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LEADER: 02442cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2011006132
003 DLC
005 20110930084330.0
008 110225s2011 ne a b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011006132
020 $a9789004205062 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aDL65$b.I34 2011
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245 00 $aIdeology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages :$bScandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes /$cby Gro Steinsland ... [et al.].
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2011.
300 $avi, 405 p. :$bill., maps. ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aThe Northern world,$x1569-1462 ;$vv. 52
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. 384-385) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / Gro Steinsland -- Origin myths and rulership : from the Viking Age ruler to the ruler of medieval historiography : continuity, transformations, and innovations / Gro Steinsland -- Kings, earls, and chieftains : rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland, c. 900-1300 / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- Jarla sögur Orkneyja : status and power of the earls of Orkney according to their sagas / Ian Beuermann -- An arena for higher powers : cult buildings and rulers in the late Iron Age and the early medieval period in the Malar region / Olof Sundqvist -- From wine in a goblet to milk in cowdung : the transformation of early Christian kings in three post-Viking tales from Ireland / Jan Erik Rekdal -- The warrior in Old Norse religion / Jens Peter Schjodt -- Oðinn, Valhöll, and the Einherjar : eschatological myth and ideology in the late Viking period / Anders Hultgard -- Family matters? : the cultus of the Scandinavian royal martyrs / Joanna A. Skorzewska -- Conclusions: The long adaptation of pagan and Christian ideologies of rulership / Ian Beuermann.
650 0 $aVikings$xHistory.
650 0 $aMiddle Ages.
650 0 $aKings and rulers$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aIdeology$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aScandinavia$xHistory$yTo 1397.
651 0 $aIceland$xHistory$yTo 1262.
651 0 $aIreland$xHistory$yTo 1603.
651 0 $aOrkney (Scotland)$xHistory.
651 0 $aFaroe Islands$xHistory.
700 1 $aSteinsland, Gro.