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Embers Of The Hands
Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Eleanore Barraclough . 2024 . 948.022 BAR . Bvt Lib
- p01 Prologue: Kindling
p10 Ch01: Introduction
p12 kenning something familiar described metaphorically
- gold becomes "embers of the hands" (p24)
p20 Danevirke Danish defensive earthwork across Jutland
p22 Carolingian 800-887 AD
p23 King Robert Duke of Normandy 911 AD
p23 Newfoundland Seasonal camps ca. 1000 AD
- p24 see .p12 note
p25 St. Brice's Day massacre 1022 mass killing of Danes in England
p25 North Sea Empire 1013-1042
p26 Greenland Viking age until 1500
- p27 Scandinavian cows/sheep/goats did well, pigs did not due to freezing winters
p28 Hoards of silver on Swedish island Gotland, 700 found to date
- p33 texts about "repulsive pagan" Norse and Vikings written by Christian/Islamic outsiders, and later Nordic Christians
p36 Danish king Harald Bluetooth converted to Catholic Christianity in 1960s
- p36 Viking raiders brought home Christian slaves
- p37 Sweden officially converted to Christianity in twelfth century
p47 Ch02: Beginnings
p49 Futhark is the Norse rune "alphabet"
p51 tesserae plural of tessera, a small tile in a mosaic
p51 sceattas tiny gram-weight silver coins, cm diameter
p53 hnefatafl gridded board game, rules lost to history
p56 Heimskringla Icelandic king saga written by Snorri Sturluson ca. 1230 AD
p67 Ch03: Love
p73 Urnes stave church Norway 61°17′53″N 7°19′21″E
p74 Old Norse insult words ergi > perverted ... anal sex? andsorðinn > penetrated, sodomized
p75 Icelandic Homily Book lists penances, such as 10 years of flogging for homosexuality
- p78 no records of "women's knowledge"
p81 disir protective female spirits
p83 virginal Saint Margaret Christian saint of childbirth
p84 Margrétar saga
- p89 dense waterlogged soil preserves organic matter, birchbark documents
p89 >1000 birchbark documents in the claggy (sticky lumpy) mud of Novgorod
p089 Onfim boy who decorated birchbark documents
p92 Ch04: Travel
p092 Gokstad ship replicated for 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
p102 Landnámabók 25 ships set out for Greenland, 11 turned back or were lost at sea
- p103 Greenland walrus tusks white gold of Viking age, traded as far as Kyiv and Novgorod
- p104 Walrus hide for strong ropes. Walruses could weigh two tons, 3 meters length
p107 hundreds of items from melting Lendbreen ice patch
- p107 juniper wood bit stopped young animal from suckling all of mother's milk
p109 skis eight ells long, perhaps 8x60cm or 15? feet
p112 petroglyph on Rødøya island vandalized by teenagers
p113 Poetic Edda and Snorri's Prose Edda
p115 Fjallkonan: The Mountain Woman remains found in 2004 Iceland
p117 Hel is Norse/Germanic underworld where the dead reside, not "hell" where souls are punished
p119 Ragnarok pagan end of the world
p120 Ch05: Belief
- p121 Reykjavik means smoke bay
p151 religious syncretism mixing of two belief systems
p156 Ch06: Bodies
- p157 Old English "Danish" means Nordic region, not just Denmark
p158 [ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle | 865 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ]] œ
- p158 micel hœðen here "great heathen army"
p158 Guthrum defeated by Alfred, converts to Christianity, becomes king of East Anglia
p159 Cnut 1016 King of England
p160 Harald Fairhair King of Norway 872 to 930
- Sagas say Harald would not comb hair until he commanded all Norway, hence Harald Tanglehair
- p162 hair cut the Scandi-chic way, shaved in back long and shaggy in front
p162 Norman (Northmen) hairstyle on the Bayeux Tapestry
p164 St. Brice's Day massacre some say all Danes in England, some say just invaders and their families
p166 Togtet (The Raid) exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark
- p167 Open-air bathing in Iceland hot springs
- p169 Muslim ambassador re. Rus: They are the filthiest of God's creatures. The do not clean themselves ...
- p171 Viking male teeth filed, grooved horizontally or diagonally, especially on Gotland island
p173 Oseberg ship burial
p177 Lloyds Bank Coprolite (turd) meat, bread, intestinal worms
p184 spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia a rare form of dwarfism
p187 Ch07: Home
p220 Ch08: Play
p252 Ch09: Unfreedom
p277 Ch10: Endings