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Christopher Callow
issues, to being to ready to see Icelandic
uniqueness or of wishing to see Iceland
fitting into general European or sub-arc-
tic pictures. The references to phenom-
ena outside Iceland in this article are
designed as indications of some possible
connections rather than anything more
definitive: we lack the data everywhere
to be too dogmatic. There is also further
debate to be had between historians and
archaeologists of Iceland in connection
with childhood. Iceland being relatively
isolated and having a relatively unchang-
ing economic system, there is no doubt
more to discuss about common practices
over time rather than just looking ‘side-
ways’ for illumination from contempo-
rary or near-contemporary Europe.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank colleagues
in the Institute of Archaeology of Antiq-
uity, University of Birmingham, whose
interest in the archaeology of children
has fostered mine; earlier versions of
this paper to the IAA Childhood semi-
nar in November 2004 and at a Leeds
International Medieval Congress session
in 2005. I am very grateful to Martin
Smith, Hildur Gestsdóttir, Gavin Lucas,
Sally Crawford, Gillian Shepherd, Megan
Brickley, Charlotte Mejsholm, Adolf
Friðriksson, Simon Mays and Erlend
Hindmarch for discussing issues relating
to this paper, in some cases quite exten-
sively. Guðný Zoéga, Hildur and Gavin
kindly provided reports and images in
advance of publication. I am also grate-
ful to Helen Fisher, Gavin, Hildur and an
anonymous reviewer for comments on
and suggested improvements to versions
of the paper. Any remaining errors of fact
and interpretation are my own.
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