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Artikel: HAWKS AND FALCONS
Falcons were kept, though these beautiful animals cannot ever be said to be truly domesticated. Falconry was the sport of the wealthy, for the common man was more likely to use nets for fowling. Norway in particular was famous for its hawks and falcons, many of which were exported. The Norwegian king maintained a monopoly on all hunting birds in his domains, regardless of private ownership of land. In Iceland the Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) was especially numerous, and was trapped and sold to Danish merchants.
In Greenland the Vikings trapped the great white Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), the bird of kings. The Gyrfalcons were worth enormous sums, and were given to kings or exported to rich men abroad.
The book Konungs Skuggsjá (The King's Mirror, known in Latin as Speculum Regalae), written in 1250 AD, after the end of the Viking Age (the Viking Age dates ca. 800-1100AD), discusses Greenland's falcons:
There are also many large hawks in the land, which in other countries would be counted very precious, - white falcons, and they are more numerous there than in any other country; but the natives do not know how to make any use of them.
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Deitsche Übersetzung:
In Greenland the Vikings trapped the great white Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), the bird of kings. The Gyrfalcons were worth enormous sums, and were given to kings or exported to rich men abroad.
The book Konungs Skuggsjá (The King's Mirror, known in Latin as Speculum Regalae), written in 1250 AD, after the end of the Viking Age (the Viking Age dates ca. 800-1100AD), discusses Greenland's falcons:
There are also many large hawks in the land, which in other countries would be counted very precious, - white falcons, and they are more numerous there than in any other country; but the natives do not know how to make any use of them.
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Artikel: Birds in Subsistence and Culture at Viking Age Sites in Denmark
This paper reviews the evidence for consumption and use of birds at Danish Viking
Age sites. The presence and diversity of wild and domestic bird species were studied
on the basis of the avian material retrieved from sites representing a wide range
of different habitats covering a period from the Late Germanic Iron Age to early medieval
times (ca 5th–12th centuries ad). A large diversity of at least 20 avian families with more than 60 taxa in addition
to domestic fowl was documented. Although variation in species diversity and abundance
in the assemblages were influenced by recovery methods, some genuine differences emerged
regarding site type as well as topographical and geographic variation. Marked differences
among avian species within certain bird families were revealed; herons (Ardeidae),
birds of prey (Accipitridae), cranes (Gruidae), tetraonids (Tetraonidae) and waders
(Scolopacidae) occurred more commonly at certain categories of sites such as high‐status
manorial and early urban sites. The usage of eagle feathers was evidenced by cut marks
on eagle wing bones and falconry was documented at a few high‐status sites.
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