Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches

Kershaw, Jane

doi:10.1484/j.vms.1.100682

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“…59 59 J. F. Kershaw, ‘Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo‐Scandinavian Brooches’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia , 5 (2009): 295–325. …”

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Viking Ethnicities: A Historiographic Overview

Downham

2012

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The ‘Viking Age’ is well established in popular perception as a period of dramatic change in European history. The range of viking activities from North America to the Middle East has excited the interest of many commentators. Vikings are variously regarded as blood thirsty barbarians or civilised entrepreneurs; founders of nations or anarchic enemies. But how cohesive was the identity of the ‘Vikings’ and how did they see themselves? In recent years the answer to this question has been evaluated from a range of perspectives. Established paradigms (often situated within a nationalist framework of thought) have come under greater scrutiny and new ideas have entered the debate. This paper will review some trends in the historiography of viking ethnicities and cultural identities in the period 800–1000 AD. This overview also highlights the value of comparative analysis of human migrations to the field of Viking Studies.

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“…59 59 J. F. Kershaw, ‘Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo‐Scandinavian Brooches’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia , 5 (2009): 295–325. …”

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Viking Ethnicities: A Historiographic Overview

Downham

2012

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“…These modified pieces find their wider context in a rapidly proliferating corpus of metal-detected finds of Scandinavian costume jewellery from the English Danelaw, dominated by trefoil and disc brooches which reached their height of popularity in southern Scandinavia during the late ninth and tenth centuries (Margeson, 1996;Leahy & Paterson, 2001). While some of these brooches display indications that they were made in acculturated 'Anglo-Scandinavian' communities in eastern England, recent research by Kershaw (2009) presents a persuasive case that a significant proportion of this metalwork was transported to England on the clothing of Scandinavian women spanning multiple generations of immigrants. Although impossible to prove, it seems probable that adapted Carolingian metalwork recovered from the Danelaw similarly reached England by way of southern Scandinavia, a proposition supported by the fact that this region of the Viking homelands has produced the highest concentration of modified Carolingian metalwork (Wamers, 1985: 73-79, Karte 19).…”

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“…Viewed from a pan-North Sea perspective, much of the recent research on Viking-age metalwork has been directed at reconstructing one, albeit powerful, stream of seaborne cultural interactionnamely that between Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia. As a consequence, major progress has been made in establishing how that reciprocal cultural encounter was reflected in the form and style of different categories of personal adornment, whether dating to the period of Viking colonialism in the later ninth and tenth centuries (Margeson, 1996;Thomas, 2000;Leahy & Paterson, 2001; Kershaw, 2009), or of Danish imperialism in the later tenth and early eleventh centuries (Graham-Campbell, 1992;Pedersen, 1997Pedersen, , 2004Williams, 1997;Owen, 2001).…”

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Carolingian Culture in the North Sea World: Rethinking the Cultural Dynamics of Personal Adornment in Viking-Age England

Thomas

2012

Eur. j. archaeol.

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Boosted by a proliferation in metal-detected finds, categories of personal adornment now constitute a vital archaeological source for interpreting Viking-age cultural interaction in the North Sea region. Previous research in England has explored the potential of this metalwork in relation to the formation of ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ identity, but without due consideration of a wider spectrum of cultural influences. This article redresses the balance by shifting attention to twenty-eight belt fittings derived from richly embellished baldrics, equestrian equipment, and waist belts manufactured on the Frankish continent during the period of Carolingian hegemony in the later eighth and ninth centuries AD. The metalwork is classified and then contextualized in order to track import mechanisms and to assess the impact of Carolingian culture on the northern peripheries of the Frankish empire. The main conclusion is that the adoption, adaptation, and strategic manipulation of Carolingian/northern Frankish identity formed an embedded component of cultural dynamics in Viking-age England, scrutiny of which sheds new light on patterns of interconnectivity linking peoples of the North Sea world.

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“…southern Suffolk and Essex) suggests that this pattern is genuine. The concentration of finds in northern East Anglia is striking, as this region is often considered external to the core area of Scandinavian settlement (although see Kershaw 2009: 302). Significantly, bullion finds are scarce in the central Midlands.…”

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