LEADER 04067oam 2200565 450 001 996328047903316 005 20220711064012.0 010 $a3-11-042110-0 010 $a3-11-042115-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110421156 035 $a(CKB)4100000010137403 035 $a(OAPEN)1006933 035 $a(DE-B1597)451012 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589133 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110421101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5156646 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010137403 100 $a20210707d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia $eroyal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond /$fedited by Dagfinn Skre 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (545) 225 1 $aErgänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, ;$vBand 114 311 $a3-11-042579-3 327 $tFrontmatter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$t1. The History of the Norvegr 2000 BC-1000 AD --$t2. Intraregional Diversity. Approaching Changes in Political Topographies in South-western Norway through Burials with Brooches, AD 200-1000 --$t3. Rulership and Ruler's Sites in 1st-10th-century Scandinavia --$t4. Between Tribe and Kingdom - People, Land, and Law in Scandza AD 500-1350 --$t5. The Ship Graves on Kormt - and Beyond --$t6. The High-Medieval Royal Manor Complex --$t7. The Royal Edifice at Avaldsnes: A Palatium for the King or a Residence for his Canons? --$t8. Avaldsnes' Position in Norway in the 14th Century 330 $aThis book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the final section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries. 330 $aThis book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia's polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th-10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it's eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book's discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies. 410 0$aErgänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, ;$vBand 114. 606 $aVikings$xHistory 607 $aScandinavia$xHistory$yTo 1397 607 $aAvaldsnes (Norway)$xHistory 610 $aEarly kingship. 610 $aGermanic societies. 610 $aIron and Viking Age Scandinavia. 615 0$aVikings$xHistory. 676 $a948.022 686 $aNF 1100$2rvk 702 $aSkre$b Dagfinn 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996328047903316 996 $aRulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia$92263045 997 $aUNISA