Abstract
In this book I am studying slavery in prehistoric (i.e. pre-c. 1100) Scandinavia, analysing all possible sources available: documents, runes, terminology, names, archaeology etc., something which has never been done before. The scope is very difficult due to the scarcity of sources, but the collected result indicates that slavery was a difficult-to-grasp phenomenon. A picture evolves with different dependencies between people in society, which can be illustrated by a model with free–unfree on one axis and high–low social status on the other. The book has taken more that a decade to write due to the complex material.
| Translated title of the contribution | Viking Slaves: Slavery in Scandinavia during the Late Iron Age and early Middle Ages |
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| Original language | Other |
| Place of Publication | Stockholm |
| Publisher | Atlantis |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789173534666 |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Jan 2012 |
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Viking Slaves: Slavery in Scandinavia during the Late Iron Age and early Middle Ages
Stefan Brink
4/02/12
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