Event: WEDS TALKS: Viking Architecture from the British Isles to Iceland: Exchange, Transatlantic Communities, and Turf Construction

ABSTRACT: This talk, a work in progress, questions the logic that continues to marginalize Vikings within the fields of art and architectural history. This paper instead explores the possibility and subsequent implications of artistic and architectural exchange across the Viking diaspora. It does so primarily by examining the functional commonalities of a wall construction technique in use in the British Isles and after circa 865, in Iceland, across respective mediums of stone and turf.

BIO: Alex is a 3rd-year PhD student in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His ongoing research is a product of collaboration, and he has received especially generous support for his fieldwork from the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation.