Thesis: Houses and households in early Icelandic society: geoarchaeology and the interpretation of social space
Thesis
Milek's thesis on using archaeological data as supporting evidence in the debate on how early Icelandic society was constituted and organised, and how it developed over its first 200 years. The thesis is available to download at the item's hyperlink.
Citation:
Milek, K. B. (2007). Houses and households in early Icelandic society: geoarchaeology and the interpretation of social space (doctoral thesis).
K. B. Milek
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
K. B. Milek
16/01/2007
Administrator
K. B. Milek
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
pdf
English
Hyperlink
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245017
Viking Age, Medieval, Iceland
'Vinkler på vikingetiden' ('Angles on the Viking Age') Publication from the National Museum of Denmark
Education
This fantastic publication covers everything from politics and belief in Viking Age Denmark, to experimental archaeology and the journey of the Sea Stallion. It also includes two chapters on the use of Viking branding in the past and in Denmark today (Chapters 11 and 12). The publication is in Danish, but contains a great deal of illustrative material.
The chapter headings are as follows (translated into English):
1) Vikingen bliver til (The Vikings come into being)
2) Menneske og samfund (People and Society)
3) Vikingerne og deres togter (The Vikings and their journeys)
4) Omverdenens syn på vikingerne (The wider world's view of the Vikings)
5) Vikingetidens langskib og eksperimentel arkæologi (The long-ships of the Viking Age and Experimental Archaeology)
6) Fællesskab og kongemagt i vikingetidens Danmark (Community and Royal Power in Denmark)
7) Det danske riges tilblivelse (The Origin of the Danish Kingdom)
8) Offer og kultplads i vikingetiden (Sacrifice and Sacred Sites in the Viking Age)
9) Nordisk religion og overgangen til kristendom (Norse Religion and the Transition to Christianity)
10) Krigeren i nordisk religion (The Warrior in Norse Religion)
11) Vikingernes sande efterkommere (The Vikings' True Descendants)
12) Vikingerne lever (Living Vikings)
The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet)
<a href="http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/undervisning/dokumenter/Vinkler_paa_vikingetiden_Vikingeantologi_undervisning.pdf" target="_blank">http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/undervisning/dokumenter/Vinkler_paa_vikingetiden_Vikingeantologi_undervisning.pdf</a>
Nationalmuseet
2013
Lasse Rahn
© Nationalmuseet & Skoletjenesten, forfatterne 2013
PDF
Danish / Dansk
Hyperlink
http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/undervisning/dokumenter/Vinkler_paa_vikingetiden_Vikingeantologi_undervisning.pdf
Denmark
Viking Age
Modern