Thraldom

Stefan Brink is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the Institute of Nordic Studies at the University of Highlands and Islands, and Professor and Researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, and formerly the Sixth Century Chair of Scandinavian Studies at University of Aberdeen. He is also a Member of the Royal Swedish and the Royal Scottish Science Academies. His previous books include Namenwelten (2004), The Viking World (2008), Sacred Sites and Holy Places. Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape Through Time and Space (2013) New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia (2014), and Theorizing Old Norse Myth (2017).

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction

1. Slavery in Europe during antiquity and the first millennium
2. Scandinavian slavery
3. Where did the slaves come from?
4. Thralls in Old Norse poetry and sagas
5. Thralls in runic inscriptions
6. Terms for thralls and their meanings
7. How were thralls used?
8. Evidence for thralls in Scandinavian place-names
9. How were thralls identified?
10. Thralls' names in Scandinavia
11. The special case of Älmeboda parish in southern Småland
12. Thralls in the archaeological material - Can we excavate slavery?
13. The rise and fall of Scandinavian thraldom - when did slavery appear in Scandinavia?
14. The status of slaves in Prehistoric Scandinavian society
15. Excursus Trelleborg

Appendix 1- Historical and Archaeological Periods in Europe
Appendix 2- Development of Indo-European languages

Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index