‎Bosco, Jacques-Olivier‎
‎La Viking‎

‎Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Studies of the Viking Age‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 365 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 10 col., 1 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503592961.‎

‎Summary What happens when scholars cross outside the perceived 'boundaries' of their discipline? What problems arise when a scholar trained in one field employs materials or methodologies from an adjacent subject area, engaging with new sources, research methodologies, and traditions, and how can such issues be resolved? Taking as its starting point the increasing shift towards interdisciplinarity seen within Viking-age studies, this collection of essays aims to explore the benefits and pitfalls that can arise from crossing disciplinary borders in this area, and to gain new knowledge about how to address issues that have occurred in previous examples of interdisciplinary combinations. The volume draws together contributions from authors in different disciplines, among them philology, history, archaeology, literary studies, folklore studies and history of religion, in order to hold a constructive and multi-perspective discussion on the benefits and issues arising from interdisciplinary research in studies of the Viking Age. Together, these chapters aim to bridge the gap that often exists between scholars from adjacent fields of research, and in doing so, to stimulate the trend in interdisciplinary approaches to research that can improve our understanding of the past. TABLE OF CONTENTS Interdisciplinarity in Viking Age Studies. An Introduction Daniel Sävborg Interdisciplinary ? Multidisciplinary ? Transdisciplinary. Navigating the Wandering Rocks of Trending Terminology on Changeable Tides of Discipline Ideology Frog The Legend of the Invitation of Varangian Princes in the Light of Interdisciplinarity Elena Melnikova Saga Studies and Slavic-Finnish Archaeology: 'Bilateral Cooperation' Tatjana N. Jackson Crossing Borders between Literature and Toponymy. The Narrative Landscape of Hvolsvöllur and its Implications Matthias Egeler Women and Swords in the Viking Age. An Interdisciplinary Study of an Archaeological and Textual Motif Leszek Gardela 'Many big ships and excellently well fitted?'. A Case Study of Norse Vessels in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar c. 1204-1263 William Pidzamecky Interdisciplinary Research in the Study of Human Sacrifices in Late Iron Age Scandinavia Klas Wikström af Edholm The Royal Erfi-Feast, Inauguration at the High-Seat, and Genealogical Knowledge in Viking Age Scandinavia. An Interdisciplinary Approach Olof Sundqvist Some Thoughts on the Category of Religion in Research of Viking Age Scandinavia Andreas Nordberg Molding Myth and Memory. The Plasticity of Old Norse/Icelandic Traditional Tales Annette Lassen Old Norse Religion and the Troublesome Quest for an Interdisciplinary Approach Henrik Janson‎

‎Viking Archaeology in Iceland, Mosfell Archaeological Project.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2014 Paperback, XXVI 256 pages ., 83 b/w ill. 10 colour ill. 17 maps, 23 graphs, 28 b/w tables, 216 x 280 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503544007.‎

‎The Viking North Atlantic differs significantly from the popular image of violent raids and destruction characterizing the Viking Age in Northern Europe. In Iceland, Scandinavian seafarers discovered and settled a large uninhabited island. In order to survive and succeed, they adapted lifestyles and social strategies to a new environment. The result was a new society, the Icelandic Free State. This volume examines the Viking Age in Iceland through the discoveries and excavations of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) in Iceland?s Mosfell Valley. Directed by Professor Jesse Byock with Field Director Davide Zori, MAP brings together scholars and researchers from Iceland, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. The Project incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, history, saga studies, osteology, zoology, paleobotany, genetics, isotope studies, place-names studies, environmental science, and historical architecture. The decade-long research of MAP has led to the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved Viking chieftain?s farmstead, including a longhouse, a pagan cremation site, a conversion-era stave church, and a Christian graveyard. The research results presented here tell the story of how the Mosfell Valley developed from a ninth-century settlement of Norse seafarers into a powerful Icelandic chieftaincy of the Viking Age. ‎

‎Demarco C. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the ancient norm. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the‎

‎Demarco C. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the ancient norm. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the Ancient Scandinavians/Demarko S. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the ancient norse. Orakul Vikingov Mudrost drevnikh skandinavov. E6‎

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‎Viking Oracle Wisdom of the ancient Norse. Viking Oracle Wisdom of the Ancient Scandinavians In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Viking Oracle Wisdom of the ancient norse. Orakul Vikingov Mudrost drevnikh skandinavov. Blue Angel Publishing 2017 (ISBN978-0-98720-414-1 / 9780987204141) An interesting and convenient divination tool for practitioners of Scandinavian magic in all its manifestations We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbf692cf2b8f872daf‎

‎Making the Profane Sacred in the Viking Age. Essays in Honour of Stefan Brink‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xii + 336 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:23 b/w, 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586045.‎

‎Summary The term 'sacred' is often used in relation to the pre-Christian religions of Iron Age and medieval Scandinavia. But what did sacred really mean? What made something sacred for people? Why was one particular person, place, act, or text perceived to hold a sacral quality, while others remained profane? And what impact did such sacrality have on wider society, culture, politics, and economics, both for contemporaries and for future generations? This volume seeks to engage with such questions by drawing together essays from many of the pre-eminent scholars of Old Norse in order to reinterpret the concept of the sacred in the Viking Age North and to challenge pre-existing frameworks for understanding the sacred in this space and time. Including essays from Margaret Clunies Ross, Stephen Mitchell, John Lindow, and Judy Quinn, it is a treasury of commentary and information that ranges widely across theories and sources of evidence to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship. This edited collection is dedicated to Stefan Brink, an outstanding figure in the study of early Scandinavian language, society, and culture, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field of Old Norse studies. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - OLOF SUNDQVIST, DECLAN TAGGART, AND IRENE GARCÍA LOSQUIÑO Part I: Understanding Sacredness What Does heilagr Mean in Old Norse? - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS Landscape - Sacred and Profane - JENS PETER SCHJØDT Sacred and Profane, Visual and Lived-in: A Note on some Creative Tensions in the Landscape - MATS WIDGREN Part II: Sacredness and Space Ritual Places, Sacral Place-names, and Wetlands: Some Spatial and Archaeological Contexts from the Baltic Island of Öland - JAN-HENRIK FALLGREN Ritual Space and Territorial Boundaries in Scandinavia - TORUN ZACHRISSON Karlevi: A Viking Age Harbour on Öland - PER VIKSTRAND Stafgarþar Revisited - ANDERS ANDRÉN Sacredness Lost: On the Variable Status of Churches in the Middle Ages - BERTIL NILSSON Part III: The Sacred and the Text Tradition and Ideology in Eddic Poetry - JOHN MCKINNELL Sacred Hero, Holy Places: The Eddic Helgi-Tradition - CAROLYNE LARRINGTON Fifth-Column Mother: Týr's Parentage according to Hymiskviða - JUDY QUINN Part IV: Sacredness Across Contexts From Legend to Myth? - JOHN LINDOW The Landscape of Thor Worship in Sweden - TARRIN WILLS Conversion, Popular Religion, and Syncretism: Some Reflections -ANNE-SOFIE GRÄSLUND Swine, Swedes, and Fertility Gods - BO GRÄSLUND The Goddesses in the Dark Waters - TERRY GUNNELL Part V: Afterlives of Sacredness Valh?ll and the Swedish 'Valhall' Mountains of the Dead - ANDREAS NORDBERG Place-names, Periphrasis, and Popular Tradition: Odinic Toponyms on Samsø - STEPHEN A. MITCHELL Sacred Sites and Central Places: Experiences of Multidisciplinary Research Projects - CHARLOTTE FABECH AND ULF NÄSMAN A Bibliography of Stefan Brink's Publications, Compiled with Assistance from Per Vikstrand‎