
Format: Hardback
Pages: 378
ISBN: 9788779343085
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2008
Imprint: Aarhus University Press
Series: Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series
Illustrations: colour photos & maps
Description:
This second volume on the excavations of the Norwegian Viking town Kaupang 2000-2003 presents find types used in economic transactions - coins, hacksilver, ingots, weights and balances. Changes in type and volume of economic transactions at Kaupang and in Scandinavia are discussed, and the economic mentality of Viking crafts- and tradesmen is explored. In the early ninth century, silver and goods seem to have come to Kaupang mainly from the Carolinigian world.