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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
Title:
The name of the witch: sagas, sorcery and social
content
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Social approaches to Viking studies, edited by Ross
Samson
Published By: Original publisher
Social approaches to Viking studies, edited by Ross
Samson
Glasgow: Cruithne Press. 1991. 157-168 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Gísli Pálsson
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2004. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Early Icelanders (EQ02)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Verbal arts (5310);
Ingroup antagonisms (578);
Districts (634);
Sorcery (754);
Revelation and divination (787);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Family Sagas provide numerous accounts of sorcery and
withcraft, while such accounts are remarkably absent in the later Sturlunga Sagas. This
suggests that accusations of withcraft were important during the earlier years of the
Commonwealth Period but not during the age of the Sturlungs. This article places witchcraft
accusations in the social context of the former period, using 'Eyrbyggja saga' in
particular as a case study, and suggests an explanation for their absence during the second
period in terms of changes in social and political organization (p. 158).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
7
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
eq02-007
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
For bibliographical references see document 5:
[Sampson]
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Social Anthropologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2002
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
ninth-thirteenth centuries
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
general Iceland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Icelanders
