Viking-age transformations : trade, craft and resources in western Scandinavia / edited by Zanette T. Glorstad and Kjetil Loftsgarden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and acknowledgements -- Viking-age economic transformations : the west-Scandinavian case / Dagfinn Skre -- Trade and traders -- Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies / Eivind Heldaas Seland -- The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jamtland, c. 875-1050 / Olof Holm -- Domestic and exotic materials in early medieval Norwegian towns : an archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption / Gitte Hansen -- The price of justice and administration of coinage / Svein Gullbekk and Frode Iversen -- Production and resources -- The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century : a regional perspective / Ole Tveiten and Kjetil Loftsgarden -- Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production / Unn Pedersen -- Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking age and the middle ages / Irene Baug -- 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 Norway / Kathrine Stene and Vivian Wangen -- Sites of trade -- A view from the valley : Langeid in Setesdal, south-Norway : a viking age trade station along a mercantile highway / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Camilla Cecilie Wenn -- Heimdalsjordet : trade, production and communication / Jan Bill and Christian Lchsen Rdsrud -- The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian "mountain land" / Kjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad and Frans-Arne Stylegar -- The urban hinterland : interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval Norway / Frode Iversen -- Index.