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Viking Age: Jewelry
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Museums
National Museum of Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland
The Vikings of Bjornstad
The photos are courtesy of Bjornstad members Kay Tracy and Tory Parker.
- Many photographs taken at the National Museum of Iceland,
Reykjavik, Iceland in 2012. There are pictures of brooches, combs, Nålebinding items, Warp-Weighted Looms and many other items.
Top 9 Museums in Reykjavik NEW
- An articles with a brief description of each and a link.
Research
Michèle Hayeur Smith *****
Brown University, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Department Member
This 533-page, 50Mb PDF is the 2003 PhD thesis of Dr. Michèle Hayeur Smith for the University of Glasgow.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1000/1/2003smithphd.pdf
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1000/
Citation: Smith, Michèle Mariette Hayeur (2003) A social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
She has packed this beauty with research, history, drawings, tables, graphs, experiments and more useful information to a metalsmith interested in the Viking Age, especially Iceland like myself, that you will want to read every page and soak it in. Just stunning.
It's rather hard to find her work online, I've only found the articles on her Academia.edu page. Her work covers metalwork and fiber arts in Viking Iceland so I am very happy to have discovered her and I will keep an eye on her work.
Kevin P. Smith
Brown University, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Faculty Member
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Dr. Kevin P. Smith is in the same department as Dr. Michèle Hayeur Smith and have a bit of overlap.
Brown University's Circumpolar Program Faculty and Staff
- Some citations of publications, a few have PDFs of the article.
'Viking age and medieval craft in Iceland: *****
Adaptation to extraordinary living conditions on the edge of the Old World' (22-page PDF)
by Natascha Mehler
Arts and Crafts in Medieval Rural Environment
Ruralia VI
September 22-29, 2005
Szentendre - Dobogoko, Hungary
University of Iceland on Academia.edu page
- Go down to 'I' as well as look around for interesting topics
Icelandic Archaeology on Academia.edu page
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Here are a few links to academic published or presented work related to Iceland. There are free PDFs if you sign in.
Sigrid Cecilie Juel Hansen's Academia.edu page
- There are several PDF of her work available here.
The Viking Society Web Publications
- This page has several articles with Iceland(ic) in the title, also try their main library page.
wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com Blog
"general articles by W. D. Valgardson but also many about Iceland and Icelandic North American society and history"
They Accuse Us of Being Descended from Slaves:Settlement History, Cultural Syncretism, and the Foundation of Medieval Icelandic Identity (106 page, PDF)
by Ann C. Humphrey
Thesis, Senior Honors Program, 2009
History Department,
Rutgers University
Judging Vikings Ethics and morality in two Icelandic family sagas Laxdaela saga & Vatnsdaela saga (71 page, PDF)
by
Alice Spruit
Master thesis, 2011
Faculty of Humanities,
Utrecht University
"Why seem the characters' actions of the family sagas so irrational? When one looks at the actions and moral of Arthurian literature, one can clearly follow the characters' reasoning, but when looking at the family sagas the characters' reasoning is much harder to follow. To understand why it is so hard to understand the way characters act, one must analyse the actions the characters take in the sagas. In this thesis the actions of characters of two family sagas are analysed, according to where their loyalties lie." SOURCE
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