Check out the PPF 2020 binder! We're using it to collect notes and research in advance of the event. You're more than welcome to make comments or add notes as well, though we ask that, if you add notes, you include your sources.
Handouts from classes that have been taught on relevant topics are available, with the kind permission of their authors, at the bottom of this page.
Find the binder here!
General
Clothing
Food, feasting, and feasthalls
- Interpreting the Plant and Animal Remains from Viking-age Kaupang
- Old Norse Drinking Culture
- Feasts, Celebrations, and Guest Friendship
- Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence of a Norse island food custom
- Molecular and isotopic traces of cooking and consumption of fish at an Early Medieval manor site in eastern middle Sweden
- Hofstaðir : Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland
- Iron and Viking Age grapes from Denmark – vine seeds found at the royal complexes by Lake Tissø
- From self-sufficiency to external supply and famine: Foodstuffs, their preparation and storage in Iceland
- Undir borðum Zur Funktionalisierung von Nahrung und Mahlzeiten in den Isländersagas ("Undir borðum" Functionalization of Food and Meals in the Icelandic Sagas, German)
- Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment
- The mead-hall community
- The Farm as a Social Arena / Constructing society in Viking Age Iceland
- Bjørkum: feasting, craft production and specialisation on a Viking Age rural site in Norway
- Hofstadir The Archaeofauna
- The palaeoecology of a high status Icelandic farm
- The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson
- The Viking Food Guy
- Reenactors Alamannen Kochbuch by Andrea Gräupel and Stefan Müller
- The Ribe Viking Center
- Hurstwic
- Viking Answer Lady
- Authentic Viking Food (Facebook Group) and related recipe group
- Viking Dublin: Botanical Evidence from Fishamble Street by Siobhán Geraghty
- Archaeological Finds of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Viking Foodstuffs by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
- Sundqvist, Olof. “Sagas, Religion, and Rulership: The Credibility of the Descriptions of Rituals in Hákonar saga góða.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 (2005): 225-250.
- Zori, Davide, Jesse Byock, Egill Erlendsson, Steve Martin, Thomas Wake, and Kevin J. Edwards. "Feasting in Viking age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment." Antiquity 87, no. 335 (2013): 150+. Gale In Context: High School (accessed December 27, 2019). https://link-gale-com.sled.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A324587656/SUIC?u=ak_sdlc_web&sid=SUIC&xid=9256b80c.)
- Anna Linderholm, Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson, Olle Svensk and Kerstin Lidén (2008). Diet and status in Birka: stable isotopes and grave goods compared. Antiquity, 82, pp 446-461 doi:10.1017/ S0003598X00096939
Literature and Poetry
Useful Books and Articles
- Ambrose, Roland. ReCreating Knattleikr. Urbana, IL: Folump Enterprises, 2006.
- Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems: Ed. and Transl. by N. Kershaw. 1922.
- Ballif Staubhaar, Sandra. Old Norse Women’s Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D.S. Brewer, 2011.
- Bencard, Mogens, Lise Bender. Jørgensen, and Helge Brinch. Madsen. Ribe Excavations, 1970-76. Sydjysk Universitetsforlag, 1981.
- Buckley, James. “Inspiration and Inebriation: Transformative Drinks in Old Norse Literature.” Master’s Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015.
- Candea Matei, and Giovanni Da Col. “The Return to Hospitality.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18, no. Supp S1 (June 2, 2012): S1–19. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01757.x.
- Enright, Michael J. Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age. Four Courts Press, 2007.
- Fridriksdottir, Johanna K. "Gender, Humor, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." In Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Anna Foka and Jonas Liliquist, 211-28. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Geraghty, Siobhán. Viking Dublin: Botanical Evidence from Fishamble Street. Royal Irish Academy for the National Museum of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy, 1996.
- Goodrich, Russell. "Scandanavians and Settlement in the Eastern Irish Sea Region during the Viking Age." Doctoral Thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2010.
- Graham-Campbell, James, and Colleen E. Batey. Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey. Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
- Griffith, Paddy. The Viking Art of War. Casemate, 2009.
- Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
- Hollander, Lee M., trans. The Poetic Edda. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1988.
- Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Boydell Press, 2006.
- Jochens, Jenny. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell University Press, 1998.
- Jørgensen, Lars. "Norse Religion and Ritual Sites in Scandinavia in the 6th - 11th Century." In Northern worlds - landscapes, interactions and dynamics: research at the National Museum of Danmark ; proceedings of the Northern Worlds Conference Copenhagen 28-30 November 2012, edited by Hans C. Gulløv, 129-50. Vol. 22. Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History. Copenhagen: National Museum, 2014.
- Mitchell, Stephen A. "The Whetstone as Symbol of Authority." Scandinavian Studies 57 (1983): 1-31.
- Pollington, Stephen. The Meadhall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Books, 2012.
- Poulsen, B. and Sindbaek, S., eds. Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia. Brepolis, 2011.
- Price, Neil S. The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Oxbow, 2007.
- Riseley, Charles. "Ceremonial Drinking in the Viking Age." Master's thesis, University of Oslo, 2014.
- Rood, Joshua. "Ascending the Steps to Hliðskjálf The Cult of Óðinn in Early Scandinavian Aristocracy". Master's Thesis, University of Iceland, 2017.
- Sander Langeslag, Paul. Seasonal Setting and the Human Domain in Early English and Early Scandinavian Literature. PhD Thesis, University of Toronto. 2012.
- Serra, Daniel, and Hanna Tunberg. An Early Meal: A Viking Age Cookbook & Culinary Odyssey. ChronoCopia Publishing, 2013.