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- Bornfalk Back, Anders
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Till frågan om Mora ting : ett arkeologiskt perspektiv
- 2021
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 116:3, s. 205-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The phenomenon of the medieval royal election thing of Mora, on the outskirts of Uppsala in central Sweden, is an under-researched topic from an archaeological viewpoint. With the archaeological material in focus, the author reviews the current state of research and offers a new hypothesis about the development of Mora as a non-continuous thing site with three phases: in the 500s, 1300s and1400s. It connects to long debated questions such as where in Mora the actual thing was located, why Mora was chosen to host this important ceremonial act, and how the semi-mythical “Stone of Mora” is to be understood.
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- Herschend, Frands, 1948-
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Järnåldersarkitekter, universitetsforskare, uppdragsarkeologer och kulturmiljövården
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 113:1, s. 34-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims mainly to analyse the relationship between university scholars andheritage conservation by means of two examples: Iron Age house types, which ishistory, and the analysis of planned Iron Age architecture, which has not yet benefitedsufficiently from contract archaeology. I recognise the duty of universityscholars to develop research topics that may be useful to contract archaeology aswell as to heritage conservation and university archaeology. As a topic of research,I suggest a cognitively based understanding of Iron Age house planning and construction.I suggest that an important understanding of cognitive history can berelated to a shift in Iron Age building principles: in the Early Iron Age form followsfunction, but in the Late Iron Age construction principles give form.
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- Herschend, Frands, Professor, 1948-
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Vad är det Háv hänger på i Hávamál?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 116:4, s. 281-296
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on an introductory account of the shortcomings of a purely archaeological endeavour to understand the cultural history of the 1st millennium CE, this casestudy begins with an interpretation of the Old Norse word meiðr. This is followed up by a short comparative analysis of the function of the oe words beam and ródin the Dream of the Rood. Thus, having been inspired by Old Norse and Old English texts, the next step is an analysis of two archaeological excavations in which several constructions seem to qualify as a meiðr in the everyday sense of the word. Essentially, the word means ’drying rack’ and as a construction it consists of two vertical poles with crutches, which support a horizontal rod that joins them together. On this rod more or less anything may hang – even Háv during his rite of passage merging with Oðinn.
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- Lindqvist Sandgren, Eva, 1960-, et al.
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Det broderade relikvariet i Linköpings domkyrka
- 2018
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 113:4, s. 184-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the embroidered skull reliquary on foot, kept in the Linköping Castle and Cathedral Museum (SHM 3920:6). The reliquary was examined by Agnes Branting and Andreas Lindblom in 1928 and discussed in this journal by Axel Romdahl in 1929. Inger Estham describes the object in the 2001 publication on Linköping Cathedral and suggests that it was a gift from Vadstena Abbey to the cathedral for the translation of Bishop Nils Hermansson's relics in 1515. Our analysis of the textiles, the embroidery, the traces of lost ornaments and the iconography has led us to believe that the assumed provenance from the hands of the nuns of Vadstena Abbey is correct. However, the decoration on top of the lid, forming a typical Birgittine crown, would not be correct for a bishop: it wouldinstead be most appropriate for a Birgittine nun. Furthermore, the decoration and the execution of the embroidery correspond to textile production in Vadstena Abbey in the mid-15th century, not the early 16th. Finally, a description of the skull reliquary used at the translation of St. Catherine of Vadstena in 1489 fits rather well with what the Linköping reliquary is likely to have looked like originally. We therefore dismiss the reliquary's association with the translation of Bishop Nils Hermansson in 1515 and instead suggest a date no later than 1489.
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- Ojala, Karin, et al.
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Bronsålderns benbruk i östra Mellansverige : med exempel på variation i gravskicket vid Broby och Hallunda
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : ROYAL ACADEMY LETTERS, HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 116:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the Late Bronze Age in the eastern parts of Central Sweden, the remains of the deceased were treated in many different ways. In addition to cairns and stone settings (which are usually regarded as graves), human bones, cremated as well as not cremated, have also been found in settlements, in heaps of fired cracked stones, wells, pits and in water. These "bone deposits" are made up of parts of people rather than complete bodies, and show a complex treatment of the dead (see, for example, Thedeen 2004; Eriksson 2005; Fredengren 2011). The purpose of this article is to study and discuss the highly varied practice of treating the remains of the deceased in eastern Central Sweden during the Late Bronze Age. This issue is discussed through two very well-known Bronze Age sites: Hallunda, Botkyrka parish in Sodermanland and Broby, BOrje parish in Uppland. In the article we argue that the bone deposits found in the area must partly be seen in a different way than a "grave" in the sense of a place for the deceased's last resting place. We highlight circumstances which indicate that the human bones that are found are the result of ritual processes with different phases, rather than individual "burials" with the grave as a last resting place for the dead. We also argue that a distinctive feature in the treatment of the remains of the dead in eastern Central Sweden is that the link between the dead individual and the "grave monument" (which is central to the concept of the grave) is weak.
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- Stilborg, Ole, et al.
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2000 år utan keramik? : mot en förståelse av keramiktraditionens försvinnande i Dalarna under mellanneolitikum
- 2022
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 117:1, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, a worn prehistoric ceramic sherd was found in a field outside the city of Borlange in the province of Dalarna, central Sweden. The sherd has been identified as a fragment of a vessel belonging to the Battle Axe culture, the first one ever found in Dalarna. At the same time, the sherd is the youngest known Stone Age pottery in the province, and after that the craft seems to have disappeared. The first reappearance dates to the Early Iron Age, 500 BCE-400 CE. Both south and north of Dalarna, ceramic production carried on continuously from the time it was introduced during the Neolithic. With very few exceptions (including northernmost Norway), this applies to the entire northern circumpolar part of the world despite difficulties in finding raw materials, fuel and suitable weather to perform the craft. Dalarna offers all the prerequisites for producing pottery, but despite this, and despite decades of contract archeology in the province, it seems from the current state of research that this was not done for about 2000 years. The main question is therefore: how may we understand why the ceramic tradition ceased in Dalarna at the end of the Stone Age?
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