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Excavations at the vicarage yard (prästgården) at the famous Late Iron Age magnate centre of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, have yielded six Viking Age (c. ad 750–1100) boat burials, several containing the remains of domestic dogs. The present study is an osteological examination of the remains of three of these dogs, one each from three boat graves, with a primary goal of morphological reconstruction and a secondary focus on identifying sex, age, and pathology. Two dogs were large, slender sight hounds, while the third was somewhat smaller and of indeterminate type. The preference for sight hounds in high-status graves is consistent with previous results from the contemporaneous nearby boat cemeteries of Vendel and Valsgärde, adding weight to the hypothesis of a shared funerary culture between these sites in the Late Iron Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The functioning of multi-nation monetary unions with several central banks is conditioned by many factors and considerations, such as the capacity to deal with crises, the political will and operational skill to foster financial integration and to develop a mix of rules and discretion in the cooperation between the central banks. The Scandinavian monetary union (SMU) between 1873 and 1931 is a case in point for illustrating the importance of these factors and considerations. We examine the policies implemented in the Scandinavian countries to deal with asymmetries of payments flows and with financial crises at three levels: in an account of major crises that required lending of last resort, in a study of the clearing and settlement mechanism established in the union, and in a survey of contemporary economists’ views on lending of last resort and cooperation in the SMU.

Researchers have long discussed whether Scandinavian rock art reflects narratives. Their interpretations have frequently been based on inspections of rock art panels combined with knowledge from ethnographic and historical sources. Here, the authors adopt a more focused narratological approach that takes the concept of (visual) narrativity into consideration and draws on studies by literary analysts, cognitive psychologists, and semioticians. Images of spear use in the provinces of Bohuslän and Östergötland in Sweden, given their diversity and indexical qualities, are well-suited to such a study. They reveal different kinds of indexical relationships, i.e. how the spears direct attention to possible targets, arguably corresponding to action scripts well-known to Bronze Age communities. Many spear images may be regarded as mini-narratives and mnemonic devices intended to represent schematized action sequences. The authors suggest that concepts such as iconicity, indexical relationships, scripts, and mini-narratives could be fruitfully employed in research on Scandinavian rock art and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The growth in the private security industry alongside a persistent separation of policing from the state is a well-documented Western phenomenon. Yet in Denmark, the police still claim a monopoly over matters of security and the exercise of public authority. This is partly because they operate in a society with a strong cultural aversion to the privatisation of police tasks. Despite this traditional cultural antipathy, privatisation may nevertheless become a future scenario in Denmark due to changes in social attitudes in general and to internal crises within the police. This article presents and analyses these developments and considers the legal implications of privatising certain police tasks in Denmark. Building on this analysis, it draws conclusions about the potential avoidance of state liability through outsourcing. The paper draws comparisons with Sweden, a similar state in political, cultural and legal respects, which began delegating police tasks to private security companies almost fifty years ago, including those that involve the use of physical force.

Gold snake-head rings are a famous and much studied artefact group of the Late Roman Period in Scandinavia. But before and during their heyday, women in the same areas were occasionally buried with shield-head and snake-head rings made of silver or bronze. This paper surveys the material and traces the origin of these designs from the Wielbark Culture in coastal Poland about AD 100. The early shield-head rings probably arrived across the Baltic with the women who wore them. After the AD 210s, non-gold rings are a feature of the gold snake-head rings' core production and distribution area on the Baltic Islands and south-east mainland Sweden. The women who wore them were not tribal royalty, but enjoyed comfortable economic means and had the right to display this top-level symbol in more affordable materials. Goldene Schlangenkopfringe sind eine berühmte und häufig untersuchte Artefaktgruppe der spätrömischen Kaiserzeit in Skandinavien. Vor und während ihrer Blütezeit wurden Frauen in denselben Gebieten gelegentlich mit Schildkopf- und Schlangenkopfringen aus Silber oder Bronze bestattet. Dieser Beitrag untersucht das Fundmaterial und zeichnet den Ursprung dieser Formen aus der Wielbark-Kultur an der Küste Polens um 100 n. Chr. nach. Die frühen Schildkopfringe gelangten wahrscheinlich mit jenen Frauen, die sie trugen, über die Ostsee. Nach 210 n. Chr. sind aus anderen Materialien hergestellte Ringe ein Merkmal des Produktions- und Verbreitungsgebiets der Schlangenkopfringe auf den baltischen Inseln und auf dem südöstlichen schwedischen Festland. Die Frauen, die diese Armringe trugen, waren keine Stammesköniginnen, verfügten jedoch über komfortable wirtschaftliche Mittel und hatten das Recht, dieses Symbol der absolute Oberschicht in verfügbareren Materialien zu verwenden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La culture de la céramique perforée (Pitted Ware culture, PWC) continue d'attirer l'attention des scientifiques. Appartenant à la période néolithique définie par l'avènement de l'agriculture, le phénomène PWC rompt avec notre conception traditionnelle de l'évolution culturelle et sociale, en incarnant le retour ou la continuation du mode de vie des chasseurs-cueilleurs. Pour comprendre cette apparente anomalie, il est essentiel de pouvoir restituer la chronologie de la PWC: Quand et où ce phénomène a-t-il émergé pour la première fois? Comment s'est-il répandu? Quand et pourquoi s'est-il éteint? Afin de clarifier ces questions, le présent article décrit le plus grand échantillonnage jamais assemblé de sites PWC, localisés à travers toute la Scandinavie et bénéficiant de datations radiocarbones recalibrées et corrigées. Sur plus de 900 datations 14C collectées, nous fument en mesure de surmonter les nombreux obstacles engendrés par la limitation de dates individuelles obtenues sur des sites uniques, qui entravent bien trop souvent l'interprétation et empêchent toute vision d'ensemble. En conséquence, nous sommes maintenant en mesure de présenter un modèle montrant la propagation rapide de la PWC, depuis une origine supposée située dans le centre-est de la Suède (env. 3400 av. J.-C.) vers les vastes zones essentiellement côtières de la péninsule scandinave et du nord-est du Danemark. Cette propagation rapide peut être expliquée par l'intégration de la PWC dans les réseaux d'échange de silex à longue distance. La fin du phénomène PWC, datée aux environs de 2200 cal av. J.-C.) peut être considérée comme une conséquence de l'intensification de l'agriculture et de son expansion vers le nord durant le néolithique tardif. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Im ersten Teil des Beitrags wird eine Zusammenführung der Begriffe »Utopie« und »Biopolitik« aus historischer und theoretischer Perspektive versucht. Es werden zudem zwei Begriff eingeführt, die »Heterotopie« und die »Figur des Dritten«, anhand derer im zweiten Teil gezeigt wird, wie es aktuellen Utopien / Dystopien gelingt, die eigene Zeit nicht nur kritisch zu beleuchten, sondern auch positives Zukunftspotenzial freizulegen. Im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Teils steht eine Auswahl von Texten, die als beispielhaft für das in den letzten Jahren im Norden populäre Genre des utopischen / dystopischen Romans verstanden werden kann, und anhand derer deutlich wird, welche Rolle Biopolitik in dieser Gattung spielt. In the first part of this article the concept of utopia and the field of bio-politics are brought together from a historical and a theoretical perspective. In addition to that, two terms are discussed: »heterotopia« and »the figure of the third«. With help of these terms, it is possible to show how recent utopian / dystopian literature succeeds not only to criticise its own time but also to reveal a positive potential for the future. In the second part I focus on a choice of texts which can be seen as good examples for the genre of utopia / dystopia that is popular in recent Nordic literature. Furthermore, these texts are useful in giving an impression of the relevance of bio-politics for this literary genre.

The contribution analyses how the late medieval Harðar saga uses place-names as literary devices. It proposes that toponyms are employed not only to locate plot elements, but also for purposes of subversion, the dropping of keywords then taken up by the narrative in an often grotesque and ironic fashion, the creation of an (again, typically ironic) subtext, and the evocation of physical topographies and their visual appearance in the context of accounts of travels. Thus, the contribution argues that place-names are a central part of the storyteller’s toolkit which can provide important pointers for how to read the saga. Der Beitrag analysiert, wie die spätmittelalterliche Harðar saga Ortsnamen als literarische Ausdrucksmittel verwendet. Dabei wird vorgeschlagen, dass Toponyme nicht nur herangezogen werden, um die Schauplätze von Elementen der Sagahandlung zu lokalisieren, sondern auch zu Zwecken der Subversion, als insbesondere in ironischer und grotesker Weise verwendete Stichwortgeber für die Entwicklung von einzelnen Episoden der Saga, zur Schaffung eines (erneut typischerweise ironischen) Subtexts, und zur Evozierung des visuellen Erscheinungsbilds der physischen Topographie im Rahmen von Reisebeschreibungen. Damit erweisen sich Ortsnamen als ein zentraler Teil des »Werkzeugkastens« des Erzählers, der für eine Interpretation der Saga wichtige Anhaltspunkte geben kann.

The point of departure for this article is the excavation of two burial mounds and a trackway system in Bamble, Telemark, Norway. One of the mounds overlay ard marks, which led to speculation as to whether the site was ritually ploughed or whether it contained the remains of an old field system. Analysis of the archaeometric data indicated that the first mound was related to a field system, while the second was constructed 500–600 years later. The first mound was probably built to demonstrate the presence of a kin and its social norms, while these norms were renegotiated when the second mound was raised in the Viking Age. This article emphasizes that the ritual and profane aspects were closely related: mound building can be a ritualized practice intended to legitimize ownership and status by the reuse of domestic sites in the landscape. Further examples from Scandinavia indicate that this is a common, but somewhat overlooked, practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2017, eight runestones on Bornholm were scanned in 3D and the microtopography of the grooves was analysed by multivariate statistical methods. One of the stones was previously not known to runological research. The aim of this paper is to compare the carving technique of the Bornholm runestones with runestones from Swedish regions to shed light on old issues concerning Bornholm's links with other regions in and around the Baltic Sea. The rune carvers are important agents in this, as the runestones are often related to issues including landholding, Christianization, possible Swedish influences, and the inclusion of Bornholm into the Danish realm. In addition, rune carvers as native writers were intimately connected to the introduction of literacy. The results of this study indicate that the rune carvers did not cooperate much with carvers from the islands of Öland and Gotland, whereas Södermanland, among the Swedish mainland provinces, was their first choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dieser Artikel stellt die erste Studie dar, in der archäozoologische Überreste von Pferden sowie der mit ihnen verbundenen materiellen Kultur einschließlich der Ikonographie der nordischen Bronzezeit des Zeitraums von 1600–500 v. Chr. miteinander kombiniert werden. Aufgrund archäozoologischer Analysen und vergleichender Materialstudien wird angenommen, dass die Mensch-Pferd-Beziehung eine Reihe von entscheidenden Veränderungen durchlebte, dies beginnend mit der wahrscheinlichen Einführung des Hauspferdes zu Beginn der nordischen Bronzezeit bis zum Übergang von der Bronze- zur Eisenzeit um 700–500 v. Chr. Es wird weiterhin argumentiert, dass der zu beobachtende langfristige Wandel der Mensch-Pferd-Beziehungen sich auch in den die großen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen während der nordischen Bronzezeitgesellschaft spiegelt, einschließlich der sich verändernden Rollen und Verwendungsmöglichkeiten des Pferdes, dies sowohl physisch als auch psychisch. This article presents the first combined study of zoological horse remains and horse-related material culture including iconography from the Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1600–500 BC. Through zooarchaeological analyses and comparative material studies it is suggested that the human-horse relationship underwent a series of pivotal changes from the likely introduction of the domestic horse at the beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age to the transition between the Bronze and Iron Age, c. 700–500 BC. It is further argued that the observed long-term changes in human-horse relationships reflect major social changes in the Nordic Bronze Age society including changing roles and uses of the horse, both physically and mentally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The immigration of Bosnians to the Scandinavian countries in connection to the war in the 1990s is largely seen as a success. Aspects such as high employment and education levels has been foregrounded as indicating integration and personal accomplishment, especially among the younger population. However, the literature produced by Bosnian immigrant authors tells a different story, which focuses rather on personal hardships and obstacles in the affective and social “positionality" of the immigrant in the Scandinavian topography. Regarding texts by authors such as Alen Mešković, Bekim Sejranović, and Adnan Mahmutović, the article surveys recurrent themes associated with the immigrant's inability to create belonging in the host country, such as the encounter with immigrant authorities or the continuous non-contact with Scandinavians. While the texts are not typical examples of literary “welfare criticism", the article tries to suggest some ways in which these texts produce critique of mechanisms in the Scandinavian welfare state model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three unusual Viking-age swords of rare shape were found in Scandinavia: In 1968 two swords were recovered in a woman's grave in Finland. One of these weapons is so curious that it cannot be matched with any other sword type known so far and it remains a unique piece to this day. Only after an excavation in Norway in 2011 did a related find of a sword come to light; it too is a rare specimen. Not only do these artefacts raise questions about their former use, the grave goods that accompanied them also give cause to discuss the social status of the deceased and their possible warrior activities. In one case we may even be dealing with a female warrior, respectively a participant in a campaign to England. The swords' rare forms not only make them highly interesting from a typological perspective but they also uniquely illustrate the transition from paganism to Christianity during the eleventh century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Julia Bergmann ist seit 2003 als Trainerin, Vortragende und Beraterin im Bereich Bibliotheken und Bildungseinrichtungen national und international tätig. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des Vereins Zukunftswerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e. V. und Mitglied des EU Think Tanks Library Avengers. 2015 besuchte sie im Rahmen von längeren Fachexkursionen Bibliotheken in den Niederlanden, Dänemark, Schweden und Finnland und im Jahr 2016 war sie auf Bibliotheksreise in Kolumbien. Das vorliegende Interview beschreibt ihre Eindrücke in den verschiedenen Ländern und geht besonders auf Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu Bibliotheken in Deutschland ein. Since 2003, Julia Bergmann works as a trainer, lecturer and consultant in the area of libraries and educational institutions, nationally and internationally. She is a founding member of the society Zukunftswerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e. V. (Future workshop for imparting culture and knowledge) and member of the EU Think Tank Library Avengers. During fairly long study tours in 2015, she visited libraries in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, whereas in 2016 she travelled to Colombia. The following interview describes the impressions she received in the different countries and especially deals with common features and differences in comparison with libraries in Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article examines the wide range of grave disturbance practices seen in Viking-age burials across Scandinavia. It argues that the much-debated reopenings at high-profile sites, notably the Norwegian ‘royal’ mounds, should be seen against a background of widespread and varied evidence for burial reworking in Scandinavia throughout the first-millenniumadand into the Middle Ages. Interventions into Viking-age graves are interpreted as disruptive, intended to derail practices of memory-creation set in motion by funerary displays and monuments. However, the reopening and reworking of burials were also mnemonic citations in their own right, using a recurrent set of practices to make heroic, mythological, and genealogical allusions. The retrieval of portable artefacts was a key element in this repertoire, and in this article I use archaeological and written sources to explore the particular concepts of ownership which enabled certain possessions to work as material citations appropriating attributes of dead persons for living claimants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Introducing theEuropean Journal of Archaeology'sspecial issue ‘Mortuary Citations: Death and Memory in the Viking World’, this article outlines the justification and theoretical framework underpinning a new set of studies on Viking-age mortuary and commemorative practice as strategies of mortuary citation. The contributions to the collection are reviewed in relation to strengths and weaknesses in existing research and broader themes in mortuary archaeological research into memory work in past societies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper focusses on animal remains associated with archaeological contexts dated to the middle and later phases of the Scandinavian Iron Age, which corresponds to the first millennium AD. The main question to be addressed is whether this record can be used for identifying human impact on certain animal populations for modelling faunal exploitation and interregional trade. In the first part of the paper, we undertake a detailed inventory of animal finds recorded in published excavation reports, research catalogues, and in existing databases maintained primarily by the Historical Museum in Stockholm. We compare the chronological pattern identified in the burial assemblages with a chronological sequence retrieved from pitfall hunting systems located in the Scandinavian inland region. The chronologies of the animal finds from burials and the pitfall systems are then compared with dated pollen-analytical sequences retrieved in the inland region and additional archaeological assemblages, such as graves and hoards of Roman coins. In our discussion, we outline an interregional model of faunal exploitation between ad 300 and 1200, including the possible location of hunting grounds and end-distribution areas for animal products. The paper provides deeper insights into the burial record of the middle Iron Age, arguing for the need for broader interregional approaches, and focussed archaeological research in the inland regions of Scandinavia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Häufigkeit von mittleren und starken Sturmhochwassern an der Mecklenburg-Vorpommerschen Ostseeküste hat sich in den letzten 100 Jahren nicht signifikant verändert, während die leichten Sturmhochwasser von 1880 bis 1940 in der Häufigkeit zugenommen haben. Nach einer starken Abnahme in den vierziger Jahren hat die Häufigkeit der leichten Sturmhochwasser bis in die Gegenwart wieder zugenommen. Die Ursachen für ein Sturmhochwasser sind entweder Tiefdruckgebiete, die von Skandinavien über die Ostsee nach Polen ziehen und auf ihrer Rückseite für hohe Windgeschwindigkeiten aus N bis NE mit einer großen Streichlänge über der Nördlichen und Mittleren Ostsee bis hin zur Südlichen Ostsee sorgen. Ein derart verursachtes Sturmhochwasser dauert meistens nur wenige, selten mehr als 24 Stunden. Andererseits können Sturmhochwasser durch Vb-Zyklonen verursacht werden. In diesem Fall ist die Streichlänge des Windes wesentlich kürzer. Da diese Zyklonen nur sehr langsam ziehen, können diese Sturmhochwasser mehrere Tage dauern. Neben dem Staueffekt zum Sturmhochwassertermin ist der Füllungsgrad der Ostsee entscheidend. Denn je größer der Füllungsgrad ausfällt, um so geringer ist der Staueffekt, der zum Termin des Ereignisses selber benötigt wird, um die Sturmhochwasserbedingungen mit einem Pegelstand von mindestens einem Meter über NN zu erreichen bzw. zu überschreiten. Es wird gezeigt, daß Stürme aus nord- bis nordöstlichen Richtungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit über der Ostsee und Starkwindereignisse selber in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sich seit 1880 in der Häufigkeit nicht signifikant verändert haben. Stärkerer und über mehrere Tage persistenter Wind aus westlichen Richtungen über dem Ostseegebiet, der für das Füllen der Ostsee verantwortlich ist, hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit zugenommen. Die gleichbleibende Sturmhäufigkeit aus NE deckt sich mit der gleichbleibenden Häufigkeit von mittleren und starken Sturmhochwassern. Bei den leichten Sturmhochwassern spielt der vorherige Wasserstand der Ostsee, induziert durch Winde aus westlichen Richtungen, eine entscheidende Rolle.

Bisher unveröffentlichte Briefe großer Männer der Wissenschaft aus Skandinavien aus dem Zeitraum 1910-1912 bezeugen Respekt und Anerkennung gegenüber Julius von Hann (1839-1921) als führendem Meteorologen und Klimatologen seiner Zeit. Es handelt sich um Briefe von Sven Hedin, Henrik Mohn und Fridtjof Nansen an Julius von Hann.

Sufismen, som ofta definieras i enkla kategorier som islams mystik, har betydligt mer vardagliga och jordnära dimensioner än vad som vanligen framkommer i religionsvetenskapliga handböcker. Sufiska sammanslutningar finns inte alltid som konkurrenter till muslimska församlingar, utan ofta inom dem och mer familjenära, t ex som kitt mellan släktingar eller kontaktytor för handel i större eller mindre skala. Projektet ”Exil och tradition”, som stöds sedan 2005 av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Stockholm), syftar till att dokumentera och analysera hur sufigrupper i Skandinavien utvecklas och förändras i diaspora samtidigt som de upprätthåller kontakter med formella sufiordnar i muslimska länder. Nedanstående är, på inbjudan av FIFOs redaktion, några korta reflektioner kring projektets förutsättningar.

Abstract: Die Goldgefäße der Nordischen Bronzezeit bilden die bedeutendste Gruppe ihrer Art innerhalb Europas. Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt die technologischen Aspekte der Herstellung der skandinavischen Edelmetallgefäße. Dabei spielt die Analyse der Werkzeugspuren und der Oberflächenstrukturen eine herausragende Rolle. Ziel ist es, die verschiedenen Arbeitsschritte der 'chaîne opératoire' die Werkzeuge und deren Handhabung zu rekonstruieren. Darüber hinaus werden die Ziertechniken und Reparaturen beurteilt. Die Studie belegt aufgrund von Werkzeugfunden, dass eine bislang in Frage gestellte lokale Herstellung von geschmiedeten und ziselierten Blechprodukten sehr wohl in Südskandinavien und Norddeutschland möglich war. Der interdisziplinäre Forschungsansatz basiert auf der Verknüpfung von Methoden der Vor- und Frühgeschichte, der Archäometallurgie, der Ethnoarchäologie und der experimentellen Archäologie mit Informationen aus antiken und mittelalterlichen Schriftquellen sowie bildlichen Darstellungen des Metallhandwerks. Abstract: La vaisselle en or de l'âge du Bronze nordique forme le groupe le plus important de son genre en Europe. Cet article traite des aspects technologiques de la vaisselle scandinave en métaux précieux. L'analyse des traces d'outils et des états de surface joue un rôle important. L'objectif principal est la reconstitution des différentes étapes de la chaîne opératoire de la fabrication. Les techniques de décoration ainsi que les réparations sont également prises en compte. Cette étude démontre la forte probabilité d'une fabrication locale de produits en tôle d'or martelés et ciselés dans le sud de la Scandinavie et au nord de l'Allemagne. L'approche interdisciplinaire est basée sur la combinaison de méthodes archéologique, archéométallurgique et expérimentale, avec des informations de sources écrites antiques et médiévales ainsi que des représentations graphiques du travail du métal. Abstract: The gold vessels of the Nordic Bronze Age constitute the most significant group of its kind in Europe. This paper deals with technological aspects of the production of these Scandinavian precious metal vessels. The analysis of tool marks and surface structures plays an important role. This contribution aims to reconstruct the different steps of the operational chain, the tools and their handling. In addition, decorative techniques and repairs are considered. Using the evidence of tool finds, this study demonstrates that a local production of sheet metal vessels was possible in southern Scandinavia. The interdisciplinary approach adopted here combines archaeological methods with archaeometallurgy, ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology, information from ancient and medieval written sources and depictions of metalworking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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