Viking Friendship : : The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300 / / Jon Vidar Sigurdsson.
"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."-Odin, from the Havamal (c. 1000)Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains,...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Friendship: The Most Important Social Bond in Iceland in the Free State Period
- 2. Friendship between Chieftains: "To His Friend a Man Should Be a Friend, and Repay Gifts with Gifts"
- 3. Kings and Their Friends
- 4. Clerics and Friendship
- 5. Friends of the Gods
- 6. Kinsmen and Friends: "Let There Be a Fjord between Kinsmen, but a Bay between Friends"
- 7. Friendship Loses Its Power: Political Changes in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
- 8. Pragmatic Friendship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index