Sökning: "early Viking Age"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden early Viking Age.

1. 11. Casting Identities in Central Seclusion : Aspects of non-ferrous metalworking and society on Gotland in the Early Medieval Period

   Författare :Ny Björn Gustafsson; Lena Holmquist; Heidemarie Eilbracht; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeometallurgy; Non-ferrous; Archaeological prospection; Metal detection; Geophysical survey; Sweden; Magnetometry; Gotland; Iron Age; Viking Period; Archaeological Science; laborativ arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis has been to investigate and interpret late Iron Ageand Early Medieval traces of non-ferrous metalworking on the islandGotland, Sweden. Gotland was not, based on the archaeological record, anintegrated part of the common Scandinavian culture. LÄS MER

3. 12. The awakening of Christianity in Iceland : Discovery of a timber church and graveyard at Þórarinsstaðir in Seyðisfjörður

   Författare :Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Christianization; continuity of cult; Christianity; Paganism; stave-church; timber church; private churches; missionary churches; mission; infiltration; graves; crosses; altar stone; silver ring; coin; weight; tephro-chronology; micro-archaeology; macro-archaeology; long-term processes; metaphors; Viking Age; Early Medieval Times; Thórarinsstadhir; Iceland; Northern Europe;

   Sammanfattning : The central theme of this thesis is the Christianization of Iceland during the period from the late 10th century to the turn of the 12th century. The distinct, though similar, branches of Christianity are traced through the archaeological record, where the excavation of an Early Medieval timber church and graveyard at Thórarinsstadhir in Seydhisfjördhur is used as a basic source. LÄS MER

4. 13. Ship and Society : Maritime Ideology in Late Iron Age Sweden

   Författare :Gunilla Larsson; Ola Kyhlberg; Mats G. Larsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Ships; Seafaring; Society; Late Iron Age; shipbuilding methods; symbols; sacrifices; boat burials; ideology; leiðangr; long distance journeys; river routes.; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the relation between ship and society against a background of ideological and technological changes in Late Iron Age Sweden. It discusses the factors behind the development of ‘a maritime society’, why ships and seafaring came to play an important role that was also reflected in the use of the ship as a symbol and a metaphor in a military context, as well as in religion, administration, jurisdiction and social life. LÄS MER

5. 14. Our Bones, who art contaminated : Glues, strontium isotopes, and mobility in early Swedish Christians

   Författare :Crista Adelle Wathen; Kerstin Lidén; Sven Isaksson; Christophe Snoeck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Strontium isotopes; contamination; conservation; glues; Christianity; mobility; early Christians; Sweden; Varnhem; Västerhus; bones; teeth; Scientific Archaeology; arkeologi med inriktning mot laborativ arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to build upon previous research into contamination and its effects on isotopes by focusing on the strontium isotopic ratio (87Sr/86Sr), which is used in mobility studies to study the movements of past humans and animals and to build past economic trading networks. Contamination is a broad topic, and in the scope of this thesis, it concerns the introduction of contaminants from the soil after interment and the post-excavation preservation efforts. LÄS MER

7. 15. Visuella textkonventioner i den tidiga vikingatidens runristningar

   Författare :Hanna Åkerström; Henrik Williams; Anna-Malin Karlsson; Källström Magnus; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; runic inscriptions; early Viking Age; inventory of runic inscriptions; Scandinavia; inscriptions on portable objects; runestones; reading order; social semiotics; multimodality; monosequentiality; multisequentiality; hypertext theory; Bo Boije4 Skee; U ANF1937; 163 Björkö; DR NOR1988; 5 Malt; Ög 136 Rök; runinskrifter; tidig vikingatid; inventering av runinskrifter; Skandinavien; lösföremålsinskrifter; runstenar; läsordning; socialsemiotik; multimodalitet; monosekventialitet; multisekventialitet; hypertextteori; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines visual text conventions in the Nordic runic material from the early Viking Age and shows that visual meanings, as well as linguistic ones, can increase understanding of this complicated material. The thesis also provides a corpus of early Viking Age runic texts. The thesis comprises three investigations. LÄS MER