Tracing the Late Viking Age and Medieval Butter Economy:The View from Quoygrew, Orkney

• Main Authors: Critch, Aaron, Harland, Jennifer, Barrett, James
• Other Authors: Kershaw, Jane, Williams, Gareth
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: 15ref2021; Kershaw; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/tracing-the-late-viking-age-and-medieval-butter-economy(aa9a340c-fff7-4b8b-869e-a2c237256f90).html; https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1IN8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR5&lpg=PR5&dq=Silver,+Butter,+Cloth&source=bl&ots=Tr0rnSEZrj&sig=52G1-5wlCIwwt3axMGmpgAeHtyk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVg6rnpazfAhVPNOwKHbAMA98Q6AEwCXoECA4QAQ#v=onepage&q=Silver,%20Butter,%20Cloth&f=false

Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale intr...