Draupnir's sweat and Mardöll's tears : an archaeology of jewellery, gender and identity in Viking age Iceland
- M. Smith
- Sociology
- 2004
Items of jewellery in Icelandic society traditionally have been analysed in typological, chronological and technological terms with descriptive approaches to discussing their presence in the…
Dress, Cloth, and the Farmer's Wife: Textiles from Ø 172 Tatsipataa, Greenland, with Comparative Data from Iceland
- M. Smith
- History
- 25 June 2014
Abstract
Midden excavations at Ø172 (Tatsipataa), on the eastern shore of the Igaliku fjord in southwestern Greenland, produced a significant textile collection consisting of 98 fragments. This…
Thorir’s bargain: gender, vaðmál and the law
- M. Smith
- History, Economics
- 1 December 2013
Archaeological textiles from Iceland have not been objects of significant analyzes until recently, yet they provide important new data on the use of cloth in legal transactions. Medieval Icelandic…
Vaðmál and Cloth Currency in Viking and Medieval Iceland
- M. Smith
- Economics, HistorySilver, Butter, Cloth
- 6 December 2018
In medieval Iceland, apparently alone among the North Atlantic Norse colonies, cloth evolved into a highly standardized form of currency within a broader-based commodity-money system imported from…
Breaking the Mould: A Re-evaluation of Viking Age Mould-making Techniques for Oval Brooches
- M. Smith
- Art
- 15 May 2017
‘Tangled up in Blue’: The Death, Dress and Identity of an Early Viking-Age Female Settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland
- M. Smith, Kevin P. Smith, K. Frei
- HistoryMedieval Archaeology
- 2 January 2019
IN 1938, a woman’s burial was uncovered by road builders at Ketilsstaðir in north-eastern Iceland. Recently, her physical remains and associated funerary goods were re-examined by an international,…
Weaving Wealth:: Cloth and Trade in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland
- M. Smith
- Economics
- 30 June 2014
“Some in Rags and Some in Jags and Some in Silken Gowns”: Textiles from Iceland’s Early Modern Period
- M. Smith
- History, Economics
- 4 August 2012
The Danish trade monopoly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries resulted in the implementation of strict regulations and controls on textile production, the introduction of weaving workshops…
Dorset, Norse, or Thule? Technological transfers, marine mammal contamination, and AMS dating of spun yarn and textiles from the Eastern Canadian Arctic
- M. Smith, Kevin P. Smith, G. Nilsen
- Environmental ScienceJournal of Archaeological Science
- 14 July 2018
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