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This project re-evaluates Scandinavian history during the Viking Age by analyzing contemporary sources instead of relying on later sagas. It aims to provide a more accurate understanding of historical identities and the formation of early kingdoms in Scandinavia.
Traditional narratives of Scandinavian history generally see the early Middle Ages, or ‘Viking Age’, as the period in which the three kingdoms of Norway, Denmark and Sweden were created (or ‘unified’).
Such narratives draw mainly on the 13th-century Icelandic Sagas, written several centuries after the events they portray.
This project will challenge these narratives by developing and testing two hypotheses:1) that contemporary and near-contemporary sources, rather than the sagas, should provide…
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