Viking Encounters. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Viking Congress (Anne Pedersen & Søren M. Sindbæk eds) (original) (raw)
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The list includes research peer reviewed papers and books, and selected reports and dissertations relating to the archaeology of Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora c. 750-1100 CE. Popular books are selectively included. Papers in popularizing journals are only occasionally included. The list is assembled through search in relevant journals and bibliographic databases, supplemented by helpful suggestions from colleagues. It is unlikely to be anything near complete. If you found this list helpful, and identified any missing items, please email me with references.
Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology
Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021
This paper reviews the achievements and challenges of archaeological research on Viking Age northern Europe and explores potential avenues for future research. We identify the reemergence of comparative and cross-cultural perspectives along with a turn toward studying mobility and maritime expansion, fueled by the introduction of biomolecular and isotopic data. The study of identity has seen a shift from a focus on collective beliefs and ritual to issues of personal identity and presentation, with a corresponding shift in attention to individual burials and the “animated objects.” Network ontologies have brought new perspectives on the emergence of sea trade and urban nodes and to the significance of outfield production and resources. Field archaeology has seen an emphasis on elite manors, feasting halls, and monuments, as well as military sites and thing assembly places, using new data from remote sensing, geophysical surveys, geoarchaeology, and metal detectors. Concerns over current climate change have placed the study of environment as a key priority, in particular in the ecologically vulnerable North Atlantic settlements. Discussing future directions, we call for alignment between societal/economic and individual/cultural perspectives, and for more ethically grounded research. We point to diaspora theory and intersectionality as frameworks with the potential to integrate genomics, identity, and society, and to ecology as a framework for integrating landscape, mobility, and political power.
Call for papers The Viking Age as a foreign place Vis conference 2021
2021
Rather than seeking similarities and trends, this conference will focus on what seems unfamiliar, exotic and even strange in what we perceive as the Viking Age. With this in mind, we will look into the way people interacted with the landscapes in which they lived, how they related to changing environmental preconditions, the way they related to human made objects, and the way narratives of their world were made, used and understood. An additional reception history approach to narratives about the Viking World will enable us better to see how, or if, these narratives influence our perception of the period today. Time/place: November 24-26th 2021, University of Oslo . We will open for registration in the first week of May when a final program and link for registration/payment will become available on our website https://www.khm.uio.no/forskning/forskergrupper/centre-for-viking-age-studies/arrangementer/vis-conference-2021-the-viking-age-as-a-foreign-pl.html
Eight papers presented at the 36th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium in Odense may 17th 2017. PREFACE / THE FORTIFIED VIKING AGE 36th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium – 17 May 2017................................................7 Mette Bruus & Jesper Hansen Henne Kirkeby Vest, a fortified settlement on the West coast of Denmark...................8 Lene B. Frandsen Erritsø – A fortified Early Viking Age manor near Lillebælt. New investigations and research perspectives................................................................ 16 Christian Juel & Mads Ravn …nú knáttu Óðin sjá: The Function of Hall-Based, Ritualised Performances of Old Norse Poetry in Pre-Christian Nordic Religion...................................................26 Simon Nygaard Early Viking camps in Scandinavia and abroad..............................................................35 Arjen Heijnis New archaeological investigations at Nonnebakken, a Viking Age fortress in Odense........................................................................................44 Mads Runge The Borgring Project 2016–2018..........................................................................................60 Jonas Christensen, Nanna Holm, Maja K. Schultz, Søren M. Sindbæk & Jens Ulriksen The Danevirke in the light of recent excavations.............................................................69 Astrid Tummuscheit & Frauke Witte Emporia, sceattas and kingship in 8th C. “Denmark”.....................................................75 Morten Søvsø
European Journal of Archaeology, 2016
The flexibility of material culture encourages material phenomena to take a dynamic part in social life. An example of this is material citation, which can provide society with links to both the past and connections to contemporary features. In this article, we look at the diverging ways of relating to and reinventing the past in the Viking Age, exploring citations to ancient monuments in the landscape of Gammel Lejre on Zealand, Denmark. Complementing the placement of landscape monuments, attention is also brought to examples of mortuary citations related to bodily practices in Viking-age mortuary dramas, such as those visible at the mound of Skopintull on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden. Through these case studies, we explore the variability in citational strategies found across tenth-century Scandinavia.