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Title Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages [electronic resource] : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / edited by Gro Steinsland ... [et al.].

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description vi, 405 p. : ill., maps.
Series Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 52
Northern world ; v. 52.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / Gro Steinsland -- Origin myths and rulership : from the Viking Age ruler to the ruler of medieval historiography : continuity, transformations, and innovations / Gro Steinsland -- Kings, earls, and chieftains : rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland, c. 900-1300 / Jón Viar Sigursson -- Jarla sögur Orkneyja : status and power of the earls of Orkney according to their sagas / Ian Beuermann -- 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 -- 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 -- The warrior in Old Norse religion / Jens Peter Schjodt -- Oinn, Valhöll, and the Einherjar : eschatological myth and ideology in the late Viking period / Anders Hultgard -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Vikings -- History.
Middle Ages.
Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500.
Ideology -- History -- To 1500.
Power (Social sciences) -- History -- To 1500.
Scandinavia -- History -- To 1397.
Iceland -- History -- To 1262.
Ireland -- History -- To 1603.
Orkney (Scotland) -- History.
Faroe Islands -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Steinsland, Gro.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004205062 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9789004205079 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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