In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Icelands socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Author(s): Chris Callow
Series: The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 AD. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 80
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 420
City: Leiden
Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland: Dalir and the Eyjafjörður Region c.870–c.1265
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction
1 Debates and Frameworks
2 Landscapes and Seascapes
2 Frameworks of Power: Goðorð and Elite Marriage Networks c.1100 to c.1265
1 The Twelfth Century
2 From c.1200 to c.1265
3 Goðorð c.1100-c.1265
4 Goðorð in Dalir
5 Goðorð in Eyjafjörður and the North-East c.1150-c.1265
6 Conclusion
7 Elite Marriage Networks
8 Marriages in Dalir and Northern Snæfellsnes
9 Elite Marriages in Eyjafjörður and the North-East
3 Patterns of Power c.1100-c.1265
1 The Early Twelfth Century in Dalir Local Leaders and Political Networks in Þorgils saga ok Hafliða
2 Goðar and þingmenn in Sturlu saga
3 Dalir c.1185-c.1215
4 Sturla Sighvatsson and Þórðr Sturluson in Dalir
5 Dalir and Þórðr kakali Sighvatsson, c.1242-c.1250
6 Dalir c.1250-c.1265
7 Political Power in Dalir from c.1185-c.1265 Some Conclusions
8 The Eyjafjörður Region
9 Prestssaga Guðmundr góða and Guðmundar saga dýra
10 After Guðmundr dýri, c.1200-c.1265
11 Conclusion
4 Settlers and Settlement Mythologies in Landnámabók
1 Genealogical Charters and the Origins of Landnámabók and Íslendingasögur
2 Landnámabók
3 Sturlubók
4 Dalir and Northern Snæfellsnes
5 Eyjafjörður and the North-East
6 Conclusions
5 The Worlds of Snorri goði and Guðmundr ríki
1 The Dalir Íslendingasögur
2 Eyjafjörður and the North-East in the Íslendingasögur
3 Conclusions
6 Conclusion
Appendix: Sturlunga Saga
Bibliography
Index
