‘Tangled up in Blue’: The Death, Dress and Identity of an Early Viking-Age Female Settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland

Smith, Michèle Hayeur; Smith, Kevin P.; Frei, Karin Margarita

doi:10.1080/00766097.2019.1589816

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“…Threads were dyed with organic material from bogs and plants. Although it is safe to assume that the clothing of most Icelanders was locally made until the modern period, some fabrics and clothing were imported from the settlement period in the ninth century AD, as has been demonstrated by analysis of Viking burials (Hayeur Smith et al, 2019). Rules regarding what people could wear according to their class and property were in effect in Iceland at least from the 13 th century onwards (Jónsson, 2004).…”

Section: Heaps Of Clothing-consuming and Disposing Of Clothesmentioning

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Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Maxwell

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This paper takes as its starting point two landscapes of waste and connects them through an account of the intensification of production and consumption of textiles in modernising Iceland. Archaeological waste assemblages and historical resources are used to illustrate the consumption and disposal of clothing throughout the 19th century, which is juxtaposed with archaeological and historical studies into sheep rearing, grazing pressures and wool production. The paper argues that the economic notion of waste and the capitalist system from which it originates create landscapes of waste. It stipulates that many solutions which have been forwarded to the waste crisis are still conceived of within this socio-economic system. Historicizing waste creation demonstrates the urgency for alternative answers and the need to resist the movement of materials through the cycle of resource extraction, production, consumption and recycling, and further away from sites of use.

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Section: Heaps Of Clothing-consuming and Disposing Of Clothesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Maxwell

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian analyses of AMS dates, tephrochronology, and texts

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Pálsdóttir

2021

Journal of Archaeological Science

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The Role of Women in Plant-based Textile Production during the Viking Diaspora in Scotland and the Irish Sea Region

Freeman¹

2021

The Scottish Historical Review

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Evidence for textiles in viking-age Scotland and the adjacent Irish Sea region derives from small fragments usually surviving as mineralised products associated with metal dress fittings and grave goods such as shield bosses and weaving battens, excavated from the furnished graves of both women and men. Since Scottish viking-age textiles were last reviewed over twenty years ago, this paper collates information from antiquarian finds and more recent excavations which employed considerably enhanced techniques for retrieving fragile archaeological textiles. Evidence is presented for the occurrence and role of plant-based textiles derived from flax and hemp including linen in funerary processes as burial garments, shrouds and wrapping other grave goods, such as weapons and tools. Many richly appointed women's graves in viking-age Scotland were accompanied by tool assemblages used in the manufacture and maintenance of textiles. The presence of these tools raises questions about the status of textile production and the roles women played in it.

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‘Tangled up in Blue’: The Death, Dress and Identity of an Early Viking-Age Female Settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Mountains of waste and wasted mountains: clothes, sheep and people in modernising Iceland

Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian analyses of AMS dates, tephrochronology, and texts

The Role of Women in Plant-based Textile Production during the Viking Diaspora in Scotland and the Irish Sea Region

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