This is 87 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where theContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Advocacy and Arbitration”
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1,300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway
By Sarah Kuta Archaeologists in Norway have discovered a 1,300-year-old ship burial that pre-dates the Viking Age. It’s now the oldest known ship burial in Scandinavia, according to a statement from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Researchers discovered the ship burial while investigating a large, grassy hill in the coastal community of Leka. Known as theContinue reading “1,300-Year-Old Ship Burial Unearthed in Norway”
Viking Age Iceland: Arbitration and Legalistic Feuding
This is 86 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where theContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Arbitration and Legalistic Feuding”