2014
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dtt3
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Silk for the Vikings

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“…Travel beyond the pale ‘speaks of unusual things beyond the here and now and generally beyond the means of ordinary folk’ (ibid., 267). Similarly, as noted by Marianne Vedeler in her recent biographical study of Viking Age silks (Vedeler 2014, 113), elites could be expected to particularly covet the acquisition of objects produced by skilled craftspeople at some distance from the home community. Such objects were seen to embody a particular ‘sacral’ power, inherent not only in the skill of their production or the beauty of their ornament (after Gell 1992), but also in their evidence of external contact.…”
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confidence: 86%
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“…Travel beyond the pale ‘speaks of unusual things beyond the here and now and generally beyond the means of ordinary folk’ (ibid., 267). Similarly, as noted by Marianne Vedeler in her recent biographical study of Viking Age silks (Vedeler 2014, 113), elites could be expected to particularly covet the acquisition of objects produced by skilled craftspeople at some distance from the home community. Such objects were seen to embody a particular ‘sacral’ power, inherent not only in the skill of their production or the beauty of their ornament (after Gell 1992), but also in their evidence of external contact.…”
Section: Or Status Fever?mentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Bradley 1990; Edmonds 1999; Giles 2013), including the study of first-millennial Scandinavia (Hedeager 2011, 145–47), but while occasionally being cited in studies of the Viking Age (e.g. Barrett 2013, 9; Vedeler 2014, 113), it appears to have had little impact on our understanding of one of the period's key characteristics: aristocratic mobility. Such mobility is well exemplified in the travelogue attributed to Ohthere, a 9th-century Norwegian visitor to the court of Alfred of Wessex (see Bately and Englert 2007).…”
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“…Madder-type dyestuffs are commonly found in graves from the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia: a number of written sources mentioned the use and export of madder and surviving trace amounts of dyes interpreted as madder have been found in a number of Scandinavian graves dating to the Viking Age [1,5,35].…”
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“…The impact of long-distance trade and the establishment of urban trading settlements played an important role, bringing the Scandinavians into contact with foreign cultures all over the old world. New trends in arts and crafts fueled the expansion of long-distant trades, including textiles and dyestuffs [3][4][5].…”
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confidence: 99%