HIST 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edda, Skald, Vikings
17 Dec 2015
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Good source to collective memory commemorative inscriptions why we. Social status women were important in remembering and keeping traditions. Local history who was important in that region. Settlement patterns where people lived want to remember that person. Inheritance one reason why they claim lineage - this is quite disputed. Connected to the farmstead points to importance of land and ancestry. Religion they followed important source to chrstianization of scandinavia. Poems : important sources to viking history: eddic poems as english kings. Examples: horse of the sea ship: oral poetry. Also a viking sometimes refered to as a fighter poet. Contained information on facts info on kings of norways as well. Paid very well if you went to preform your poem in front of the. Distorted through a christian lens: good source or: Mentalities , ideas, social structure, everyday customs. Non- doctrinal religion no book like other religions.
