Bibliography II of IV

Scholarship on Medieval Icelandic Culture

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Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir. Property and Virginity: The Christianization of Marriage in Medieval Iceland, 1200-1600. Aarhus UP, 2010.

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Anderson, Joel. “Disseminating and Dispensing Canon Law in Medieval Iceland.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi, no. 128, 2013, pp. 79–95.

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Andrén, Anders. Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives. Nordic Academic Press, 2014.

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Ármann Jakobsson, and Fredrik Heinemann. A Sense of Belonging: Morkinskinna and Icelandic Identity, c.1220. UP of Southern Denmark, 2014.

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Brink, Stefan., and Price, Neil S. The Viking World. Routledge, 2012.

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Bryan, Eric. “Prospective Memory of Death in Old Norse and Icelandic Sources.” Neophilologus, Springer Nature B.V., Apr. 2019, pp. 1–18, doi:10.1007/s11061-019-09609-6.

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Bryndís Sverrisdóttir. Bláklædda konan: ný rannsókn á fornu kumli = Bundled-up in blue: the re-investigation of a Viking grave. Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, 2015.

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Burns, Annika, et al. “Micromorphological and Chemical Investigation of Late-Viking Age Grave Fills at Hofstaðir, Iceland.” Geoderma, vol. 306, Elsevier B.V., Nov. 2017, pp. 183–94, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.06.021.

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Byock, Jesse L.. Viking Language. Jules William Press, 2013.

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Callow, Chris and Charles Evans. “The Mystery of Plague in Medieval Iceland.” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 42, no. 2, Routledge, Mar. 2016, pp. 1–31, doi:10.1080/03044181.2016.1149503.

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Carroll, Jayne, et al. The Vikings in Britain and Ireland. British Museum, 2014.

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Carter, Tara. Iceland’s Networked Society: Revealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity. Brill, 2015.

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Cipolla, Craig. “A Viking’s Life.” ROM, vol. 50, no. 2, Royal Ontario Museum, Oct. 2017, pp. 24–2.

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Clark, David. Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga. 1st ed., Oxford UP, 2012.

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Cormack, Margaret. “Possible Christian Place-Names in Medieval Iceland.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, no. 6, Jan. 2010, pp. 31–82, doi:10.1484/j.vms.1.102136.

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Elisabeth Astrup, Eva, and Martens, Irmelin. “Studies of Viking Age Swords: Metallography and Archaeology.” Gladius, vol. 31, no. 0, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2011, pp. 203–06, doi:10.3989/gladius.2011.0009.

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Eriksen, Marianne Hem. Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement. Oxbow Books, 2014.

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Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva. Body and Soul in Old Norse Culture. 2016.

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Evans, Gareth Lloyd. Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2019, pp. 1–170, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198831242.001.0001.

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Fedrigo, Anna, et al. “Neutron Imaging Study of ‘pattern-Welded’ Swords from the Viking Age.” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 10, no. 6, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Sept. 2018, pp. 1249–63, doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0454-5.

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Fransen, Lilli, et al. Medieval Garments Reconstructed Norse Clothing Patterns. Aarhus UP, 2011.

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Firth, Hugh. “Coercion, Vengeance, Feud and Accommodation: Homicide in Medieval Iceland.” Early Medieval Europe, vol. 20, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2012, pp. 139–75, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0254.2012.00339.x.

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Garipzanov, Ildar H., and Bonté, Rosalind. Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age. Brepols Publishers n.v., 2014.

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Goeres, Erin Michelle. The Poetics of Commemoration: Skaldic Verse and Social Memory, c. 890-1070. First edition., Oxford UP, 2015.

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Graham-Campbell, James. Viking Art. Thames & Hudson, 2013.

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Graham-Campbell, et al. Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age. First edition., Oxford UP, 2019.

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Harrison, Ramona. “Small holder farming in early medieval Iceland.” Archaeologia Islandica, Jan. 2010.

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Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte, et al. “A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed by Genomics.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 164, no. 4, 2017, pp. 853–60, doi:10.1002/ajpa.23308.

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Hermann, Pernille, et al. Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture. Brepols, 2014.

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Hupfauf, Peter R. Tracing Their Tracks: Identification of Nordic Styles from the Early Middle Ages to the End of the Viking Period. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Jensen, Bo. Viking Age Amulets in Scandinavia and Western Europe. Archaeopress, 2010.

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Jesch, Judith. Viking Poetry of Love and War. The British Museum, 2013.

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Jesch, Judith. The Viking Diaspora. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Jennbert, Kristina. Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion. Nordic Academic Press, 2011.

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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300. Cornell UP, 2017.

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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Thomas Småberg. Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia c.1000-1800. Brepols, 2013.

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Kedwards, Dale. “Cartography and Culture in Medieval Iceland.” Imago Mundi, vol. 67, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2015, pp. 120–21, doi:10.1080/03085694.2015.974986.

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Kerekes, Carrie B. “Discovering Law: Hayekian Competition in Medieval Iceland.” Griffith Law Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 432–47.

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Kershaw, Jane F. “Brooch Use, Culture, and Gender.” Viking Identities, Oxford UP, 2013, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639526.003.0005.

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Kershaw, Jane F. “Introduction: Economy, Currency, and Value in the Viking Age.” Silver, Butter, Cloth, Oxford UP, 2018, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198827986.003.0001.

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Klæsøe, Iben Skibsted. Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.

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Koszowski, Maciej. “Medieval Iceland: The Influence of Culture and Tradition on Law.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 86, no. 3, U of Illinois P, Dec. 2014, pp. 333–51, doi:10.5406/scanstud.86.3.0333.

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Larrington, Carolyne. “Old Norse Women’s Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds.” Medium Aevum, vol. 80, no. 2, Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1 July 2011, pp. 363–64.

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Lawing, Sean. “The Place of the Evil: Infant Abandonment in Old Norse Society.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 85, no. 2, U of Illinois P, July 2013, pp. 133–50, doi:10.5406/scanstud.85.2.0133.

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Leonard, S. P. (Stephen Pax). Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

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Maher, Ruth Ann. Landscapes of Gender, Age and Cosmology: Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland. Archaeopress, 2013.

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Maravall Buckwalter, Laura, and Baten, Joerg. “Valkyries: Was Gender Equality High in the Scandinavian Periphery Since Viking Times? Evidence from Enamel Hypoplasia and Height Ratios.” Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier B.V., 2019, doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2019.05.007.

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Mehler, Natascha, et al. “The Sound of Silence—a Ceramic Horn and Its Role in Monasticism in Late Medieval Iceland.” Early Music, vol. 46, no. 4, Oxford UP, Dec. 2018, pp. 551–60, doi:10.1093/em/cay053.

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Meylan, Nicolas. Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance. Brepols, 2014.

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Milek, Karen. “The Role of Pit Houses and Gendered Spaces on Viking-Age Farmsteads in Iceland.” Medieval Archaeology, vol. 56, Jan. 2012, pp. 85–130.

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Milek, Karen B., and Roberts, Howell M. “Integrated Geoarchaeological Methods for the Determination of Site Activity Areas: A Study of a Viking Age House in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Report).” Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, no. 4, Elsevier B.V., Apr. 2013.

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Mundal, Else, and Doležalová, L. “Memory Of The Past And Old Norse Identity.” The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages, vol. 4, 2010, pp. 463–72, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004179257.i-500.86.

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Orkisz, Jan H. “Pole-Weapons in the Sagas of Icelanders: a Comparison of Literary and Archaeological Sources.” Acta Periodica Duellatorum, vol. 4, no. 1, Sciendo, Apr. 2016, pp. 177–212, doi:10.1515/apd-2016-0006.

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Orning, Hans Jacob. “The Magical Reality of the Late Middle Ages: Exploring the World of the Fornaldarsögur.” Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 35, no. 1, Taylor & Francis, Feb. 2010, pp. 3–20, doi:10.1080/03468750903381639.

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O’Sullivan, Joanne. “Strung Along: Re-Evaluating Gendered Views of Viking-Age Beads.” Medieval Archaeology, vol. 59, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2015, pp. 73–86, doi:10.1080/00766097.2015.1119384.

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Patel, Samir. “Viking Finery.” Archaeology, vol. 67, no. 2, Archaeological Institute of America, Mar. 2014, pp. 12–12.

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Pedersen, Anne. Dead Warriors in Living Memory: A Study of Weapon and Equestrian Burials in Viking-Age Denmark, AD 800-1000. National Museum, 2014.

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Peterson, Paul R. “Old Norse Nicknames: Origins and Terminology.” Names, Routledge, Apr. 2018, pp. 1–10, doi:10.1080/00277738.2018.1452886.

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Poulsen, Bjørn., and Sindbæk, Søren M. Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia. Brepols, 2011.

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Price, Neil, et al. “Viking Warrior Women? Reassessing Birka Chamber Grave Bj.581.” Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 367, Cambridge UP, Feb. 2019, pp. 181–98, doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.258.

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Raffield, Ben. “The Slave Markets of the Viking World: Comparative Perspectives on an ‘Invisible Archaeology.’” Slavery & Abolition, Routledge, Mar. 2019, pp. 1–24, doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1592976.

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Raffield, Ben, et al. “Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, vol. 13, Jan. 2017, pp. 165–209, doi:10.1484/J.VMS.5.114355.

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Raffield, Ben. “Ingroup Identification, Identity Fusion and the Formation of Viking War Bands.” World Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2016, pp. 1–16, doi:10.1080/00438243.2015.1100548.

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Ranković, Slavica, et al. Along the Oral-Written Continuum: Types of Texts, Relations, and Their Implications. Brepols, 2010.

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Ricketts, Philadelphia. High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Brill, 2010.

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Riddell, Scott, et al. “Cereal Cultivation as a Correlate of High Social Status in Medieval Iceland.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 27, no. 5, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Sept. 2018, pp. 679–96, doi:10.1007/s00334-017-0665-4.

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Schorn, Brittany. Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.

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Short, William R. Icelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas. McFarland & Co., 2010.

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Sif Ríkharðsdóttir. Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts. D. S. Brewer, 2017.

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Skoglund, G., et al. “Viking and Early Middle Ages Northern Scandinavian Textiles Proven to Be Made with Hemp.” Scientific Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, Oct. 2013, p. 2686, doi:10.1038/srep02686.

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Smith, Michèle Hayeur. “Vaðmál and Cloth Currency in Viking and Medieval Iceland.” Silver, Butter, Cloth, Oxford UP, 2018, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198827986.003.0014.

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Stahl, Pierre-Brice. “Nicolas Meylan, Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland. The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance.” Revue de l’histoire des religions, no. 3, Sept. 2017, pp. 546–49.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Steinsland, Gro. Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes. Brill, 2011.

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Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir and Cecilia Collins. “Cases of Hydatid Disease in Medieval Iceland.” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 21, no. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., July 2011, pp. 479–86, doi:10.1002/oa.1155.

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Stephenson, I. P. (Ian P.). Viking Warfare. Amberley Pub., 2012.

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Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. Old Norse Women’s Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D. S. Brewer, 2011.

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Sverrir Jakobsson. “From Reciprocity to Manorialism: On the Peasant Mode of Production in Medieval Iceland.” Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 38, no. 3, Routledge, July 2013, pp. 273–95, doi:10.1080/03468755.2013.803498.

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Turco, Jeffrey. New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia. Cornell UP, 2015.

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

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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.