Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages
Subtitle: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes
By: by Gro Steinsland ... [et al.].
Series: The Northern world -- v. 52
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789004205062
Subjects: Ideology; Kings and rulers; Vikings; Power (Social sciences); Middle Ages; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / Gro Steinsland; title: Origin myths and rulership : from the Viking Age ruler to the ruler of medieval historiography : continuity, transformations, and innovations / Gro Steinsland; title: Kings, earls, and chieftains : rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland, c. 900-1300 / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson; title: Jarla sögur Orkneyja : status and power of the earls of Orkney according to their sagas / Ian Beuermann; title: 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; title: 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; title: The warrior in Old Norse religion / Jens Peter Schjodt; title: Oðinn, Valhöll, and the Einherjar : eschatological myth and ideology in the late Viking period / Anders Hultgard; title: Family matters? : the cultus of the Scandinavian royal martyrs / Joanna A. Skorzewska; title: Conclusions: The long adaptation of pagan and Christian ideologies of rulership / Ian Beuermann.