2) Local signifiers and the Early Middle Ages in global communities: the case of Wardruna

This paper argues that, although questions of historicity and ahistoricity are central to medievalism, some medieval living history cultures and scene-adjacent media are better understood as primarily spatial practices. I draw on Bernd Mahr’s model theory and spatial hermeneutics to reimagine medievalism as a set of modelling processes. In this case, field research in the German medieval re-enactment and living history scene is combined with a case study of the Norwegian metal band Wardruna a...