This book is the first to explain Scandinavian expansion using this model, and presents the Viking Age in a new and exciting way for students of Vikings and medieval history.
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Beginning with an overview of Vikings and the Viking Age, the nature of the evidence available, and a full exploration of the concept of ‘diaspora’, the book then provides a detailed demonstration of the appropriateness of the term to the world peopled by Scandinavians. Judith Jesch considers all of these connections, and highlights in detail significant forms of cultural contact including gender, beliefs and identities. This on-going contact throughout half a millennium can be traced in the laws, literatures, material culture and even environment of the various regions of the Viking diaspora. Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared heritage and culture that connected them. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations.
The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the east as a form of ‘diaspora’. Visible gender – clothing and accoutrementsĬult and beliefs in Scandinavia – place-namesĬult and beliefs in Scandinavia – archaeologyĬase study – cult leaders and cult buildingsĬase study – Sigurðr Fáfnisbani in the Viking AgeĬase study – Sigurðr Fáfnisbani in the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesĬase study – Scandinavian identities in northern EnglandĬase study – migration, diaspora and Icelandic identity ‘The possibility of a distinctive creative, enriching life in tolerant host countries’ ‘A sense of co-responsibility with co-ethnic members in other countries’ ‘A troubled relationship with host societies’ ‘A strong ethnic group consciousness sustained over a long time’ ‘A return movement or at least a continuing conversation’ ‘An idealization of the supposed ancestral home’ ‘A collective memory and myth about the homeland’ ‘Alternatively, the expansion from a homeland in search of work, in pursuit of trade or to further colonial ambitions’ ‘Dispersal from an original homeland, often traumatically’ The long, broad Viking Age – continuities in time and space People and environment – living in the landscape 1 Vikings and their Ages: definitions and evidenceĢ The Viking world: geography and environment
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