Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age Brink Stefan
Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age Brink Stefan Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and…
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Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age Brink Stefan
Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses.
One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue, accepting his authority, patronage, and jurisdiction, while at the same time making a quick social elevation.Slavery was widespread all
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