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Books by Sigmund Oehrl
Klaus Düwel, Robert Nedoma, Sigmund Oehrl: Die Südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 119, 2020
https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/526447?lang=en&language=de
Papers by Sigmund Oehrl
Bear and Human Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe. TANE 3, 2023
The paper constitutes a survey of bear depictions in the 1 st millennium AD from Sweden, Norway, ... more The paper constitutes a survey of bear depictions in the 1 st millennium AD from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as well as Scandinavian-influenced parts of England, including certain, almost certain, and possible images of bears. Chronologically, the relevant material ranges from the Roman Iron Age to the Late Viking Age, most of it dating to the Merovingian/Vendel Period and the Early Viking Age. The images occur in quite different contexts, on different objects and bearing different possible meanings (military and heroic contexts, commemoration and sepulchral contexts, female jewellery, figurines and more). Some recent finds are also considered. The main conclusion is that there are many more depictions to be considered, and that the bear is not as rare in Late Iron Age and Viking art as many scholars have so far supposed.
Sivs festskrift. Primitive tider, spesialutgave, 2023
New Narratives for the First Millennium AD? Alte und neue Perspektiven der archäologischen Forschung zum 1. Jahrtausend n. Chr. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung Band 11, 2022
frá haug ok heiðni - arkeologi i Rogaland, 2022
Michaela Helmbrecht / Alexandra Pesch (ed.), Gold foil figures in focus. A Scandinavian find group and related objects and images from ancient and medieval Europe. Schriften des Museums für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf, Ergänzungsreihe, Vol. 14 (München 2019), 389–426.
Wilhelm Heizmann / Sigmund Oehrl (ed.), Bilddenkmäler zur germanischen Götter- und Heldensage. Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 91 (Berlin/Boston 2015), 463–534.
Dirk Steinforth / Charles Rozier (ed.), Britain and its Neighbours. Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Routledge Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History (London, New York 2021), 15–30.
Wilhelm Heizmann / Matthias Egeler (eds.), Between the Worlds. Contexts, Sources and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys. Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 118 (Berlin/Boston 2020), 117–184.
Medieval Archaeology, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2021.2000250
Matthias Toplak (ed.), Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie.Sonderheft 20/2021 Jahrgang 1/2021 der Zeitschrift »Archäologie in Deutschland«
Zeitschrift Fur Deutsches Altertum Und Deutsche Literatur, 2010
Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 2019, 2020
Raptor on the fist – falconry, its imagery and similar motifs throughout the millennia on a global scale, 2020
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2019
Klaus Düwel, Robert Nedoma, Sigmund Oehrl: Die Südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 119, 2020
https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/526447?lang=en&language=de
Bear and Human Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe. TANE 3, 2023
The paper constitutes a survey of bear depictions in the 1 st millennium AD from Sweden, Norway, ... more The paper constitutes a survey of bear depictions in the 1 st millennium AD from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as well as Scandinavian-influenced parts of England, including certain, almost certain, and possible images of bears. Chronologically, the relevant material ranges from the Roman Iron Age to the Late Viking Age, most of it dating to the Merovingian/Vendel Period and the Early Viking Age. The images occur in quite different contexts, on different objects and bearing different possible meanings (military and heroic contexts, commemoration and sepulchral contexts, female jewellery, figurines and more). Some recent finds are also considered. The main conclusion is that there are many more depictions to be considered, and that the bear is not as rare in Late Iron Age and Viking art as many scholars have so far supposed.
Sivs festskrift. Primitive tider, spesialutgave, 2023
New Narratives for the First Millennium AD? Alte und neue Perspektiven der archäologischen Forschung zum 1. Jahrtausend n. Chr. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung Band 11, 2022
frá haug ok heiðni - arkeologi i Rogaland, 2022
Michaela Helmbrecht / Alexandra Pesch (ed.), Gold foil figures in focus. A Scandinavian find group and related objects and images from ancient and medieval Europe. Schriften des Museums für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf, Ergänzungsreihe, Vol. 14 (München 2019), 389–426.
Wilhelm Heizmann / Sigmund Oehrl (ed.), Bilddenkmäler zur germanischen Götter- und Heldensage. Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 91 (Berlin/Boston 2015), 463–534.
Dirk Steinforth / Charles Rozier (ed.), Britain and its Neighbours. Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Routledge Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History (London, New York 2021), 15–30.
Wilhelm Heizmann / Matthias Egeler (eds.), Between the Worlds. Contexts, Sources and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys. Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 118 (Berlin/Boston 2020), 117–184.
Medieval Archaeology, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2021.2000250
Matthias Toplak (ed.), Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie.Sonderheft 20/2021 Jahrgang 1/2021 der Zeitschrift »Archäologie in Deutschland«
Zeitschrift Fur Deutsches Altertum Und Deutsche Literatur, 2010
Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 2019, 2020
Raptor on the fist – falconry, its imagery and similar motifs throughout the millennia on a global scale, 2020
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2019
Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion In Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia, 2019
A pot and a bowl from Bierden FStNr. 5 were previously regarded as an early Roman Iron Age urn ... more A pot and a bowl from Bierden FStNr. 5 were
previously regarded as an early Roman Iron Age urn and
its lid, whereas the rune-like carvings on the bowl were
not noticed. A new detailed investigation has shown that
the pieces date to the 4th/5th centuries AD, and that they
originate from a settlement close to the find spot. Cre-
mated bones which were found together with the pottery,
previously regarded as human remains, turned out to be
animal bones. As a result, the pot and the bowl definitely
do not represent an urn and its lid. New methods of digi-
tal imaging help to identify the characters inscribed onto
the poorly preserved surface. The pros and cons of their
interpretation as runic are discussed, and a runological
reading is suggested. The authors take the view that there
are at least four runes, composed as a ligature (bind runes).
However, a linguistic interpretation cannot be presented.
Nevertheless, the carving is an important find, increasing
the small corpus of Saxon runic inscriptions, representing a
rare example of runic inscriptions on
Human-avian relationships developed in many ways throughout the Iron Age, particularly in the 1st... more Human-avian relationships developed in many ways throughout the Iron Age, particularly in the 1st millennium AD in Central and Northern Europe. These airborne animals foraged and scavenged close to settlements, inviting interactions – wild birds were hunted, and domesticated poultry were bred for meat, feathers and eggs; other birds were kept for entertainment or sport, with raptors trained for falconry. Aves also played significant roles in pre-Christian beliefs and rituals of Iron Age societies: they were sacrificed as votive offerings, included in funerary rites, used for divination, and feature as symbols in both pre-Christian and early Christian iconographies.
Bird remains are frequently recovered from a range of everyday and ritual contexts (e.g. settlements, pits, wells, graves). Avian iconography features on many objects (e.g. jewellery, weaponry, carved stones) in different manners (e.g. Germanic animal styles). Written sources – such as Roman (e.g. Pliny the Elder’s The Natural History) and Medieval accounts (e.g. Old Norse literature) – tell of the roles birds played in these cultures.
The main aim of the session is to discuss interdisciplinary research on human-bird relations in the 1st millennium AD in Northern and Central Europe. During the session, we will examine the roles of birds in daily life and their symbolic meanings in pre-Christian and early Christian belief systems of Iron Age cultures, including Roman influences. Papers regarding Eastern and Mediterranean parallels are also welcome. We would like to invite researchers who study such themes not only in the scope of archaeology, anthropology, and zooarchaeology, but also history, art history, history of religions, and philology.
Die PTM-Dateien (Polynomal Texture Mapping) basieren auf der Reflectance Transformation Imaging M... more Die PTM-Dateien (Polynomal Texture Mapping) basieren auf der Reflectance Transformation Imaging Methode (RTI). Um sie offnen zu konnen, wird der RTIViewer benotigt, der auf der Webseite von "Cultural Heritage Imaging" als Open Source Software zur Verfugung steht: http://culturalheritageimaging.org/What_We_Offer/Downloads/View/index.html
This is not the published final version of the chapter.
Andreas Rau, Marion Bertram, Dieter Quast: Das Schwert mit dem goldenen Griff. Eine Prunkbestattung der Völkerwanderungszeit, 2019