The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Experience, Identity, Representation

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Documentation
Database 1: Weapon Motifs - Documentation CSV
Database 1: Weapon Motifs - Documentation
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Database 2: Sword Burials - Documentation CSV
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Database 3: Kennings - Documentation CSV
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Database Codes - Documentation CSV
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Database Files
Weapon Motifs
Database 1 forms the basis of Chapter 1 in the book. It contains information about Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian images of swords and spears, drawn from published and publicly accessible resources. The data concerns the appearance of the weapons, the contexts in which they appear or are used, and the types of people wielding them. In total, the database contains 2335 individual weapon motifs depicted on diverse media (manuscript, sculpture, coin, embroidery etc.).
DB1_Weapon_Motifs.csv CSV
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Weapon Motifs
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Sword Burials
Database 2 forms the basis of Chapter 2 in the book. It contains information about swords buried in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian graves, including their appearance, condition and placement relative to the body. It also contains similar information about any spears that were buried in the same graves. The dataset comprises 471 swords and 280 spears or angons, selected from specific regions of England and Scandinavia.
DB2_Sword_Burials.csv CSV
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Kennings
Database 3 forms the basis of Chapter 3 in the book. It comprises a collection of sword and spear ‘kennings’, linguistic constructions used in Old Norse and Old English poetry (particularly skaldic poetry) that replace simple nouns e.g. ‘fire’ becomes ‘harm of the forest’ (Björn krepphendi, Magnússdrápa 3). The corpus numbers 57 Old English and 240 Old Norse kennings.
DB3_Kennings.csv CSV
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Database Codes
This spreadsheet provides a key to the short codes used in Databases 1, 2 and 3.
Database_Codes.csv CSV
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