The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300
by
Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000)
Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains,...