The Early Viking Age in Norway
The Early Viking Age in Norway
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挪威早期维京时代
DOI:
10.1034/j.1600-0390.2000.d01-4.x
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发表时间:
2000
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0.8
通讯作者:
B. Myhre
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作者:
B. Myhre
NEW LIGHT ON THE ‘‘DARK 600s’’The rich archaeological finds from the Viking Age in Norway are traditionally explained by rapid cultural and social advances following new contacts with Western Europe after 793. An argument for a rather sudden change of the society at that time is the hypothesis that the 600s was a Dark Age of stagnation in South Norway after an economic and political collapse of society in the late sixth century (Gudesen 1980, 124, 136; Helgen 1982, 51; Magnus & Myhre 1986, 398).In North Norway and Trøndelag it seems that the economic, social and political situation was stable throughout these centuries. Recent archaeological research in South Norway may indicate that the proposed stagnation of the 600s was not so dramatic as earlier believed. New intensive investigations in marginal agrarian areas like the mountains, the woodlands and along the outer coast show that hunting, the use of summer pastures, iron extraction, fishing aso continued, and at some places even were expanding during the seventh century (Myhre 1993; based on Alsaker 1989; Bjørgo 1986; Bjørgo et al. 1992, 302–308; Magnus 1974; 1986; Martens 1988, 82–85).