Viking Age slavery

thumb|Erling Skjalgsson sets his thralls to day-work ([[Erik Werenskiold, 1899)]]

waves of systematic slave trades in the history of Sweden, which were pillars of the Norse economy

commerce of slaves by Danes during the Viking Age and the Modern Age

Icelandic slave

Melkorka (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ) is the name given in Landnámabók and Laxdæla saga for the Irish mother of the Icelandic goði Ólafr Höskuldsson. It is possible that her name represents the Irish Mael Curcaig.