Sökning: "viking religion"

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  1. 1. Från ritualiserad tradition till institutionaliserad religion : Strategier för maktlegitimering på Gotland under järnålder och medeltid

    Författare :Torsten Blomkvist; Britt-Mari Näsström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Gotland; religion; ritualised tradition; ancestor worship; oral tradition; power; genealogies; legitimacy of power; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two principal aims. The first is to critically discuss the concept of an ancient Scandinavian religion. The second one is to create, from the terms ritualised tradition and (institutionalised) religion a theory of social change on Gotland during the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

    Författare :Neil Price; Martin Carver; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Viking Age; Vikings; Óðinn; seiðr; sorcery; shamanism; warfare; Norse religion; Norse mythology; Sámi; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Suspended Value : Using Coins as Pendants in Viking-Age Scandinavia (c. AD 800–1140)

    Författare :Florent Audy; Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Anders Andrén; Dagfinn Skre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coin-pendants; archaeology; numismatics; Viking-Age Scandinavia; material culture; economy; religion; craftsmanship; Birka; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The use of coins as pendants is a common practice in the Scandinavian Viking Age (c. AD 800–1140). About three per cent of the coins circulating in Scandinavia show signs of having been adapted for suspension, either with a small hole or a loop. Modifying coins in this way changes the nature of the object. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Barshalder 1 : A cemetery in Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1-1100. Excavations and finds 1826-1971

    Författare :Martin Rundkvist; Ingmar Jansson; Siv Kristoffersen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Barshalder; Grötlingbo; Fide; Gotland; cemetery; graves; burial; Iron Age; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; Vendel Period; Viking Period; landscape history; gender; typology; chronology; seriation; correspondence analysis; social stratification; status; religion; paganism; Christianity; Christianisation; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The cemetery was used from c. AD 1-1100. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Barshalder 2 : Studies of late Iron Age Gotland

    Författare :Martin Rundkvist; Ingmar Jansson; Siv Kristoffersen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Barshalder; Grötlingbo; Fide; Gotland; cemetery; graves; burial; Iron Age; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; Vendel Period; Viking Period; landscape history; gender; typology; chronology; seriation; correspondence analysis; social stratification; status; religion; paganism; Christianity; Christianisation; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The ceme-tery was used from c. AD 1-1100. LÄS MER