II: 26 Diaspora

Jesch, Judith

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“…The idea of ‘diaspora’ is a relatively recent concept in Viking Studies, as developed by Abrams (2012) and Jesch (2015a, 2018). The term ‘Viking diaspora’ is now widely used, though not always with full consideration of its implications (Price, 2020: 555).…”

Section: Viking Migrations and Diasporamentioning

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“…In contrast to theories of cultural memory, which emphasise the present in which texts were produced, a diasporic understanding of these texts encompasses the whole period from the described past through to the time of writing. This enables us to see the sagas as neither a simple, transmitted memory of the past, nor as a thoroughly contemporised past, but as something in between (Jesch, 2018). The sagas do reach back into the Viking Age, but in a variety of complex ways that need to be unpicked.…”

Section: Texts and The Viking Agementioning

confidence: 99%

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Haplotypes and textual types: Interdisciplinary approaches to Viking Age migration and mobility

Jesch

2021

Journal of Social Archaeology

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When geneticists became interested in Viking Age migration and mobility, about 20 years ago, their evidence was drawn from the DNA of modern populations. More recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) techniques have been refined to the extent that evidence from archaeological skeletons is now being brought into the discussions. While modern DNA can provide large datasets, it remains a question how well these represent populations of over a thousand years ago. On the other hand, aDNA is indeed ancient, but the datasets are small and therefore also not necessarily representative. The historical and literary texts about Viking Age migration and mobility also suffer from doubts about how representative they are. This common characteristic of texts and genetics indicates that an interdisciplinary approach would be fruitful. This paper will explore intersections between ancient texts and aDNA to suggest some ways forward.

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Haplotypes and textual types: Interdisciplinary approaches to Viking Age migration and mobility

Jesch

2021

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Narratives of inequality. Towards an archaeology of structural violence in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

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Kjellström

2024

Arch. Dial.

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To date, traditional narratives of the Late Iron Age have focused almost exclusively on discussions of the elite. These were the martial rulers and major landholders who occupied the upper strata of Scandinavian society. The lives of lower-status population groups, including enslaved and other ‘unfree’ or dependent peoples such as landless farmers, have long been marginalized in archaeological discourse. We have little knowledge of the ways in which the lifeways of subaltern peoples were shaped by the construction and maintenance of socio-political hierarchies and networks, or of how social inequality permeated and impacted the daily lives of communities. In this article, the authors propose that the concept of structural violence, developed by sociologist Johan Galtung, has the potential to offer an interdisciplinary framework for multi-proxy studies of (bio)archaeological and textual data.

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Feeling at Home with Anymals in Old Norse Sources

Tang¹

2021

Home Cultures

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II: 26 Diaspora

Cited by 4 publications

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Haplotypes and textual types: Interdisciplinary approaches to Viking Age migration and mobility

Haplotypes and textual types: Interdisciplinary approaches to Viking Age migration and mobility

Narratives of inequality. Towards an archaeology of structural violence in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

Feeling at Home with Anymals in Old Norse Sources

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