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Books (available at the campus bookshop (Akademika)):


Somerville, Angus A. and R. Andrew McDonald, The Vikings And Their Age. Companions to Medieval Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. (160).

Jón Vi?ar Sigur?sson 2017, Viking Friendship. The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, C. 900–1300. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017.

 

Compendium (available at the counter downstairs at the bookshop - please remember to bring your student ID when buying compendiums):


Knut Helle ed., The Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 105-234.

Kupiec, Patrycja og Karen Milek 2015. Roles and perceptions of shielings and the mediation of gender identities in Viking and medieval Iceland. In Viking Worlds. Things, spaces, and movement, eds. by M.H.Eriksen et al.. Oxford, 102-123.

Jón Vi?ar Sigur?sson, Kings, Earls and Chieftains. Rulers in Norway, Orkney and Iceland c. 900-1300, Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages. Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes. Ed. by Gro Steinsland et al., Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2011, 69-108.

Skre, Dagfinn: Towns and Markets, Kings and Central Places in South-western Scandinavia c. AD 800-950. I Kaupang in Skiringssal, red. av Dagfinn Skre, s. 445-469.

 

Online articles (accessible through the UiO network):

Abrams, Lesley 2012, Diaspora and identity in the Viking Age, Early Medieval Europe 20, 17-38.

 

Amory, Frederic 2001, The Historical Worth of Rígs?ula, Alvíssmál 10, 3-20.

 

Andrén, Anders , The significance of places: the Christianization of Scandinavia from a spatial point of view, World Archaeology, 2013, 45, 27-45.

 

Ashby, Steven P. 2015, What really caused the Viking Age? The social content of raiding and exploration, Archaeological Dialogues 22, 89-106.

 

Baker, Matthew J & Erwin, H Bulte 2010, Kings and Vikings: on the dynamics of competitive agglomeration, Economics of Governance 11, 207-227.

 

Barrett, James H. 2008, What caused the Viking Age?, Antiquity 82, 671–685.

 

Bill, Jan & Aoife Daly 2012, The plundering of the ship graves from Oseberg and Gokstad: an example of power politics?, Antiquity 86, 808-824. NY

 

Dobat, Andres Siegfried, Danevirke Revisited: An Investigation into Military and Socio-political Organisation in South Scandinavia (c AD 700 to 1100), Medieval Archaeology

2008, 52, 27-67.

 

Dobat, Andres Siegfried, The State and the Strangers: The Role of External Forces in a Process of State Formation in Viking-Age South Scandinavia (c. AD 900–1050), Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2009, 5, 65-104.

 

Gl?rstad, Zanette Tsigaridas 2012, Sign of the Times? The Transfer and Transformation of Penannular Brooches in Viking-Age Norway, Norwegian Archaeological Review 45, 30-51.

 

Goeres, Erin, The Many Conversions of Hallfre?r Vandr??askáld, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2011, 7, 45–62.

 

Holst, Mads K?hler et al. 2012, The Late Viking-Age Royal Constructions at Jelling, central Jutland, Denmark, Praehistorische Zeitschrift 87(2), 474-504.

 

Jessen, Mads Dengs? et al., A Palisade Fit for a King: Ideal Architecture in King Harald Bluetooth’s Jelling, Norwegian Archaeological Review 2014, 47, 42-64.

 

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Rational Bandits: Plunder, Public Goods, and the Vikings, Public Choice 2003, 117, 255-272.

 

Lund, Niels 1989, Allies Of God Or Man? The Viking Expansion In European Perspective, Viator 20, 45-60.

 

Mansfield, Anthony 2014, Lords of the North Sea World: A Comparative Study of Aristocratic Territory in the North Sea World in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, Networks and Neighbours 2, 46-70.

 

Mac Carron, P. & R. Kenna, Network analysis of the ?slendinga s?gur – the Sagas of Icelanders, The European Physical Journal B 2013, 86, 1-9.

 

Mac Carron, Pádraig & Ralph Kenna, Viking sagas: Six degrees of Icelandic separation Social networks from the Viking era, Significance 2013, 10, 12-17.

 

McKinnell, John 2007, The Making of Hávamál, Journal of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 3, 75-115.

 

McLeod, Shane, Warriors and women: the sex ratio of Norse migrants to eastern England up to 900 ad, Early Medieval Europe 2011, 19, 332-353.

 

Myhre, Bj?rn, The beginning of the Viking Age, Viking revaluations. Ed. by Anthony Faulkes & Richard Perkins, London, Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 1993, 182-204.

 

Lund, Julie 2013 Fragments of a conversion: handling bodies and objects in pagan and Christian Scandinavia AD 800–1100, World archaeology 45, 46-63.

 

Naumann, E., Krzewińska, M.,G?therstr?m, A., Eriksson, G. 2014 Slaves as burial gifts in Viking Age Norway? Evidence from stable isotope and ancient DNA analyses Original Research Article. Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 41, January 2014, 533-540.

 

Sindb?k, S?ren M. 2007, Networks and nodal points: the emergence of towns in early Viking Age Scandinavia, Antiquity 81, 119–132.

 

Sindb?k, S?ren M., 2008, The Lands Of Denemearce: Cultural Differences Social Networks Of The Viking Age In South Scandinavia, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 4, 169-208.

 

Skre, Dagfinn, Missionary Activity in Early Medieval Norway. Strategy, Organization and the Course of Events, Scandinavian Journal of History 1997, 23, 1-19.

 

Jón Vi?ar Sigur?sson, The Role of Arbitration in the settlement of Disputes in Iceland c. 1000-1300, Law and Disputing in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Ninth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2012. Ed. By Per Andersen et al., Copenhagen, DJ?F Publishing, 2013, 123-135

 

Jón Vi?ar Sigur?sson 2014, Conversion and Identity in the Viking-Age North: Some Afterthoughts, Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age. Ed. by Ildar Garipzanov with the assistance of Rosalind Bonté, Turnhout, 225-243. (To be found in Fronter, under "Teaching material").

 

Sources (available online through the UiO network)

Hávamál, stanzas 1-77

Rígs?ula

Heimskringla II, Saga about St Olav, chapters 159-179

Two Voyagers, Ohthere and Wulfstan

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