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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 Alfred king of Wessex

  • p22 Carolingian 800-887 AD

  • p23 King Robert Duke of Normandy 911 AD

  • p23 Newfoundland Seasonal camps ca. 1000 AD

  • p24 Rus scandanavian people Novgorod north to Kyiv south

  • 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 fannfluga fuðflogi cunnus, vulva

  • 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

  • p116 Folkvang afterlife ruled by Freya

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  • p120 Ch05: Belief

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  • p156 Ch06: Bodies

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  • p187 Ch07: Home

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  • p220 Ch08: Play

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  • p252 Ch09: Unfreedom

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  • p277 Ch10: Endings

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