Settlement, Climate Crisis and Lordship in Early Medieval Scandinavia

Authors

  • Jan-Henrik Fallgren Department of Archaeology and Ancient History

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2023.11

Keywords:

Climate crisis, early medieval Scandinavian hierarchies, Lordship, estates

Abstract

This article examines and describes the nature of lordship in Scandinavia during the Early Medieval period (c.400–1000 CE). It counters the assertions of earlier research, which claim that lordship with estates had already developed at the beginning of the period. Earlier arguments have built on assumptions that the development of estates was propelled by the ‘Dust Veil’ and the subsequent climate crisis of the mid-sixth century. Scholars have argued that a more hierarchical society followed, reflected through the emergence of more lavish burial customs. Through a broad comparison with other north-western European regions and peoples, this article demonstrates that these burial customs can be understood differently, and further, that a more hierarchal society was not necessarily the outcome of the crises of the sixth century. The resulting analysis of Scandinavian lordship is then anchored in a detailed case study of the well-preserved settlements, houses, farms and field-systems on the Baltic Island of Öland. It concludes that incentives to create estates in Scandinavia were not present before the Christianization process.

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2024-02-24

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Fallgren, J.-H. (2024) “Settlement, Climate Crisis and Lordship in Early Medieval Scandinavia”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 31, pp. 143–181. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2023.11.

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