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Viking Age Iceland (Penguin History) Book

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...Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • Penguin

    The popular image of the Viking Age is a time of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. Yet, as Jesse Byock reveals in this deeply fascinating and important history, the society founded by Norsemen in Iceland was far from this picture.

  • 0140291156
  • 9780140291155
  • Jesse L Byock
  • 22 February 2001
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
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