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Viking Age Iceland

Paperback. Pub: 09 2001 Pages: 432 Publisher: Penguin The popular image of the Viking Age is of the WARLORDS Marauding bands Pillaging their way along the Shores of Northern Europe In this fascinating history of Jesse Byock Shows That Norse Society in. Iceland was actually an independent one-almost a republican Free State. without warlords or kings. Combining history with anthropology and archaeology. this remarkable study serves as a valuable companion to the Icelandic sagas. exploring all aspects of Viking Age life: feasting. farming. the power of chieftains and the church. marriage. and the role of women. With masterful interpretations of the blood feuds and the sagas. Byock reveals how the law courts favored compromise over violence. and how the society grappled with proto-democratic tendencies. A work with oad social and historical implications for our modern institutio...

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