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Van Deusen, Natalie M. “‘Inn besti hlutr’?; Martha of Bethany and Women’s Roles in Medieval Iceland.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi, no. 126, 2011, pp. 73–91.

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Vilhjalmur Arnason. “Morality and Social Structure in the Icelandic Sagas.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 90, no. 2, U of Illinois P, Apr. 1991, pp. 157–74.

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Wamhoff, Laura Sonja. Isländische Erinnerungskultur 1100-1300: altnordische Historiographie und kulturelles Gedächtnis [Icelandic Culture of Remembrance 1100-1300: Old Norse Historiography and Cultural Memory]. Narr Francke Attempto, 2016.

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Wärmländer, Sebastian K.T.S., et al. “Metallurgical Findings from a Viking Age Chieftain’s Farm in Iceland.” Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, no. 9, Elsevier Ltd, 2010, pp. 2284–90, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.04.001.

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Wax, Rosalie, and Wax, Murray. “The Vikings and the Rise of Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 61, no. 1, U of Chicago P, July 1955, pp. 1–10, doi:10.1086/221656.

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Wester, K. “Where are all the Viking helmets?” Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, vol. 121, no. 17, June 2001, pp. 2023–27.

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Wicker, Nancy L. “Christianization, Female Infanticide, and the Abundance of Female Burials at Viking Age Birka in Sweden.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 21, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 245–62.

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Williams, Gareth. The Viking Ship. The British Museum Press, 2014.

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Williams, Mary Wilhelmine. Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age. The Macmillan company, 1920.

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Wolf, Kirsten. Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen. Sterling, 2013.

Other

Wolf, Kirsten. Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen. Sterling, 2013 and Mueller-Vollmer, Tristan. The Vikings: Facts and Fictions. ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018.

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Zoëga, Guđný. “A Family Revisited: The Medieval Household Cemetery of Keldudalur, North Iceland.” Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 48, no. 2, Routledge, July 2015, pp. 105–28, doi:10.1080/00293652.2015.1104382.

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Zori, Davide, and Byock, Jesse L. Viking Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project. Brepols, 2014.

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All 173 entries from the original bibliography.

About these bibliographies

The bibliographies and links were begun in 2019 with the support of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

The first is annotated with the major sources each new work draws on. None claims to be comprehensive.

Credits

Editors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Selina Heidinger Web Design & Technical Editor: Ryan E. Johnson Additional Research: Austin Quagleini With thanks to Migration: The 9th UM / University of Iceland Partnership Conference, From Iceland to the Americas, and The Afterlife of Eddas and Sagas.