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Thraldom : a history of slavery in the Viking age /

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"Thraldom, the old Scandinavian word for slavery, is an elusive phenomenon characterized by different conditions of dependencies and with fluid transitions between being free and unfree; a person could be at once socially respected but still unfree; you could voluntarily go into a slavery; you...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brink, Stefan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Slavery > Scandinavia > History.
Vikings > Social life and customs.
Vikings > Mœurs et coutumes.
Ancient.
HISTORY.
Scandinavia.
Europe.
Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Slavery
Vikings > Social life and customs
Scandinavia
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery in Europe during antiquity and the first millennium
  • Scandinavian slavery
  • Where did the slaves come from?
  • Thralls in Old Norse poetry and sagas
  • Thralls in runic inscriptions
  • Terms for thralls and their meanings
  • How were thralls used?
  • Evidence for thralls in Scandinavian place-names
  • How were thralls identified?
  • Thralls' names in Scandinavia
  • The special case of Älmeboda parish in southern Småland
  • Thralls in the archaeological material
  • Can we excavate slavery?
  • The rise and fall of Scandinavian thraldom
  • when did slavery appear in Scandinavia?
  • The status of slaves in Prehistoric Scandinavian society.