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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

• 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

• p190 Eric the Red expelled from Iceland for murder

• p191 east Greenland uninhabitable, katabatic piteraq winds 3/4 of year

• p194 walrus ivory

• p195 Norse Greenland peak population a few thousand at best

• p195 heimr p205 means both 'home' and 'world'

• p205 sail 25x25m took two years for a woman to weave

• p205 note 24 p314: Dommasnes, L.H. "Spun on a Wheel were Women's Hearts" 2008

• p207 Norwegian Forest Cat large body thick pelt

• p207 "spitz variety" like spitz dog?

• p207 large 1.5m x 1.5m boundary walls legally required

• p208 shieling cattle pasture hut

• p211 pannage, pigs foraging in woods

• p211 on a hiding to nothing = no chance of success

• p211 hooded seals

• p212 capelin arctic fish

• p212 grindadráp whale hunt

• p215 Late Dorset culture

• p216 Greenland became colder at the end of the 1300s

• p217 coldest period for a millenium

• p217 Farm under the Sand occupied until 1400

• p219 archaeologists find wood from loom 1.5 meters above buried farm

• p220 Ch08: Play

• p221 uncompleted bowed musical instrument from 10th century Hedeby

• p221 Rognvald ruler of Orkney until 1158

• p222 harpa - like a lyre

• p226 shawm

• p232 wood-bears : relief-carved bears in walls, can't find example picture
• p234 Four are hanging, four are walking, two point the way out, two ward the dogs off, one ever dirty dangles behind ut.
  • A riddle about a cow

• p236 Nine Men's Morris board game

• p241 astragali sheep ankle bones

• p248 animal skin throwing piggy in the middle

• p250 Finnboga saga ramma

• p250 ells length from fingertips to elbow

• p251 Icelandic power lifting (weightlifting)

• p252 Ch09: Unfreedom

• p253 20% to 30% of Scandinavians enslaved around the year 1000

• p254 thrall - Scandinavian slave

• p256 Vita Rimberti, life of 9th century Saint Rimbert

• p262 The Story of Haki and Hekja

• p264 wooden distaff

• p277 Ch10: Endings

• p290 King Alexander III of Scotland vs King Haakon IV of Norway

• p294 ogam rune alphabet

• p297 Harald Hardrada in 1066

• p297 Hakon Hakonarson in 1263

• p297 similar riddle to page 234 above

• p299 Herjolfsnes artifacts from Greenland

• p299 described in Woven into the Earth 2004 by Else Østergård

• p302 Plague reached Greenland in 1349, killed 1/3

• p303 Hoods with liripipes, long-tailed hood

• p304 wadmal undyed Scandinavian wool fabric

• p305 last reports from Greenland, a witch-burning in 1407, a wedding in 1408
• p305 history is dates when important things happened to important people, artifacts tell us of lives lived