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- Ambrosiani, Björn, et al.
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Small things and wide horizons from a Birka perspective
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small things wide horizons : studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh. - 9781784911317
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The excavations of one of the plots in the Black Earth at Birka revealed an unusually large number of objects associated with long-distance eastern contacts. Among the objects was a Volga Bulgarian pot and a hoard containing Volga Bulgarian imitations of dirhams. The surprisingly high proportion of Volga Bulgarian coins in the hoard indicates that the person(s) who lived on the plot in the mid tenth century may actually have spent time in Volga Bulgaria. It is no coincidence that the finds point to this region. In the tenth century several important trade routes converged in this area, where Rus’, Khazarian and Muslim merchants came to trade.
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- Ekengren, Fredrik, et al.
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The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh - Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 20-26
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study suggests a predominantly socially-strategic function of the silver found in Viking Age hoards, more specifically, connected to the realm of customary law and the blood feud as a social institution. This suggestion is based on a quantitative and contextual analysis of the Íslendingasögur, and a comparison between the function of silver in the sagas and the composition and context of the hoards.
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- Gräslund, Anne-Sofie, 1940-
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Rune-stones and the localisation of graves : Burial cusoms in the Conversion period
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Things -Wide Horizons. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 169-174
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the rune-stone U 395 from Sigtuna and its inscription He brought her to Sigtunaas a starting point, the earliest Christian burials in Sigtuna and Lund are compared. Both towns probably functioned as an important necropolis for its hinterland in the early Christian period. People in Uppland who lacked the possibility to bring their dead to such a necropolis continued to bury at the traditional cemetery, but according to a new burial method and in a new type of grave. Examples of locations of graves in the early Christian period from various provinces known from runic inscriptions or from archaeological evidence are discussed. The conclusion is that the diversity and complexity are evident.
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- Hansson, Martin, et al.
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Gold in Guleboda. A Byzantine gold coin from southern Småland
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 86-90
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to discuss the find of a Byzantine solidus in Guleboda, Älmeboda parish, southern Småland. This coin was found in an area that has never been central in any respect, and where at first sight there hardly seems to have been any Iron Age settlement at all. The purpose of the article is to try to contextualize the find. Other finds from the same site are discussed as well as contemporary gold objects in the region. It is argued that the fact that the coin has been worn as a pendant could imply that it was used as an insignia, perhaps as a token for the wearer’s participation in military raids on the Continent.
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- Jonsson, Kenneth, 1950-
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Viking age coins found in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small things wide horizons. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 51-57
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Larsson, Lars, et al.
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Birgitta Hårdh : A bibiography
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh - Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 301-301
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Larsson, Lars, et al.
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Close to Asgard : between West and South
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh - Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh. - 9781784911317 ; , s. 110-114
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Neiß (Neiss), Michael, 1977-
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A female statement of power? : Some reflections on the Viking Age Yelets-brooch
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small things – wide horizons. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781784911317 - 9781784911324 ; , s. 126-131
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Prehistoric pictures are a special sort of source material. Pictures are not random products – they were created to convey messages. This statement applies especially to the oral culture of the Viking Age. However, Viking Age pictures rarely occur as independent monuments. More often, they appear as animal art on metal artefacts. The starting point for my reflections is the grandiose brooch from Yelets, Russia. Here, we find an anthropomorphic figure with a bird-like body, possibly linking the object to the princely House of Rurik. Being a female dress adornment, we might ask whether it represents the might of the dynasty or the power of an individual female known from written sources.
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