Shetland Norse settlers experienced internal conflicts over land allocation and authority in the late ninth century as the initial settlement phase gave way to the establishment of permanent family territories. The conflicts among Norse settlers in Shetland are poorly documented but represent the violent process by which the Norse thing assembly system was imposed on the islands and land rights were allocated to settler families.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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