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Title Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / edited by Gro Steinsland [and others]
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 405 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 52
Northern world ; v. 52.
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 Viðar Sigurðsson -- 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 -- Oðinn, 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
Summary "This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Vikings -- History
Middle Ages.
Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500
Ideology -- History -- To 1500
Power (Social sciences) -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
Ideology
Kings and rulers
Middle Ages
Power (Social sciences)
Vikings
SUBJECT Scandinavia -- History -- To 1397. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003008080
Iceland -- History -- To 1262. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007952
Ireland -- History -- To 1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067991
Orkney (Scotland) -- History
Faroe Islands -- History
Subject Faroe Islands
Iceland
Ireland
Scandinavia
Scotland -- Orkney
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Steinsland, Gro.
LC no. 2011006132
ISBN 9789004205079
9004205071