Drinking Horns in Old Norse Culture A Tradition Under Examination

• Authors: Anne Hofmann

Title variants

PL

Rogi do picia w kulturze ludzi Północy: Studium tradycji

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

By comparing archaeological finds with literary evidence this article seeks to reconstruct the role of drinking horns during the Viking Age. After an overview of drinking horns as represented in archaeology, several literary texts, predominantly Medieval Icelandic sagas, will be studied to shed further light on how drinking horns were seen and used. Drinking horns were used as a literary motif in these texts, but it can be demonstrated that they can also be linked to the archaeological evidence from the Viking Age, thus improving our understanding of the archaeological record.

Keywords

EN

drinking horn; Old Norse; sagas; Viking Age; material culture

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University, Fundacja Rzeszowskiego Ośrodka Archeologicznego
• Journal: Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 241–270

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Anne Hofmann

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Nordische Philologie, Amalienstr. 83, 80799 München, Germany