Drinking Horns in Old Norse Culture: A Tradition Under Examination

Obrazek miniatury
Data
2015
Autorzy
Hofmann, Anne
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Wydawnictwo
Fundacja Rzeszowskiego Ośrodka Archeologicznego
Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University
Abstrakt
By comparing archaeological finds with literary evidence this article seeks to reconstruct the role of drinking horns during the Viking Age. After an overview of drinking horns as represented in archaeology, several literary texts, predominantly Medieval Icelandic sagas, will be studied to shed further light on how drinking horns were seen and used. Drinking horns were used as a literary motif in these texts, but it can be demonstrated that they can also be linked to the archaeological evidence from the Viking Age, thus improving our understanding of the archaeological record.
Opis
Słowa kluczowe
drinking horn , Old Norse , sagas , Viking Age , material culture
Cytowanie
Ana­lecta Archa­eolo­gica Res­so­viensia, vol. 10 (2015), s. 241–270