A Falconer's Ritual: A study of the cognitive and spiritual dimensions of pre-Christian Scandinavian falconry

• Main Author: Bellamy-Dagneau, Karyn, 1986-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Íslenskar bókmenntir; Víkinga- og miðaldafræði; Tamningar; Norðurlönd; Fálki; Falconer; fálki
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/21042

Working from the premise that falconry was introduced in Scandinavia from an eastern origin sometime in the course of the 6th century AD, this paper suggests that the practice may have harboured cognitive and spirituals dimensions unshared by the rest of the feudal, Christian European kingdoms. Falc...