One of Us?: Negotiating Multiple Legal Identities across the Viking Diaspora
Migrations from mainland Scandinavia during the Viking age resulted in the establishment of colonies across the North Atlantic. Evidence of sustained sociocultural contact between these colonies has encouraged scholars to recognise the Viking world as a diaspora. Medieval Iceland, by way of its poet...
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ftleicesterunfig:oai:figshare.com:article/10140428 2023-05-15T16:49:34+02:00 One of Us?: Negotiating Multiple Legal Identities across the Viking Diaspora Pragya Vohra 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/One_of_Us_Negotiating_Multiple_Legal_Identities_across_the_Viking_Diaspora/10140428 unknown 2381/33334 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/One_of_Us_Negotiating_Multiple_Legal_Identities_across_the_Viking_Diaspora/10140428 All Rights Reserved Uncategorized IR content Text Journal contribution 2015 ftleicesterunfig 2021-11-11T19:50:37Z Migrations from mainland Scandinavia during the Viking age resulted in the establishment of colonies across the North Atlantic. Evidence of sustained sociocultural contact between these colonies has encouraged scholars to recognise the Viking world as a diaspora. Medieval Iceland, by way of its poets, writers, and learned men, was the locus of the memorialisation of this diaspora. Laws provide historians with a way in which to understand the creation of identity in a past society and the criteria that formed the basis of these identities. In the Viking world, where separate identities were emerging while still being connected through the diaspora, the manner in which identity was constructed and negotiated is of special interest. This paper uses Grágás, the medieval Icelandic law code, along with laws from other parts of the diaspora and Icelandic sagas to unpick how Viking diasporans negotiated identity, where they ‘belonged’, and where they were excluded. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Iceland North Atlantic University of Leicester: Figshare |
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Migrations from mainland Scandinavia during the Viking age resulted in the establishment of colonies across the North Atlantic. Evidence of sustained sociocultural contact between these colonies has encouraged scholars to recognise the Viking world as a diaspora. Medieval Iceland, by way of its poets, writers, and learned men, was the locus of the memorialisation of this diaspora. Laws provide historians with a way in which to understand the creation of identity in a past society and the criteria that formed the basis of these identities. In the Viking world, where separate identities were emerging while still being connected through the diaspora, the manner in which identity was constructed and negotiated is of special interest. This paper uses Grágás, the medieval Icelandic law code, along with laws from other parts of the diaspora and Icelandic sagas to unpick how Viking diasporans negotiated identity, where they ‘belonged’, and where they were excluded. |
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One of Us?: Negotiating Multiple Legal Identities across the Viking Diaspora |
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