Medieval castles and castle mounds on the islands south of Fyn

Skaarup, Jørgen

doi:10.1080/0108464x.1995.10590091

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“…Also noteworthy is the concentration of apparent executions on Langeland. There are no known Viking Age settlements of a character indicating a central authority on the island where the Stengade I, II and Bogøvej burial fields are situated; however, there are numerous medieval buildings and castles in the area (Skaarup 1995). The strategic importance of Langeland that they reflect probably goes back to the Viking Age, and the executions may relate to rigid political control of the frontier island.…”

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Violence as a Lens to Viking Societies: A Comparison of Norway and Denmark

Bill,

Jacobson,

Nagel

et al. 2023

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Comparing Viking Age Norway and Denmark, the article examines the primary proposition that as centers of authority become progressively more robust, violence will be proportionately contained. The article introduces a new approach in using indications of violence as a focal point to elicit broader social practices. The disciplines employed in this study – archaeology, osteology, philology, and sociology – are used together in the study of covariance of different indicators across a societal range. The indicators for assessing violence include skeletal trauma and weapon frequency. For assessing the steepness of the social pyramid, we use runestones, indicating variations in social stratification, and monumental constructions as a measure of power to command labor. Among the findings: weapons and interpersonal violence in Norway was much more widespread than in Denmark, and the social pyramid in Denmark was progressively steeper and more complex than in Norway. “Official” executions accounted for the preponderance of violence in Denmark, while rare in Norway. Denmark was evidently a more “civilianized” society than Norway. The comparative research supports the primary proposition. The research, furthermore, suggests that Denmark and Norway were sociologically distinct societies, which accords with recent findings that the respective regions displayed distinct, though still similar, genetic profiles.

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confidence: 99%