SCAN 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Iron Age Scandinavia, Migration Period, Fylgja
28 Oct 2016
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The terms fylgja, hugr, and hamr refer to: the fusion of man and animal. Scandinavia before the viking age: terminology. The iron age: 0 ce to medieval period (1100 ce) From 400 ce, the anglo-saxons migrate to britain; the goths migrate from their recently destroyed kingdom in modern day ukraine, first to the balkans, later to. Burgundians, cheruski, alamanni, and swabians, follow the goths into the roman. Empire, and are eventually instrumental in the demise of rome: the use of old norse sources in context of iron age archaeology: The major methodological problem is that the old norse sources are medieval, and that they were written down in a christian context. When focusing on cognitive structures (modes of thinking), mentality, cosmology, and belief systems, the old norse sources become useful in a long-term perspective. No separation of economic, political or religious institutions. The dominant worldview fuses everything into a coherent whole.
