Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia

2019/12/03 by Dagfinn Skre, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient history #Archaeology #Byzantine Studies and History #Geography #Historical and Archaeological Studies #History #Medieval European History and Architecture

paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/9783110421101

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Abstract

This 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.

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• Rodulf, Herule king [wikipedia]

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