Norse rural settlements and finds that some of the buildings demonstrate similar patterns of movement to those observed at Fishamble St. This hints that...
{"title":"The Irish Viking Age: A Discussion of Architecture, Settlement Patterns, and Identity","authors":"Rebecca Boyd","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.100681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.100681","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses both the urban and the rural architecture of the Irish Viking Age. Looking firstly at the extremely well-preserved Hiberno-Norse urban settlements, especially the Type 1 houses, it finds that the true nature of this architecture is a hybrid of both Norse and Irish characteristics. It considers the nature of the proposed ‘Viking’ rural settlements in Ireland and concludes that some of these may be better considered as expressions of a Hiberno-Norse identity rather than evidence of a simplistic, and misleading, ‘Viking’ settlement pattern. Returning to the well-preserved urban archaeology, the author applies Access Analysis to a single building level from Fishamble St. in Dublin, concluding that these homes were carefully organized with controls over movement and access. Finally, the Access Analysis methodology is applied to the Hiberno-Norse rural settlements and finds that some of the buildings demonstrate similar patterns of movement to those observed at Fishamble St. This hints that...","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132595532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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