Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011 Title I kungens frånvaro. Formeringen av en isländsk aristokrati 1271–1387 English title In royal absence. The making of an Icelandic aristocracy, ...

This cross-disciplinary doctoral thesis examines thegns (OE/ON þegn) in late pre-Norman England and Viking-Age Scandinavia, departing from the problem of interpreting thegns commemorated in 45 runic inscriptions from around ...