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- Myrberg, Nanouschka
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Svears rätt och nationalismens drake. : Om en mytisk gemenskap.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Meta: medeltidsarkeologisk tidskrift. - 0348-7903. ; :2, s. 57-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Prevalence of the Svear and the Dragon of Nationalism.The Swedish kingdom has changed its shape many times over the centuries. Different land areas and languages have been included or lost with the political changes. Sweden got its name from the Svear, a Germanic tribe of the central eastern Swedish area (Svealand). Why was Svealand and not any other region perceived of as the centre for the whole nation?Cultural and ethnic identity is created in relation to others, but also from a sense of belonging with a certain group. Ethnic belonging is primarily defined by the existence of a common myth of origin, including a common history and cosmological features. Such myths may also be used to manipulate and negotiate power. The importance of the Svear in the early state-formation rested less on economical or military powers than upon a central religious role in prehistory. This role was reactivated over the centuries by different rulers, as a means of legitimizing power through “archaization” and active use of genealogies. Through a chain of successive uses of the past over the centuries, the Svear have continued to represent the “Swedes”. This is one explanation for the name of the present kingdom, as well as for centralization to that area of state powers, which have only recently started to dissolve. Still, to understand how an ethnic community came into being is not to argue its supremacy over others; any society is responsible of how power, democracy and tolerance are applied within it.
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka, 1969-
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The colour of money : crusaders and coins in the thirteenth-century Baltic Sea
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Making sense of things. - Stockholm : Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies. - 9789197825726 ; , s. 83-102
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper investigates how colour was perceived differently in the European Middle Ages and carried significance beyond what we ascribe it today. It also considers how the various colours worked as important carriers of values and concepts in this context, where pigments were rare and expensive. A way to access the medieval understanding of colour is through heraldry and its colours, the tinctures, which combine hard and soft materials, even and three-dimensional surfaces, in a way that evades present-day definitions of colour. Medieval people used their senses in a cross-modal way to perceive colour and connect it to an intricate world of symbolism and values. To them, it is argued, colour was a texture just as much as a hue. The aim of the paper is to investigate this relationship between colour, ideas and materiality, filtered through the senses, and made manifest in a group of thirteenth-century Scandinavian coins. Were coins actually perceived as coloured?
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka, 1969-
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The Hoarded Dead : Late Iron Age silver hoards as graves
- 2009. - 500
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Ingår i: Döda Personers Sällskap. - Stockholm : Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur. - 9789197825702 ; , s. 131-145
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As archaeologists increasingly recognise alternative ways of dealing with death and burial – in heaps of fire-cracked stones, settlement debris etc. – new inquiries and alternative explanations may be presented. This paper proposes that the hoarding of precious metals was one way of burying the dead during the Scandinavian Late Iron Age, through the inclusion of a few of the dead person’s belongings, or objects thought to be good metaphors for him or her. The contents of the hoard, as well as the act of depositing it, were considered to be essential for the correct transition of the dead person into their new status in the afterlife. Thus, as part of a social contract between the dead and the living, it was in everybody’s interest to properly “create an ancestor”.
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka
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The Imperative Way
- 2006
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Ingår i: Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives. - 918911681X ; , s. 45-49
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper addresses a category of archaeological remains or monuments called “field labyrinths”. These monuments are often described as “mysterious” monuments since little is known about when or why they were created, and what their inherent meaning is or was. Although they seem to have been connected to ritual, cult and superstition, older Scandinavian written sources say nothing about their existence. I will try to shed light on some of these mysteries through a discussion of certain aspects of the labyrinths, focusing on the Swedish ones made of stone.
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka, 1969-
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The social identity of coin hoards : An example of theory and practice in the space between numismatics and archaeology
- 2009
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Ingår i: Coins in context I. - Mainz : Philipp von Zabern. - 9783805340915 ; , s. 157-171
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Silver coin hoarding is a distinct feature of the Viking Age in some northern European areas, and these hoards convey much information about coin types and chronologies to numismatists. However, there is still no explanation of the custom itself. I argue that hoards should be considered in terms of social categories or genders as a means to understand the specific reasons behind their deposition. This contribution provides examples of approach through contextualizing hoards and their contents. I also propose some theoretical premises regarding the role of numismatics in the space between archaeology, history, economic history and art history. Numismatics as a discipline must develop an explicit research agenda of its own in order to benefit equally from the numismatist’s knowledge of a coin’s primary context (origin), as well as secondary (use and reuse) and tertiary contexts (deposition). Coins do not belong to one single context; neither the one of primary interest to the historian, nor just that which the archaeologist encounters. A numismatic approach sensitive to all contexts opens a wealth of information in terms of the life biography of objects, social relationships, and the routines and cognitive patterns of the society which produced, used and deposited coins.
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- Myrberg, Nanouschka
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Value and worth. : On the earliest coinage of Gotland, Sweden, c. 1140-1290.
- 2005
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Ingår i: XIII Congreso internacional de numismática, Madrid 2003.. - 8181812646 ; , s. 1223-1229
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to give some aspects on the first, medieval, coinage of Gotland, an island on the eastern coast of Sweden, in the Baltic Sea.Gotland is today a part of Sweden but has for a long time been considered to be rather autonomous. This picture is perhaps confirmed by its autonomous coinage. I will argue that the historical importance of this coinage is not primarily as being a part of the raise of a state power, of a new monetary system or of trading relations. Neither is the medieval coinage to be regarded as simply a consequence of the autonomous status of the island. Instead I see it as an active manifestation of Gotland’s status and of the self-image of its inhabitants, and from the beginning a part of the creation and re-creation of this image.
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- Myrberg, Sara
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Focus type effects on focal accents and boundary tones
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2013. - Linköping : Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University. - 9789175195827 ; , s. 53-56
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper presents a production experiment on the prosodic realization of focus types in Stockholm Swedish. It is shown that focal accents are realized with higher f0 and longer duration when signalling narrow or corrective focus, than when signalling all-new focus. In addition, focal accents are more often followed by a L% when signalling narrow or corrective focus, and f0 falls due to L% are larger.
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- Myrberg, Sara, 1983-
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The Intonational Phonology of Stockholm Swedish
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis develops the phonological model for the Stockholm Swedish intonation system. Though previous research provides a general model of this system, many phonological aspects of it have remained understudied. The intonational options that are available to speakers of Stockholm Swedish are discussed, and it is argued that Stockholm Swedish provides evidence for complex branching of phonological domains.Specifically, it is argued that so called focal accents, which are referred to as (H)LH-accents in the present work, have essentially two different functions. First, they signal information structural categories such as focus. Second, they signal left edges of Intonation Phrases (IP). It is also argued that a wide range of options exist in the post-nuclear area. Six types of contours for such areas are distinguished, plus one additional rising contour when there are no post-nuclear accents.Based on these findings, I present an account of the branching options for the phonological categories in the Stockholm Swedish prosodic hierarchy. I argue that there is evidence for recursive phonological structures in Stockholm Swedish, i.e. that a mother node and a daughter node can belong to the same phonological category. Also, Stockholm Swedish provides evidence for a distinction between prosodic coordination (equal sister nodes) and prosodic adjunction (unequal sister nodes). Prosodic structure is mapped onto syntactic structure via a set of variably ranked Optimality Theoretic constraints. The relation between phonological and syntactic structure shows that the phonology prefers prosodic coordination (equal sisters) over adjunction (unequal sisters).The material for the study comprises a corpus of approximately 420 read sentences, which were specifically designed to test various phonological hypotheses, and approximately 17 minutes of uncontrolled speech.
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