2023
DOI: 10.23865/noasp.194
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Effective Houses: Property Rights and Settlement in Iron Age Eastern Norway

Lars Erik Gjerpe

Abstract: This book examines property rights, settlement structure and social organization in Norway’s Østlandet in the Iron age (500 BC–AD 1050). Inspired by ethnographical and anthropological studies, a model of a stateless, agrarian and hierarchical society with socially based rights to land is presented. In this model, where there are no territorially embedded rights, society is better represented as a heterarchy or anarchy than as a hierarchy. Power in society was shared between the honoured warrior, the powerless … Show more

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