Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia

doi:10.1017/9781641892414

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Edited by Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek, Grzegorz Bartusik

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: November 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781641892414
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781641892414

Subjects:: History, Regional History after 1500

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New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. This interdisciplinary volume considers in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in the medieval North.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

Introduction. The goðar and “Cultural Politics” of the Years ca. 1000– 1150
pp 1-16

PART I - PRE-CHRISTIAN RITUAL PRACTICE AND LITERARY DISCOURSE
pp 17-18

Chapter 1 - The Use of Silver by the Norsemen of Truso and Wolin: The Logic of the Market or Social Prestige?
pp 19-34

Chapter 2 - Silk, Settlements, and Society in Íslendingasögur
pp 35-50

Chapter 3 - Being Óðinn Bursson: The Creation of Social and Moral Obligation in Viking Age Warrior-Bands through the Ritualized, Oral Performance of Poetry—The Case of Grímnismál
pp 51-74

Chapter 4 - Elements of Satire and Social Commentary in Heathen Praise Poems and Commemorative Odes
pp 75-90

Chapter 5 - Friendship and Man’s Reputation: A Case of Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar
pp 91-100

PART II - RECEPTION AND CULTURAL TRANSFER
pp 101-102

Chapter 6 - Cultural Transfer of Cognitive Structures of Fortune in the Latin and Old Icelandic Literatures and Languages: The Case of the Metaphor Fortune is a Wheel
pp 103-138

Chapter 7 - Dating, Authorship, and Generational Memory in Ljósvetninga saga: A Late Response to Barði Guðmundsson
pp 139-154

Chapter 8 - Quid Sigurthus cum Christo? An Examination of Sigurd’s Christian Potential in Medieval Scandinavia
pp 155-172

Chapter 9 - Jómsborg and the German Reception of Jómsvíkinga saga: Introducing Masterhood as a Social Norm
pp 173-184

PART III - OUTSIDERS AND TRANSGRESSORS
pp 185-186

Chapter 10 - The Unfamiliar Other: Distortions of Social Cognition Through Disguise in Two Íslendingasögur
pp 187-200

Chapter 11 - A Deviant Word Hoard: A Preliminary Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia
pp 201-212

Chapter 12 - Enchanting the Land: Monstrous Magic, Social Concerns, and the Natural World in the Íslendingasögur
pp 213-228

Chapter 13 - Social Margins in Karlamagnús saga: The Rejection of Poverty
pp 229-238

Chapter 14 - Þótti mǫnnum … hann myndi verða engi jafnaðarmaðr: The Narrator, the Trouble-Maker, and Public Opinion
pp 239-254

Chapter 15 - Discipline or Punish? Travels and Outlawry as Social Structures in Medieval Iceland
pp 255-268

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