Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Study: Among Viking societies, Norway was much more violent than Denmark
Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers including University of South Florida sociologist David Jacobson challenges that assumption.
Their findings show that interpersonal violence—violence not meted out as punishment by authorities—was much more common in Norway. This is evident in the much greater rates of trauma on skeletons and the extent of weaponry in Norway. The study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, sheds new light on how Viking Age societies in Norway and Denmark differed in their experiences with violence and the role social structures played in shaping those patterns.
via phys.org
Yup. Just as I suspected. Norwegians don't mess about.
https://rightcoast.typepad.com/rightcoast/2024/09/study-among-viking-societies-norway-was-much-more-violent-than-denmark.html
Comments
(i) My father used to say I'd been bounced on Norwegian knees before ever I met an Englishman.
Separately: (ii) For part of The War the Free Norwegian Forces were based near my boyhood home. They were popular. Some distance away French Canadian troops had been based - who were distinctly unpopular.
Posted by: dearieme | Sep 6, 2024 4:15:25 AM
My father always said "We are really Vikings". I think he must have been referring to the village his father's family originally came from, and our frames and colouring. And maybe a proneness to brief spells of foul temper.
Though I am, happily, largely exempt from the latter. Taking after my mother there, I suppose.
Posted by: dearieme | Sep 6, 2024 4:12:16 AM