Debating the Thing in the North I
Selected Papers from Workshops Organized by The Assembly Project
In: Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 5, 2013
Selected Papers from Workshops Organized by The Assembly Project
Journal of the North Atlantic; Special Volume 5, 2013
Special Editor: Alexandra Sanmark
Debating the Thing in the North I: Introduction and Acknowledgments
By Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, Natascha Mehler, and Frode Iversen
Concilium and Pagus—Revisiting the Early Germanic Thing System of Northern Europe
By Frode Iversen
Þing goða—The Mythological Assembly Site
By Nanna Løkka
Sacred Legal Places in Eddic Poetry: Reflected in Real Life?
Anne Irene Riisøy
State Formation, Administrative Areas, and Thing Sites in the Borgarthing Law Province, Southeast Norway
Marie Ødegaard
Tracing Medieval Administrative Systems: Hardanger, Western Norway
Halldis Hobæk
Governance at the Anglo-Scandinavian Interface: Hundredal Organization in the Southern Danelaw
John Baker and Stuart Brookes
Patterns of Assembly: Norse Thing Sites in Shetland
Alexandra Sanmark
What is in a Booth? Material Symbolism at Icelandic Assembly Sites
Orri Vésteinsson
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Debating the Thing in the North
Selected Papers from Workshops Organized by The Assembly Project
Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 5, 2013
Editor: Alexandra Sanmark
The Journal of the North Atlantic (JONA) is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed and edited archaeology and environmental history journal focusing on the peoples of the North Atlantic, their expansion into the region over time, and their interactions with their changing environment .
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The Assembly Project (TAP) – Meeting-places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500 is an international collaborative project investigating the first systems of governance in Northern Europe.