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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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Ármann Jakobsson. “Snorri and His Death: Youth, Violence, and Autobiography in Medieval Iceland.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 75, no. 3, U of Illinois P, Oct. 2003, pp. 317–40.

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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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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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Burrows, Hannah. “Cold Cases: Law and Legal Detail in the Íslendingasögur.” Parergon, vol. 26, no. 1, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2009, pp. 35–56, doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0095.

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Byock, Jesse L. “Saga Form, Oral Prehistory, and the Icelandic Social Context.” New Literary History, vol. 16, no. 1, Johns Hopkins UP, Oct. 1984, pp. 153–73, doi:10.2307/468780.

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Byock, Jesse L. “Governmental Order in Early Medieval Iceland.” Viator, vol. 17, University of California Press Books Division, Jan. 1986.

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Byock, Jesse L., et al. “Viking Age Iceland.” European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 6, no. 3, 1 Dec. 2003, pp. 328–29.

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Callow, Chris. “Reconstructing the Past in Medieval Iceland.” Early Medieval Europe, vol. 14, no. 3, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Aug. 2006, pp. 297–324, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0254.2006.00184.x.

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

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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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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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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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Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir. “The Use of Geothermal Energy at a Chieftan’s Farm in Medieval Iceland.” Archaeology International, vol. 7, Ubiquity Press, Oct. 2003, pp. 22–26, doi:10.5334/ai.0707.

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Hall, Mark. “Viking Age Ironworking: The Evidence from Old Norse Literature.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, vol. 79, Jan. 1995, pp. 195–203.

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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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Helle, Knut. “Viking Culture.” The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, vol. 1, Cambridge UP, 2003, pp. 121–46, doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521472999.008.

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Jochens, Jenny. “Old Norse Magic and Gender.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, U of Illinois P, July 1991, p. 305.

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Johnni Langer. “Viking Age Iceland.” Revista de História, vol. 0, no. 149, Universidade de São Paulo, Dec. 2003, pp. 267–71, doi:10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i149p267-271.

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Kári Gíslason. “Within and Without Family in the Icelandic sagas.” Parergon, vol. 26, no. 1, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2009, pp. 13–33, doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0145

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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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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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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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McTurk, Rory. “Archaeology of Economy and Society.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 7–26, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch2.

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McTurk, Rory. “Geography and Travel.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 119–35, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch8.

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McTurk, Rory. “Historical Background: Iceland 870–1400.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 136–54, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch9.

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McTurk, Rory. “Historiography and Pseudo‐History.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 155–72, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch10.

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McTurk, Rory. “Language.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 173–89, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch11.

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McTurk, Rory. “Laws.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 223–44, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch14.

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McTurk, Rory. “Manuscripts and Palaeography.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 245–64, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch15.

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McTurk, Rory. “Orality and Literacy in the Sagas of Icelanders.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 285–301, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch17.

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McTurk, Rory. “Pagan Myth and Religion.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 302–19, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch18.

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McTurk, Rory. “Prose of Christian Instruction.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 338–53, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch20.

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McTurk, Rory. “Rhetoric and Style.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 354–71, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch21.

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McTurk, Rory. “Runes.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 403–26, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch24.

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McTurk, Rory. “Short Prose Narrative ( Þáttr ).” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 462–78, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch27.

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McTurk, Rory. “Skaldic Poetry.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 479–502, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch28.

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McTurk, Rory. “Social Institutions.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 503–17, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch29.

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McTurk, Rory. “Women in Old Norse Poetry and Sagas.” A Companion to Old Norse‐Icelandic Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 518–35, doi:10.1002/9780470996867.ch30.

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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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Meijer, Jan. “Corrections in Viking Age Rune-Stone Inscriptions.” Arkiv För Nordisk Filologi, vol. 110, C. W. K. Gleerup, etc., Jan. 1995.

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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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Moran, Elizabeth. “‘Devils Liquore’ and ‘Virgins Milke’: Fashion, Fetishism and Jonson’s Line.” Parergon, vol. 26, no. 1, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2009, pp. 141–73, doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0141.

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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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Overing, Gillian. “A Body in Question: Aging, Community, and Gender in Medieval Iceland.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, Duke UP, NC & IL, Apr. 1999, pp. 211–25.

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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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Per Bruun. “The Viking Ship.” Journal of Coastal Research, vol. 13, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1282–1289.

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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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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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Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad. “The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic Countries: Some Reflections.” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 13, The Donner Institute, Jan. 1990, pp. 256–72,

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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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Sayers, William. “Gender Ambiguity in Medieval Iceland: Legal Framework and Saga Dynamics.” Scandinavian - Canadian Studies, vol. 14, Assn for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, Jan. 2002, pp. 1–27.

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Schnurbein, Stefanie, and Currid, Brian. “Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps.” History of Religions, vol. 43, no. 2, Nov. 2003, pp. 116–38, doi:10.1086/423007.

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Self, Kathleen M. “Remembering Our Violent Conversion: Conflict in the Icelandic Conversion Narrative.” Religion, vol. 40, no. 3, Taylor & Francis Group, July 2010, pp. 182–92, doi:10.1016/j.religion.2009.10.011.

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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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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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Stigsørensen, Marie Louise. “Gender, Matrial Culture, and Identity in the Viking Diaspora.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, no. 5, Jan. 2009, pp. 253–69, doi:10.1484/j.vms.1.100680.

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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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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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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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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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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.