Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia / / ed. by Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek, Grzegorz Bartusik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Adamczyk, Dariusz,; Ashurst, David,; Bartusik, Grzegorz,; Butler, Joanne Shortt,; Irlenbusch-Reynard, Michael,; Jochymek, Aleksandra,; Merkelbach, Rebecca,; Neubauer, Łukasz,; Nygaard, Simon,; Poilvez, Marion,; Rey-Radlińska, Marta,; Ruiter, Keith,; Sauckel, Anita,; Sigurðsson, Jón Viðar,; Tirosh, Yoav,; Wilson, Alexander J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bartusik, Grzegorz,; Jochymek, Aleksandra,; Morawiec, Jakub,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Beyond Medieval Europe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

In the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language. Everyday norms are mainly conveyed orally or ritually, and rarely in a written or material shape. Despite this, the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the medieval North. New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in medieval Scandinavian literature. This volume considers in depth how social norms affected the creation and functioning of societies in the medieval North, approaching the topic from a range of disciplinary angles including law-making, politics, religion, and literacy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. The goðar and "Cultural Politics" of the Years ca. 1000- 1150 -- PART I: PRE-CHRISTIAN RITUAL PRACTICE AND LITERARY DISCOURSE -- Chapter 1. The Use of Silver by the Norsemen of Truso and Wolin: The Logic of the Market or Social Prestige? -- Chapter 2. Silk, Settlements, and Society in Íslendingasögur -- Chapter 3. Being Óðinn Bursson: The Creation of Social and Moral Obligation in Viking Age Warrior- Bands through the Ritualized, Oral Performance of Poetry-The Case of Grímnismál -- Chapter 4. Elements of Satire and Social Commentary in Heathen Praise Poems and Commemorative Odes -- Chapter 5. Friendship and Man's Reputation: A Case of Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar -- PART II: RECEPTION AND CULTURAL TRANSFER -- Chapter 6. Cultural Transfer of Cognitive Structures of Fortune in the Latin and Old Icelandic Literatures and Languages: The Case of the Metaphor Fortune is a Wheel -- Chapter 7. Dating, Authorship, and Generational Memory in Ljósvetninga saga: A Late Response to Barði Guðmundsson -- Chapter 8. Quid Sigurthus cum Christo? An Examination of Sigurd's Christian Potential in Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 9. Jómsborg and the German Reception of Jómsvíkinga saga: Introducing Masterhood as a Social Norm -- PART III: OUTSIDERS AND TRANSGRESSORS -- Chapter 10. The Unfamiliar Other: Distortions of Social Cognition Through Disguise in Two Íslendingasögur -- Chapter 11. A Deviant Word Hoard: A Preliminary Study of Non- Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 12. Enchanting the Land: Monstrous Magic, Social Concerns, and the Natural World in the Íslendingasögur -- Chapter 13. Social Margins in Karlamagnús saga: The Rejection of Poverty -- Chapter 14. Þótti mǫnnum ... hann myndi verða engi jafnaðarmaðr: The Narrator, the Trouble- Maker, and Public Opinion -- Chapter 15. Discipline or Punish? Travels and Outlawry as Social Structures in Medieval Iceland