The Laws about Weddings in Viking-Age Gotland

medieval church on Gotland - photo by  Stella Hwang / Flickr

An important source about daily-life in Viking-Age Scandinavia is Guta Lag, a set of laws from the Swedish island of Gotland. This includes details on how weddings were to be conducted.

Saga Motifs on Gotland Picture Stones: The Case of Hildr Högnadóttir

The Stora Hammars I stone. - Gotland picture stone

This article will only examine one of these legends, namely the ‘Hildr legend’ in the context of two of these stones, lärbro stora hammars  and stenkyrka smiss . An attempt will be made to place the images in a larger context than has been done before, and by doing so to strenghten the probability that they were indeed intended to refer to the original Hildr legend.

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