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Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes
Title
Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes / edited by Gro Steinsland ... [et al.].
ISBN
9789004205062 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9004205063 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Physical Description
vi, 405 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2011
Series
The northern world, v. 52
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / Gro Steinsland
Origin myths and rulership : from the Viking Age ruler to the ruler of medieval historiography : continuity, transformations and innovations / Gro Steinsland
Kings, earls and chieftains : rulers in Norway, Orkney and Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Jarla sögur Orkneyja : status and power of the earls of Orkney according to their sagas / Ian Beuermann
An arena for higher powers : cult buildings and rulers in the late Iron Age and the early medieval period in the Mälar region / Olof Sundqvist
From wine in a goblet to milk in cowdung : the transformation of early Christian kings in three post-viking tales from Ireland / Jan Erik Rekdal
The warrior in Old Norse religion / Jens Peter Schøjdt
Óðinn, Valhöll and the Einherjar : eschatological myth and ideology in the late Viking period / Anders Hultgård
Family matters? : the cultus of the Scandinavian royal martyrs / Joanna A. Skórzewska
Conclusions: The long adaptation of pagan and Christian ideologies of rulership / Ian Beuermann.
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