Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia

In the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language. Everyday norms are mainly conveyed orally or ritually, and rarely in a written or material shape. Despite this, the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the medieval North...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641892404
• ISBN13: 9781641892407
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"