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The lost landscape of Borgring
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2022 Geoarchaeological investigations at Borgring, a recently identified Danish Viking Age ring fortress, reconstructs the original landscape showing how the site was expanded and modified to accommodate a structure of pre-defined size and how this large ...
Catherine Jessen +3 more
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Aristokrater, kvinner, kunnskap og makt – Vik fra romertid til vikingtid
Viking, 2018 Aristocrats, women, knowledge and power – Vik from the Roman Age to the Viking Age This paper is inspired by local interest in the relationship between the two farms Hove and Hopperstad in the settlement of Vik on the Sognefjord in Western Norway, from ...
Liv Helga Dommasnes
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Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2020 This study explores the underlying reasons behind the construction and topographical location of the Viking Age ring fortress, Borgring and the impact it had on the society on a regional scale.
Jens Molter Ulriksen +2 more
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Primitive Tider, 2021 In this paper, I discuss a potential market place for the exchange of goods at Sandtorg in Harstad municipality, Troms and Finnmark county during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages.
Tor-Ketil Krokmyrdal
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Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia [Elektronisk resurs]
, 2017 In this paper we utilize evolutionary theory, anthropological data, and historical sources to explore how marriage practices shaped social behaviours and attitudes towards gender in Viking-Age Scandinavia. We focus primarily on the normative practices of
Price, Neil +3 more
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Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie—Perthshire
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Roman impacts on local society is a subject of international significance. Loch Clunie, Perthshire, lies only 5.4 km from Inchtuthil, the only Roman legionary fortress in Scotland, and contains two crannogs and a probable lakeside hillfort. Despite this proximity and the likelihood of local–Roman interaction, these sites remain unexcavated ...
Samantha E. Jones +6 more
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A Viking burial at Balnakeil, Sutherland [PDF]
, 2012 A full discussion of a young Viking male pagan grave with full consideration of its context and broader significance in the context of the Norse in the British ...
Paterson, C., Batey, C.
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Tropes about Vikings and the Viking Age in State-funded Museums in Contemporary Scandinavia
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural ResearchThe popularity of the Vikings and the Viking Age in Scandinavian history cultures never seems to fade. As a projection surface for meaning-making needs in the present, the Viking Age constantly finds new ways to mirror the present, thus voicing new ...
Julia Håkansson
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Bylocks Drakskeppstrilogi – analogi och kulturmöten
Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2012 In my thesis “It could just as well have happened today”: Maj Bylock's Drakskeppstrilogi and historical consciousness in ten- to twelve-year-olds, I provide a textual, thematic analysis of the three novels from 1997–1998. Further, in an empirical study I
Mary Ingemansson
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