{"id":70,"date":"2013-11-13T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2021-03-21T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T14:55:08","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Probate inventories - D\u00e1narb\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vefur verkefnisins var \u00ed desember 2020 settur upp hj\u00e1 \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0skjalasafni \u00cdslands \u00e1 sl\u00f3\u00f0inni <a href=\"https:\/\/danarbu.skjalasafn.is\/\">danarbu.skjalasafn.is<\/a> og \u00fear eru n\u00fdtilegar lei\u00f0beiningar \u00e1samt \u00fdmsum fylgig\u00f6gnum.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the mass of preserved Icelandic probate inventories from the period 1740-1900. These documents contain detailed lists of recently deceased persons\u2019 private belongings, farming utensils and cattle. They were made by local officials (hreppstj\u00f3ri) and district sheriffs (s\u00fdsluma\u00f0ur), and are now kept in the National Archives in Reykjav\u00edk. There are almost 2000 inventories from the years 1740-1800 and close to 30 thousand from the nineteenth century as a whole, most of them from the years 1830-1870. Close to 40 percent of these inventories concern women. The project has two goals:<br \/>\na) A critical evaluation of the reliability and validity of these important historical sources.<br \/>\nb) An investigation into the ways they can be used in order to enhance our knowledge and understanding of Icelandic society before the advent of mechanisation.<\/p>\n<p>Verkefni\u00f0 felst \u00ed \u00fattekt og greiningu \u00e1 var\u00f0veittum d\u00e1narb\u00faum og skiptab\u00f3kum fr\u00e1 mi\u00f0ri 18. \u00f6ld til loka 19. aldar. \u00deessi g\u00f6gn geyma n\u00e1kv\u00e6mar skr\u00e1r yfir eftirl\u00e1tnar eigur f\u00f3lks og taka til fatna\u00f0ar, s\u00e6ngurfata, matar\u00edl\u00e1ta, verkf\u00e6ra og b\u00fafj\u00e1r. Forsendan var s\u00fa a\u00f0 arfaskipti f\u00e6ru fram v\u00e6ru erfingjar \u00f3myndugir e\u00f0a fjarverandi. Talning sem \u00e9g framkv\u00e6mdi \u00ed fyrra leiddi \u00ed lj\u00f3s a\u00f0 til eru um 1500 d\u00e1narb\u00fa fr\u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed fyrir 1800 en r\u00edflega 22 \u00fe\u00fasund fr\u00e1 19. \u00f6ld, flest fr\u00e1 \u00e1ratugunum 1830-1870. N\u00e1kv\u00e6m skr\u00e1ning \u00e1 \u00f6llum tilt\u00e6kum d\u00e1narb\u00faum \u00e1 Vesturlandi lei\u00f0ir \u00ed lj\u00f3s a\u00f0 l\u00edklega er talan nokkru h\u00e6rri. \u00deetta \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ir er til er d\u00e1narb\u00fa eftir um \u00fea\u00f0 bil fimmta hvern l\u00e1tinn fullor\u00f0inn einstakling. Var\u00f0veisla er g\u00f3\u00f0 \u00ed \u00f6llum s\u00fdslum landsins. Flest d\u00e1narb\u00fain eru eftir f\u00f3lk \u00e1 aldrinum 40-70 \u00e1ra og um 40 af hundra\u00f0i \u00feeirra eru eftir konur. Eignadreifing er mikil \u00ed \u00feeim skilningi a\u00f0 hinir l\u00e1tnu eru jafnt f\u00e1t\u00e6kir sem r\u00edkir og allt \u00fear \u00e1 milli. G\u00f6gn \u00feessi ur\u00f0u til \u00e1 fyrri \u00f6ldum en s\u00fdslumenn f\u00f3ru ekki a\u00f0 halda \u00feeim til haga fyrr en eftir a\u00f0 erf\u00f0akafli Norsku laga fr\u00e1 1687 var leiddur \u00ed l\u00f6g h\u00e9rlendis \u00e1ri\u00f0 1769. N\u00fd skiptal\u00f6g \u00e1ri\u00f0 1877 ur\u00f0u s\u00ed\u00f0an til \u00feess a\u00f0 skr\u00e1\u00f0um d\u00e1narb\u00faum f\u00e6kka\u00f0i og n\u00e1kv\u00e6mni skr\u00e1ningar var\u00f0 minni. Markmi\u00f0 verkefnisins er a\u00f0 meta \u00e1rei\u00f0anleika \u00feessara heimilda og skilgreina t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri til ranns\u00f3kna sem \u00ed \u00feeim felast til aukinnar \u00feekkingar og skilnings \u00e1 \u00edslensku samf\u00e9lagi fram til 1900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vefur verkefnisins var \u00ed desember 2020 settur upp hj\u00e1 \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0skjalasafni \u00cdslands \u00e1 sl\u00f3\u00f0inni danarbu.skjalasafn.is og \u00fear eru n\u00fdtilegar lei\u00f0beiningar \u00e1samt \u00fdmsum fylgig\u00f6gnum. An investigation into the mass of preserved Icelandic probate inventories from the period 1740-1900. These documents contain detailed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/research\/\">Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/marj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}