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Vikings would catch individuals throughout raids to shackle them.
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Slavery has actually existed for countless years, penetrating ancient and modern-day societies throughout the world. The Vikings were no various. Enslaved individuals were important productsbeing recorded and after that traded throughout the Vikings’ large networks. Legal texts and composed sources demonstrate how enslaved individuals were cost trading centers in the exact same vein as livestock.
In this excerpt from “The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age” (Basic Books, 2026), author and archaeologist Neil Price takes a look at the dreadful lives of the “thralls” — the Viking term for the oppressed. In it, he highlights the inhumane treatment of enslaved individuals, from the raids to abduct individuals into the servant trade to a female who appears to have actually been eliminated as a homage to a high-status guy.
Neil Price is identified teacher and chair of archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has actually been looking into, mentor and composing on the Vikings for almost 40 years and is the author of numerous books on the history of the Viking Age, consisting of “Children of Ash and Elm” (Basic Books, 2020). He resides in Sweden.
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