Viking age Iceland
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Viking age Iceland
（Penguin books, . Penguin history）
Penguin Books, 2001
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Bibliography: p. 396-430
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.
目次
- An immigrant society
- resources and subsistence - life on a northern island
- curdled milk and calamities - an inward-looking farming society
- a devolving and evolving social order
- the founding of a new society and the historical sources
- limitations on a chieftain's ambitions, and strategies
- chietfain-thingmen relationships and advocacy
- the family and Sturlunga sagas -mediaeval narratives
- the legislative and judicial system
- systems of power - advocates, friendship and family
- aspects of blood feud
- feud and vendetta in a "great village" community
- friendship, blood feud and power - "the saga of the people of weapon's fjord"
- the obvious sources of wealth
- lucrative sources of wealth for chieftains
- a peaceful conversion - the Viking age church
- "Gragas" - the "grey goose" law
- bishops and secular authority - the later church
- big chieftains, big farmers and their sagas at the end of the free state
- appendix 1 - the law-speakers
- appendix 2 - bishops during the free state
- appendix 3 -turf construction
- appendix 4 - a woman who travelled from Vinland to Rome.
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