IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 851: Medieval Icelandic Farming, II: Remember the Workers!
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | University of Iceland / National Museum of Iceland |
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Organiser: | Bernadette McCooey, Independent Scholar, Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Árni Daníel Júlíusson, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík |
Paper 851-a | I Can't Believe It's Not Battle!: Skyr-Making and Memory in Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
Paper 851-b | Remembering the Work of Animals in Old Norse-Icelandic Textual Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History, Technology |
Paper 851-c | Búalög: The Lesser Remembered Icelandic Legal Text (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
Abstract | The transformation of raw products into useable goods requires knowledge and energy, yet scholarly discussion frequently skips over these vital processes. This session, one of two inter-connecting sessions on Icelandic farming at this year's Congress, demonstrates the significance of women and animals in on-farm production activities. These papers take an inter-disciplinary approach to consider women as transmitters of cultural memory about skyr production, a re-evaluation of livestock as working animals in the famous Íslendingasögur, The Sagas of Icelanders, and a socio-economic examination of farm labour in Búalög, a less-remembered later medieval legal text. |