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• Title:Viking age Iceland / Jesse L. Byock.
  
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• Author/Creator:Byock, Jesse L.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Penguin, 2001.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DL352 .B963 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DL352 .B96 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Iceland--History--To 1262.
  
• Description:xxi, 447 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-430) and index.
  
• ISBN:0140291156
  
• Contents:1. An Immigrant Society
  2. Resources and Subsistence: Life on a Northern Island
  3. Curdled Milk and Calamities: An Inward-looking Farming Society
  4. A Devolving and Evolving Social Order
  5. The Founding of a New Society and the Historical Sources
  6. Limitations on a Chieftain's Ambitions, and Strategies of Feud and Law: Eyrbyggja saga
  7. Chieftain - Thingmen Relationships and Advocacy
  8. The Family and Sturlunga Sagas: Medieval Narratives and Modern Nationalism
  9. The Legislative and Judicial System
  10. Systems of Power: Advocates, Friendship, and Family Networks
  11. Aspects of Blood Feud
  12. Feud and Vendetta in a 'Great Village' Community
  13. Friendship, Blood Feud, and Power: The Saga of the People of Weapon's Fjord
  14. The Obvious Sources of Wealth
  15. Lucrative Sources of Wealth for Chieftains
  16. A Peaceful Conversion: The Viking Age Church
  17. Gragas: The 'Grey Goose' Law
  18. Bishops and Secular Authority: The Later Church
  19. Big Chieftains, Big Farmers and their Sagas at the End of the Free State
  App. 1. The Law-speakers
  App. 2. Bishops During the Free State
  App. 3. Turf Construction
  App. 4. A Woman Who Travelled from Vinland to Rome.