Youth and Age in the Medieval North

Shannon Lewis-Simpson, Ph.D. (2005) in Early Medieval Studies, University of York, teaches at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. She researches aspects of cultural identity and interaction in the Viking-Age North Atlantic.

• Notes on Contributors ... viiThe Challenges of Quantifying Youth and Age in the Medieval North ... 1Shannon Lewis-SimpsonForever Young: Child Burial in Anglo-Saxon England ... 17Christina LeeConstructions of Early Childhood at the Syncretic Cemetery of Fjälkinge—a Case Study ... 37Lotta MejsholmChild Burials and Children’s Status in Medieval Norway ... 57Berit J. SellevoldFosterage and Dependency in Medieval Iceland and its Signifi cance in Gísla saga ... 73Anna HansenThe Birth, Childhood and Adolescence of the Early Icelandic Bishops ... 87Bernadine McCreesh‘Sveinn einn ungr fell í sýruker’: Medieval Icelandic Children in Vernacular Miracle Stories ... 103Joanna A. SkórzewskaTeenage Angst: The Structures and Boundaries of Adolescence in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iceland ... 127Nic PercivallAwkward Adolescents: Male Maturation in Norse Literature ... 151 Carolyne Larrington‘Spoiling them Rotten?’: Grandmothers and Familial Identity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iceland ... 167Philadelphia RickettsAge Matters in Old English Literature ... 205Jordi Sánchez-MartíBecoming ‘Old’, Ageism and Taking Care of the Elderly in Iceland c. 900–1300 ... 227Jón Viðar SigurðssonOld Age in Viking-Age Britain ... 243Shannon Lewis-SimpsonThe Patriarch: Myth and Reality ... 265Ármann JakobssonEgill Skalla-Grímsson: a Viking Poet as a Child and an Old ManYelena Sesselja Helgadóttir YershovaIndex ... 305