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Index
Cover
About The Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Note on Names, Spelling and Pronunciation
Introduction
Viking Age Iceland
1 An Immigrant Society
2 Resources and Subsistence: Life on a Northern Island
3 Curdled Milk and Calamities: An Inward-looking Farming Society
4 A Devolving and Evolving Social Order
5 The Founding of a New Society and the Historical Sources
6 Limitations on a Chieftain’s Ambitions, and Strategies of Feud and Law: Eyrbyggja saga
7 Chieftain- Thingmen Relationships and Advocacy
8 The Family and Sturlunga Sagas: Medieval Narratives and Modern Nationalism
9 The Legislative and Judicial System
10 Systems of Power: Advocates, Friendship, and Family Networks
11 Aspects of Blood Feud
12 Feud and Vendetta in a ‘Great Village’ Community
13 Friendship, Blood Feud, and Power: The Saga of the People of Weapon’s Fjord
14 The Obvious Sources of Wealth
15 Lucrative Sources of Wealth for Chieftains
16 A Peaceful Conversion: The Viking Age Church
17 Grágás: The ‘Grey Goose’ Law
18 Bishops and Secular Authority: The Later Church
19 Big Chieftains, Big Farmers and their Sagas at the End of the Free State
APPENDIX 1 The Law-speakers
APPENDIX 2 Bishops During the Free State
APPENDIX 3 Turf Construction
APPENDIX 4 A Woman Who Travelled from Vinland to Rome
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
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