Debating the Thing in the North II: Selected Papers from Workshops Organized by The Assembly Project

Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 8

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Research Articles
*Community and Society: The Thing* at the Edge of Europe** Frode Iversen	1
The Politics of Identity: Late Iron Age Sanctuaries in the Rhineland Manuel Fernández-Götz and Nico Roymans	18
Kingdoms, Communities, and Óenaig: Irish Assembly Practices in their Northwest European Context Patrick Gleeson	33
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland Elizabeth FitzPatrick	52
Þingvellir: A Place of Assembly and a Market? Natascha Mehler	69
Place Names, Landscape, and Assembly Sites in Skåne, Sweden Ola Svensson	82
Gallows, Cairns, and Things: A Study of Tentative Gallows Sites in Shetland Joris Coolen	93
Assembly Mounds in the Danelaw: Place-name and Archaeological Evidence in the Historic Landscape Alexis Tudor Skinner and Sarah Semple	115
Between Marklo and Merseburg: Assemblies and their Sites in Saxony from the Beginning of Christianization to the Time of the Ottonian Kings Caspar Ehlers	134
Performing Oaths in Eddic Poetry: Viking Age Fact or Medieval Fiction? Anne Irene Riisoy	141
Eddic Poetry: A Gateway to Late Iron Age Ladies of Law Anne Irene Riisoy	157
Re-evaluating the Scottish Thing: Exploring A Late Norse Period and Medieval Assembly mound at Dingwall Oliver J.T. O’Grady, David MacDonald, and Sandra MacDonald	172
Factors for the Protection of Merchants in Early Medieval Northern Europe Carsten Müller-Boysen (Translated by Stuart Jenks)	210