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Viking-Age Transformations Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia

302 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

302 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

302 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and... Read more

Preface and acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1. Viking-Age economic transformations: the West-Scandinavian case

Dagfinn Skre

Part I – Trade and traders

2. Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies

Eivind Heldaas Seland

3. The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jämtland, c. 875–1050

Olof Holm

4. Domestic and exotic materials in early mMedieval Norwegian towns: an archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption

Gitte Hansen

5. The price of justice and administration of coinage

Svein Gullbekk and Frode Iversen

Part II – Production and resources

6. The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century: a regional perspective

Ole Tveiten and Kjetil Loftsgarden

7. Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production

Unn Pedersen

8. Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages

Irene Baug

9. The Uplands: the deepest of forest and the highest of mountains – resource exploitation and landscape management in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in southern Norway

Kathrine Stene and Vivian Wangen

Part III – Sites of trade

10. A view from the valley: Langeid in Setesdal, South Norway – a Viking-Age trade station along a mercantile highway

Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad and Camilla Cecilie Wenn

11. Heimdalsjordet: trade, production and communication

Jan Bill and Christian Løchsen Rødsrud

12. The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian ‘Mountain Land’

Kjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad and Frans-Arne Stylegar

13. The urban hinterland: interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval Norway

Frode Iversen

Index