AbstractsPsychology

This thesis is intended as an investigation of knowing how and what a tenth century swordsmith did in relation to crafting Viking swords, particularly focused upon the Norwegian materials and retrospective on previous scholarship. It is based upon the conceptual theory of deep history combined with an empirical methods approach, having a view to incorporating advances in ancillary disciplines in attempting to approach describing the smithery of tenth century Viking swords. Some of the currently existing ideas about swordsmithing, swords and the evidentiary support for those ideas are discussed from the above perspective. It is insisted that smithery was an empirical form of knowledge that was embodied in the smith before the smith could make the sword.