Resumen de Feasting in Viking Age Iceland. Sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment

Davide Zori, Jesse Byock, Egill Erlendsson, Steve Martin, Thomas Wake, Kevin J. Edwards

• The authors show that the principal correlates of feasting in Viking Age Iceland were beef and barley, while feasting itself is here the primary instrument of social action. Documentary references, ethnographic analogies, archaeological excavation and biological analyses are woven together to present an exemplary procedure for the recognition of feasting more widely.