Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia, c. 1000-1800

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Introduction / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Thomas Småberg 1
Holy Unbreakable Bonds: Oaths and Friendship in Nordic and Western European Societies, c. 900–1200 / Lars Hermanson 15
The Changing Role of Friendship in Iceland, c. 900–1300 / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson 43
The Motif of Friendship in Vernacular Icelandic Hagiography / Joanna A. Skórzewska 65
Friends or Patrons? Powerful Go‑Betweens in the Norwegian Realm in the High Middle Ages / Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl 93
The Reception and Adaptation of Courtly Culture in Old Norse Society: Changing Conceptions of Hierarchy and Networks in Two Versions of \'Tristrams saga\' / Hans Jacob Orning 115
Educating the Danes: Anglo-Danish Connections in the Formative Period of the Danish Church, c. 1000–1150 / Mia Münster-Swendsen 153
Masculinities and Friendship / Nanna Damsholt 175
The Language of Masculine Friendship: Idealism and Political Realism in a Swedish Fourteenth-Century Rhyming Chronicle / Thomas Småberg 199
The Friendship of Kings: Friendship and Clientelism around the Kings of Denmark, 1600–1750 / Gunner Lind 233
Friends, Brokers, and the King: A Norwegian Merchant’s Informal Political Network in Copenhagen in the Early Eighteenth Century / Ola Teige 255
The Value of Friendship in Trade and Political Networks: An Interactive View of the Late Eighteenth-Century Urban Elite of Christiania / Bård Frydenlund 275
Friends, Patrons, and Clients in the Middle Ages / Helgi Þorláksson 293