Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: Sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment

Davide Zori; Jesse Byock; Egill Erlendsson; Steve Martin; Thomas Wake; Kevin J. Edwards

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00048687

Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: Sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment

Davide Zori^*, Jesse Byock, Egill Erlendsson, Steve Martin, Thomas Wake, Kevin J. Edwards

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Abstract

The authors show that the principal correlates of feasting in Viking Age Iceland were beef and barley, while feasting itself is here the primary instrument of social action. Documentary references, ethnographic analogies, archaeological excavation and biological analyses are woven together to present an exemplary procedure for the recognition of feasting more widely.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	150-165
Number of pages	16
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	87
Issue number	335
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00048687
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013

Other keywords

Barley
Beer
Cattle
Chiefly politics
Feasting
First millennium AD
Hall
Iceland
Ninth century AD
Social control
Viking period

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