Neil Price

TL;DR: The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of nation states (riki) is discussed in the context of the Viking Age in the British Isles and in the North Atlantic region of modern-day Russia and the East.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Viking diaspora was characterized by substantial transregional engagement: distinct populations influenced the genomic makeup of different regions of Europe, and Scandinavia experienced increased contact with the rest of the continent.

TL;DR: In this article, a model to explain the variation of individual expression in mortuary behaviour is proposed, focusing on the evident deliberation shown in the precise selection and placement of objects, and in the treatment of animals (and sometimes humans) killed as part of the funeral process.

TL;DR: In this article, Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject, including shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism.