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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197532373 

ISBN-13 :   9780197532379

Author: Stefan Brink 

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of “contract” with a king or chieftain to join his retinue, accepting his authority, patronage, and jurisdiction, while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians, as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book, became a major player in the northern slave trade. However, the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead, their “business model” seems to have been to raid, abduct, and then sell captured people at major slave markets. 

 Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Difficulties of Defining Slavery and the Borders between Free and Unfree
Ancient philosophers’ views on and historical descriptions of slavery
Research on slavery
3. Slavery in Europe during Antiquity and the First Millennium
Slavery in the Roman Empire
Slavery in Europe after the fall of Rome
Germany and the “Germanic” area
Slavery in Anglo-Saxon England
Slaves in Ireland
Spain
Summary
4. Scandinavian Slavery
5. Where Did the Slaves Come From?
6. Thralls in Old Norse Poetry and Sagas
7. Thralls in Runic Inscriptions
8. Terms for Thralls and Their Meanings
ambátt, ambótt
deja
man n., mansmaðr m. (mansman n.?)
líni
ánauðigr maðr
Terms based on the stem *þeṷ-
thrall
hapter and est
kæfsir
muslegoman
slave
val
vassal
bryti and lavard—lord and lady
fostri/fostra
“servant”—patron–client
*þeṷ- in personal names
9. How Were Thralls Used?
10. Evidence for Thralls in Scandinavian Place-Names
11. How Were Thralls Identified?
12. Thralls’ Names in Scandinavia
13. The Special Case of Älmeboda Parish in Southern Småland
14. Thralls in the Archaeological Material: Can We Excavate Slavery?
15. The Rise and Fall of Scandinavian Thraldom: When Did Slavery Appear in Scandinavia?
16. The Status of Slaves in Prehistoric Scandinavian Society
17. Excursus Trelleborg

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