Chapter 6 Honey, Bones, and Furs: The Saami and the Bjarmians as Brokers in the Early Medieval Trade between Scandinavia and the Islamic World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. List of Figures XIII
6. Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: An Introduction 1
7. Part 1: The Medieval Nordic World
8. Chapter 1 Medieval Saami Imaginaries: Colonial Encounters as Memorialized in Traditional Legend Cycles 19
9. Chapter 2 Can We Access a Counter-Narrative to the Vínland Sagas through Kalaallit Oqaluttualiaat? 49
10. Part 2: Religious Change and Religious Minorities
11. Chapter 3 Far from Rome? Exploring Religion and Syncretism in Medieval Norse Greenland 77
12. Chapter 4 Saami Conversion and Identity Negotiation in the Medieval Period 109
13. Part 3: Colonialism
14. Chapter 5 The Gulf of Bothnia, c. 1300–1600, as a “Third Space”: A Postcolonial Interpretation of the Written Sources 135
15. Chapter 6 Honey, Bones, and Furs: The Saami and the Bjarmians as Brokers in the Early Medieval Trade between Scandinavia and the Islamic World 181
16. Chapter 7 Close Encounters of the Northern Kind: External Impacts and Indigenous Saami Reindeer-Herding Responses in Northernmost Europe, c. 700–1600 CE 201
17. Part 4: Entanglements
18. Chapter 8 “There Is a Strong Leaven of the Old Norse Blood in Nearly All of Us”: Settler Colonialism and the Vínland Mythology on the East Coast of North America 235
19. Chapter 9 Colonialism 2.0? Medieval Saami–Norse History in Norwegian Upper Secondary School Textbooks 257
20. A Way Forward? 289
21. Index 307