THE HIES OPEN LIBRARY
Mary Wilhelmine Williams • 1920
Category: HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age is a historical study of Scandinavian society and daily life during the Viking Age by historian Mary Wilhelmine Williams. The work examines the social institutions, customs, relationships, occupations, material culture, and religious practices of Scandinavian communities.
Its subjects include kinship and social organization, childhood and family life, marriage, the position of women, homesteads, agriculture, travel, trade, warfare, government, law and justice, social gatherings, runes, learning, religious practice, and death and burial.
This Open Library entry uses the 1920 edition of Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age, published in New York by The Macmillan Company.
As a work of early twentieth-century historical scholarship, its terminology, interpretations, assumptions, and conclusions reflect the scholarship and available evidence of its period. HIES therefore approaches the work critically and in conversation with primary sources, archaeological evidence, and later scholarship.
Scandinavian Society
Kinship & Family
Law & Government
Household & Daily Life
Trade & Economy
Religion & Custom
Material Culture
Viking-Age History
Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age provides a broad historical resource for the study of Scandinavian society, institutions, and daily life at Hákonarætt Institute of Eddic Studies.
It is especially relevant to courses addressing Old Norse history and society, saga literature, law and governance, household and kinship structures, religious practice, leadership, cultural context, and the interpretation of historical scholarship.
Because this work was published in 1920, students should distinguish Williams's historical interpretations from primary evidence and from conclusions reached through later historical, archaeological, linguistic, and religious-studies scholarship.
Inclusion in the Open Library does not mean that every chapter or section is assigned in every HIES course. Specific required readings are identified within individual courses on the HIES Learning Platform.
Title: Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age
Author: Mary Wilhelmine Williams
Publication Year: 1920
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Publication Place: New York
Resource Type: Historical Scholarship
Language: English