| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2001275355 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0140291156 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780140291155 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)45339661 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
949.101 Byo |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
949.101 Byo |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Byock, Jesse L. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Viking age Iceland |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Jesse L. Byock. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London ; |
| -- |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2001. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxi, 447 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes Index and Bibliography |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Immigrant society -- Resources and subsistence; life on an northern island -- Curdled milk and calamities; an inward-looking farming society -- Devolving and evolving social order -- Founding of a new society and the historical sources -- Limitations on a chieftain's ambitions, and strategies of feud and law; Eyrbyggja saga -- Chieftain-Thingmen relationships and advocacy -- Family and Sturlunga sagas; medieval narratives and modern nationalism -- Legislative and judicial system -- Systems of power; advocates, friendship, and family networks -- Aspects of blood feud -- Feud and vendetta in a 'great village' community -- Friendship, blood feud, and power; the saga of the people of weapon's fjord -- Obvious sources of wealth -- Lucrative sources of wealth for chieftains -- Peaceful conversion; the Viking age church -- Gragas; the 'grey goose' law -- Bishops and secular authority; the later church -- Big chieftains, big farmers and their sagas at the end of the free state. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The popular image of the Viking Age is a time of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. This was a unique time in history, which has long perplexed historians and archaeologists, and which provides us today with fundamental insights into sometimes forgotten aspects of western society. By interweaving his own original and innovative research with masterly interpretations of the Old Icelandic sagas, Jesse Byock brilliantly brings it to life. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
95502 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Iceland |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
To 1262. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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