Abstract: | This paper aims to call into attention the fact that the dynamics of the Viking Age Norse society and its cultural patterns, in dearth of adequate archaeological evidence available to a scholar, can be researched by means of analysing its literary heritage, preserved in the form of sagas. While I am far from arguing that this peculiar genre should be indiscriminately treated as a body of veritable records of events, I do make a claim that sagas can be considered to be vessels of Viking Age Norse values, beliefs, and particular outlook on the world, among many. |