Tales Of The Iron Bloomery Ironmaking In Southeastern Norway Foundation Of Statehood C Ad 7001300 Bernt Rundberget by Bernt Rundberget 9789004278790, 9789004331570, 9004278796, 9004331573 instant download after payment.

"In Tales of the Iron Bloomery Bernt Rundberget examines the
ironmaking in southern Hedmark in Norway in the period AD 700-1300.
Excavations show that this method is distinctive and geographically
limited; this is expressed by the technology, organization, development
and large-scale production.
The ironmaking practice had its origins in increasing demands for
iron, due to growth in urbanization, church power, kingship and
mercantile networks. Rundberget’s main hypothesis is that iron became
the economic basis for political developments, from chiefdom to kingdom.
Iron extraction activity grew from the late Viking Age, throughout the
early medieval period, before it came to a sudden collapse around AD
1300. This trend correlates with the rise and fall of the kingdom." in Brill