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When Viking Age house interiors are reconstructed, the focus is usually on the fireplace and the placement of tables, benches and beds. These features help us understand how people lived. However, we often forget that textiles, such as blankets, sheets, tablecloths and wall hangings, were also important in everyday life. Textiles were used for comfort, cleaning and decoration, and they helped tell stories as well as signal a person's or family's social status. Most Viking Age textiles that have survived are found in graves. These include not only clothing but also bedding, pillows and fabrics used to wrap objects. A burial can be seen as a kind of room for the dead, filled with items that reflect how people lived and what they valued. Because of this, grave finds are important when discussing the interior textiles used in Viking Age houses. Wall hangings are mentioned as status symbols in the Icelandic sagas, and examples from the late Viking Age and early medieval period have been found and preserved in churches, giving us insight into their use and value. Old Norse texts also mention soft furnishings such as tablecloths and handcloths, and the use of interior textiles can be seen on the Bayeux embroidery. Other types of iconography, such as on rune stones and picture stones, help us understand how interior textiles may have been used. By combining information from textiles, written sources and iconography, and by applying different approaches, the chapters in this book offer various perspectives on how interior textiles were used in the Viking Age, why they were needed and how valuable they were.
Contents
Introduction: Interior Textiles in the Viking Age
1. Houses, Homes and Textiles in the Viking Age. A Perspective from Assemblage Theory
Anna S. Beck
Techniques, Textiles, and Texts - Interior Textiles from Birka with a few other Examples from Scandinavian Viking and Early Middle Ages
Eva Andersson Strand
Textile Materials Found in the Valsgärde Boat Graves in Sweden
Marie Bengtsson
Bedding Equipment in Scandinavian Viking Age Burials
Charlotte Rimstad
The Embroidered Textile from the Viking Age Burial of Bjerringhøj
Ulla Mannering and Charlotte Rimstad
Tapestries in Visual and Oral Storytelling. The Oseberg Example
Marianne Vedeler
The Imagery of the Gotland: Picture Stones Compared to the Tapestries from Oseberg And Överhogdal
Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt
Textiles in a Martial Context: Evidence of Production and Use in the Garrison at Birka, Sweden
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
Early Medieval textiles from a House in Sigtuna
Amica Sundström
