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
p120 Ch05: Belief
p156 Ch06: Bodies
- p180 .ch07 n24
p187 Ch07: Home
p220 Ch08: Play
p252 Ch09: Unfreedom
p277 Ch10: Endings