Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes

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Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes

edited by Gro Steinsland ... [et al.]

(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 52)

Brill, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian ideology, and of its confrontation with the new European ideals has so far been lacking. This book examines the concepts and practices associated with chieftains, earls and kings from the ninth to the thirteenth century: the myths and rituals surrounding their position in a northern European warrior culture. The analysis seems to indicate that important elements of the pre-Christian ideology of rulership survived into the Christian Middle Ages, either transformed or even simply transferred. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Anders Hultgard, Jan Erik Rekdal, Jens Peter Schjodt, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, Joanna Skorzewska, Gro Steinsland and Olof Sundqvist.

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List of Contributors List of Maps and Figures Preface Introduction. Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes, Gro Steinsland Chapter One. Origin Myths and Rulership. From the Viking Age Ruler to the Ruler of Medieval Historiography: Continuity, Transformations and Innovations, Gro Steinsland Chapter Two. Kings, Earls and Chieftains. Rulers in Norway, Orkney and Iceland c. 900-1300, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson Chapter Three. Jarla So gur Orkneyja. Status and Power of the Earls of Orkney According to Their Sagas, Ian Beuermann Chapter Four. An Arena for Higher Powers. Cult Buildings and Rulers in the Late Iron Age and the Early Medieval Period in the Malar Region, Olof Sundqvist Chapter Five. 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 Chapter Six. The Warrior in Old Norse Religion, Jens Peter Schjodt Chapter Seven. Odinn, Valho ll and the Einherjar. Eschatological Myth and Ideology in the Late Viking Period, Anders Hultgard Chapter Eight. Family Matters? The Cultus of the Scandinavian Royal Martyrs, Joanna A. Skorzewska Conclusions. The Long Adaptation of Pagan and Christian Ideologies of Rulership, Ian Beuermann Index

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