A Viking Age political economy from soil core tephrochronology

• Main Author: Catlin, Kathryn A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Massachusetts Boston 2011
• Subjects: Archaeology|Icelandic & Scandinavian literature|Economic theory; Langholt; Skagafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1494022

Saga accounts describe Viking Age Iceland as an egalitarian society of independent household farms. By the medieval period, the stateless, agriculturally marginal society had become highly stratified in exploitative landlord-tenant relationships. Classical economists place the origin of differential...