Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia (Yale Historical Publications Series)

This book is the first work in English to examine the institutuion of slavery in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland from the Viking Age to its end in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a wide variety of cources-- law codes, will, charters, sagas, chronicles, and archaeological data-- Ruth Mazo Karras discusses the social, legal, and economic aspects of slavery in Scandinavia, comparing them with conditions of servitude in the rest of medieval Europe. Ruth Mazo Karras. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 259-300.