The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [2nd Edition] 1842172603, 9781842172605

Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the prob

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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [2nd Edition]
1842172603, 9781842172605

Two hundered years of antiquarian and archaeological and archaeological interest has generated an archive of some 1350 V

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Translated by Märit Gaimster. Textiles and the work with its production is something which I always have been intereste

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Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with litt

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This book is the first of hopefully two eventually to be produced within the project "The Late Iron Age in South Sc

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The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the enc

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Roman Reflections uses a series of detailed and deeply researched case studies to explore how Roman society connected wi

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) Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scan

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The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but

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This study investigates potential regional patterns of Iron Age burial practices and the cultural implications thereof.

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The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse. A critic

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