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The Viking Diaspora: a monograph

维京侨民：专着

基本信息

批准号：
AH/J007307/1
负责人：
Judith Jesch
金额：
$ 7.79万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ007307%2F1
关键词：
Viking Diaspora monograph

项目摘要

The early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East, in the period known as the Viking Age, have traditionally been conceptualised as an 'expansion' or 'migration', a straightforward one-way process. This research will explore the ways in which these migrations can instead be interpreted as a form of 'diaspora', a more productive understanding of the migration process which focuses on the connectedness between migrants and both their homelands and other regions within the diaspora. In the case of the Viking diaspora, this connectedness is particularly clearly expressed in language, in naming customs, and in traditional stories and poems, but is also found in aspects of material culture. The aim of the research is to use the concept of diaspora to integrate these linguistic and cultural phenomena with the most recent results from the molecular sciences, particularly genetics (modern and ancient DNA) and stable isotope analysis, and scientifica and environmental archaeology, all of which are used to track the historical movements of people of Scandinavian origin around the globe.Most general surveys of the Viking Age and its aftermath are written from an archaeological or broadly historical point of view. A notable feature of the proposed research is its foregrounding of the medieval Icelandic sagas, traditionally viewed as, at best, an unreliable source for the Viking Age. Yet when the period is seen in terms of diaspora, then the position of Iceland and the Icelanders within this diaspora becomes crucial. Geographically peripheral yet culturally central, Iceland illustrates the complex give-and-take between the homelands and the colonies that is characteristic of diaspora. Thus the sagas, and other Old Icelandic texts, both exemplify and explain the Viking diaspora, alongside the archaeological and historical evidence more commonly used to study the period. Diaspora is primarily about people, but it is also about people in new contexts and particularly new landscapes. A second distinctive feature of this research will be its focus on the geography of the Viking diaspora, and the interesting ways in which the linguistic and cultural unity of this diaspora transcended its wide geographical range and varied landscapes, an aspect that is inevitably given short shrift in the historical/archaeological treatments. The research will, for instance, explore in some detail the ways in which the place-names of the diaspora express this unity while also responding to this variety.The interdisciplinary study of gender, family, religion and identities is more firmly established, but my research will go further than previous studies in integrating results from the latest scientific research (especially genetics and isotope analysis), and current archaeological thinking, into the analysis.What is new in this research is the dialogue of the interdisciplinary study of the Viking Age with theories of migration and diaspora. Such theories have been little applied in Viking Age studies; conversely, the migrations of the Viking Age, with their great impact on human history, have rarely been considered by theorists of migration and diaspora. The contribution of the research will thus be to bring new approaches and understandings to Viking Studies and to highlight the Viking Age as an illuminating case study for the development of theories of migration and diaspora.

中世纪早期的人口、语言和文化从斯堪的纳维亚大陆迁移到不列颠群岛、北大西洋、波罗的海和东方的新家园，这一时期被称为维京海盗时代，传统上被概念化为“扩张”或“迁移”，这是一个简单的单向过程。这项研究将探讨这些移民的方式，而不是可以被解释为一种形式的“散居”，一个更富有成效的了解移民过程，重点是移民和他们的祖国和散居其他地区之间的联系。在维京海盗流散的情况下，这种联系在语言、命名习俗、传统故事和诗歌中表现得尤为明显，但在物质文化方面也有所体现。这项研究的目的是利用流散的概念将这些语言和文化现象与分子科学，特别是遗传学的最新成果结合起来（现代和古代DNA）和稳定同位素分析，以及科学和环境考古学，所有这些都被用来追踪斯堪的纳维亚人在地球仪周围的历史运动。对维京海盗时代及其从考古学或广义历史的角度来写。拟议中的研究的一个显着特点是它突出了中世纪冰岛传奇，传统上被视为，充其量，一个不可靠的来源，维京海盗时代。然而，如果从流散的角度来看待这一时期，那么冰岛和冰岛人在这一流散中的地位就变得至关重要。冰岛在地理上处于边缘地位，但在文化上处于中心地位，它说明了祖国和殖民地之间复杂的互让关系，这是散居的特点。因此，这些传奇故事和其他古冰岛文献都描述和解释了维京海盗的流散，同时还有更常用于研究这一时期的考古和历史证据。散居主要是关于人的，但它也是关于新环境中的人，特别是新景观。本研究的第二个显著特点是关注维京海盗流散地的地理，以及流散地的语言和文化统一性超越其广泛的地理范围和多样的景观的有趣方式，这方面在历史/考古研究中不可避免地受到忽视。例如，这项研究将详细探讨散居地的地名如何表达这种统一性，同时也回应这种多样性。性别、家庭、宗教和身份的跨学科研究更加牢固，但我的研究将比以往的研究更进一步，整合最新的科学研究成果（特别是遗传学和同位素分析），以及当前的考古学思维，纳入分析。这项研究的新之处在于维京海盗时代的跨学科研究与移民和散居理论的对话。这些理论在维京海盗时代的研究中很少得到应用;相反，维京海盗时代的移民对人类历史产生了巨大影响，但很少被移民和散居理论家所考虑。本研究的贡献在于为维京海盗研究带来新的视角和认识，并将维京海盗时代作为移民和散居理论发展的一个具有启发性的案例研究。