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Scandinavian History in the Viking Age
see (C276); for missionary activity from various directions (L130 ff.); for episcopal organisation (or the
lack of it) (L210 ff.)
For studies on Emund, who reigned around the 1050s, in particular:
[F96] S. Lindqvist, ‘Emund slema och Ingvar vittfaren’, SOS 1968, 74-98
[F97] B. Olrik Frederiksen, ‘Emund slemas navn og rygte’, SAS 10 (1992), 5-24
Early mediaeval Sweden
The development of Sweden in the early mediaeval period is of crucial significance, since many older
trends can only then be identified; for surveys, see the textbooks in (A), particularly (A35), and (F1, F8).
[F100] J. Rosén, Svensk historia 1. Tiden före 1718, 2nd edn (1964) [UL 595:1.c.95.8]
On the incipient feudal tendencies and the development of a Swedish ‘state’, cf. (C247) and:
[F101] T. Lindkvist, Plundring, skatter och den feodala statens framväxt: organisatoriska tendenser i
Sverige under övergången från vikingatid till tidig medeltid, 2nd edn (1990) [UL 9002.d.7944] (E.s.)
THE VIKING EXPANSION
G. ICELAND
The settlement of Iceland in the late ninth and tenth centuries has proved a treasure-trove for scholars
attempting to chart the development of what may be called the first new recorded society in history. The
island has further significance as the repository of the collective Scandinavian historical consciousness,
leading to the composition of the much-famed sagas (B290 ff., B350 ff.) and the preservation of Vikingage
poetry (B480 ff.). For more general surveys of the whole North Atlantic, see section (H); (H5) is a
particularly useful introduction containing translations of many excerpts of source material.
General
[G1] J. Jóhannesson, A history of the old Icelandic commonwealth: Íslendinga saga, University of
Manitoba Icelandic studies 2 (1974) [UL 599:01.c.5.2]
[G2] N.P. Njarðvík, Birth of a nation: the story of the Icelandic commonwealth (1978) [UL
599:2.c.95.21]
[G3] B.E. Gelsinger, Icelandic enterprise: commerce and economy in the middle ages (1981) [UL
599:2.c.95.22]
[G4] K. Hastrup, Culture and history in medieval Iceland: an anthropological analysis of structure and
change (1985) [UL 599:2.c.95.26]
[G5] J.L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: society, sagas and power (1988; repr. 1993) [UL 599:2.c.95.28, repr.
599:2.c.95.35]
[G6] S. Nordal, Icelandic culture, transl. and rev. V.T. Bjarnar (1990) [UL 599:2.c.95.34]
[G7] G. Pálsson, (ed.), From sagas to society: comparative approaches to early Iceland (1992) [UL
752:37.c.95.40]
[G8] G. Karlsson, ‘A century of research on early Icelandic society’, (O72):15-25
[G9] H. Guðmundsson, Um haf innan: vestrænir menn og íslenzk menning á miðöldum (1997) [UL
592:12.c.95.57]
[G10] O. Vésteinsson, The Christianization of Iceland: priests, power, and social change, 1000-1300
(2000) [UL 62:56.c.200.1]
[G11] J. L. Byock, Viking age Iceland (2001) [ASNC]
[G12] P. Meulengracht Sørensen, ‘Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (c. 870-
1400) and their relations to literary production’, (B235):8-29
[G13] J. Quinn, ‘From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland’, (B235):30-60
The archaeological record
The material culture of Iceland is heavily based on Scandinavian, particularly Norwegian, models.
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