The Viking Age was a period of profound change, as kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines the central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia.

Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of Contributors1. Viking-Age economic transformations: the West-Scandinavian caseDagfinn SkrePart I – Trade and traders2. Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societiesEivind Heldaas Seland3. The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jämtland, c. 875–1050Olof Holm4. Domestic and exotic materials in early mMedieval Norwegian towns: an archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption Gitte Hansen5. The price of justice and administration of coinage Svein Gullbekk and Frode Iversen Part II – Production and resources 6. The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century: a regional perspectiveOle Tveiten and Kjetil Loftsgarden7. Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity productionUnn Pedersen8. Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and the Middle AgesIrene Baug 9. The Uplands: the deepest of forest and the highest of mountains – resource exploitation and landscape management in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in southern NorwayKathrine Stene and Vivian WangenPart III – Sites of trade 10. A view from the valley: Langeid in Setesdal, South Norway – a Viking-Age trade station along a mercantile highwayZanette Tsigaridas Glørstad and Camilla Cecilie Wenn11. Heimdalsjordet: trade, production and communicationJan Bill and Christian Løchsen Rødsrud 12. The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian ‘Mountain Land’ Kjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad and Frans-Arne Stylegar13. The urban hinterland: interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval NorwayFrode Iversen Index