Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fj�alkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in G�isla Saga / Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh -- 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Sk�orzewska -- Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi S�anchez-Mart�i -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Vi�ar Sigur�sson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Gr�imsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgad�ottir Yershova.

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