Tag: Vikings
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Onund ‘Treefoot’ the Viking
Onund appears in the beginning of Grettir’s Saga, a 14thC Icelandic Saga, as a kind of genealogical backstory. A free version of the saga is available on the Saga Database here if you want to explore it more, based Morris and Magnusson’s translation, and for the purpose of accessibility this will be the translation used…
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Vikings in the Danelaw – an Archaeological Footprint
This week I thought I’d write a quick article about my favourite article ever – Richard and Haldenby’s 2018 The Scale and Impact of Viking Settlement in Northumbria. You can find a copy of the article here, if you’d like to read along – I’d hugely recommend it. It provides an amazing example of how…
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Rude Viking Nicknames
Understanding Nicknames I’ve had a brief look at offensive and shocking nicknames before, especially among the Anglo-Saxons, but here we’re going to look in a little more depth, with some more examples. Again, I’m drawing primarily from Peterson’s excellent 2015 thesis (which you can access here). Peterson often acknowledges a broad range of potential translations…
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Viking Lead Trade Weights
Explaining Viking Trade Weights ‘Viking-Age’ trade weights are a widely attested phenomena in Scandinavia, but equally so in England. Manufactured in a broad range of materials and alloys (Maleszka 2003, 286), they are understood to form part of the system of Gewichtsgeldwirtschaft (bullion economy): a process of exchange of precious metal based on weight, common…