[SCAND341] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 26 pages long Study Guide!
5 Oct 2016
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Bone, horn, stone for tools and weapons. Amber beads are also found in bogs and wetlands. Second hald(neolithihc) farmers and fisherman, belief in a mother eath goddes mound graves. Close of period: boat axe/ single grave culture. No bronze (except denmark), a few iron articles. War god is potentially who sacrifices were going to. Movements of the germanic tribes around europe. Vandals are from vendal (se_ or vendsyssel(dk) Fertility cult still present, but a stronger influence of a warrior cult emerging (bog finds) He gets all of his information second hand. Appearance, climate, government, daily life and habits, values, marriage and family customs, warfare, crime and punishment. Overpopulation; politics; coming of age; seafaring technology. Orkneys, shetland islands, faroe islands, iceland, greenland, north america. Two brothers got into trouble, lost their land. Lawsayingman- would recite of the laws once a year. Every three years all of the laws were said. Iceland: built on heathen system (gothar/gothi, these were the heathen priests/chieftains)
