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- Kystnære bergkunststeder på Nord-Jæren
Authors: Wenche Brun
Abstract: The majority of the open-air rock art sites in the county of Rogaland are located near the shoreline along the fjord systems surrounding the city of Stavanger. In the area the shoreline variation from the Bronze Age and up to modern day is minor, which means that the sites still are situated roughly in their original topographical context. The ocean is a dominating presence, and the distribution of rock carvings as well as the motives indicate the waterways’ significance and also to prehistoric use of the shipping lanes which are still in use today. A discussion concerning the coastline and the seascape combined with a phenomenological approach to the rock art sites and landscape might add another dimension to the traditional and well-established agricultural frameworks of interpretation when it comes to the rock art sites in Rogaland. Through personal experience combined with archaeological knowledge the relations between open air rock art sites, surrounding landscapes and the coastline concerning past social and ritual gatherings, wayfinding and sea voyages is discussed.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9857
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Den mystiske og anvendelige skålgropa – skålgroper i Rogaland knyttet
til ferdsel, knutepunkter og kultsteder i landskapet
Authors: Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen , Mari Høgestøl
Abstract: Approximately 110 rock art sites and more than 100 decorated slabs/stones are known from Rogaland County, southwestern Norway. This article looks at cupmarks and their relationship to travelling routes and nodal points along the coast, waterways, and inland pathways, with a focus on dating, context and placement within the wider landscape. The primary group is located in the maritime zone and along fjord systems. These sites are related to known Bronze Age and Iron Age sailing routes, probably related to interregional exchange networks. The second group, along inland pathways, dates to the Iron Age and comprises two distributions. The northernmost group is related to summer farms and constitutes the southern fringe of a larger body of cupmark sites related to sub-alpine regions in Sogn and Hardanger. The southernmost group is found within the Dalane anorthosite and heathland and is associated with nodal points and along pathways leading to ritual places of worship.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9856
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Træmanden fra Rude Eskilstrup og Søholtstaven - Attributter til den
norrøne gudedyrkelse'
Authors: Nikolaj Wiuff Kristensen
Abstract: The wooden man from Rude Eskilstrup, found in a bog, and the figurines from the wooden Søholt staff, found in a gravemound, have hitherto been dated to the Germanic Iron Age. These datings are crucial to the interpretation and has been a reference in dating of other figurines. The wooden man has parallels in male garments of 10th‒11th Century. It is argued that the wooden man is probably from the 10th century. If the new dating is correct, the find is most likely a statue of a pagan god, removed from a cultic building. The Søholt staff has parallels to staffs found in volva's graves from the 10th century and to face pendants from the Viking Age. Through these parallels, and parallels to the wooden man, the Søholt grave is interpreted as a volva's grave from the 10th Century. By comparison to Odins characteristics, it is suggested that both the wooden man and the figurines from Søholt could be representing Odin.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9858
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Sagn og fremgravd «virkelighet» om Vonde-Sveinung og den
ihjelslagne dvergen Fegge
Authors: Axel Mjærum, Ellen Kathrine Friis, Ragnar Orten Lie
Abstract: A legend tells the dramatic and colourful story of the farmer Sveinung the Cruel and how he killed a dwarf (in Norwegian tusse/dverg) named Fegge in his smithy at the farm Heggtveit in Kviteseid, Norway. In the story the smithy is positioned below the hill Smiuberget (lit. Smithy Hill). During an excavation in 2020, a relatively well-preserved smithy from the 13th century was excavated at the place described in the legend. The discovery offered a unique opportunity to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between the rich record of Norwegian folklore, excavated “reality” and the history of place names. Because of this complexity, the authors argue that to seek the “real” roots of the legend is a difficult and maybe also a meaningless task. Rather, they argue that the history of Fegge`s death and other legends are valuable sources to immaterial aspects of the region’s Medieval and Renaissance metal crafting.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9859
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Billedtepper fra Gudbrandsdalen og sagnet om Heknesøstrene
Authors: Marianne Vedeler
Abstract: An intriguing combination of tapestry weave, legend and myth arose in Gudbrandsdalen in the 17th century. The legend about the conjoined twin master weavers is still living as a local story, and is now being conveyed to an international audience through novels written by Lars Mytting. The legend is tightly connected to a distinct form of tapestry weave, depicting biblical stories and narratives rooted in medieval poetry. The traditional interaction between visual and oral storytelling might be an important key to understanding the textiles. Visual stories told through tapestries have a long tradition in Norway, traceable from the 9th century tapestries from the Oseberg Viking ship grave onto the tapestries from Gudbrandsdalen. The legends about the extraordinary weavers that created tapestries in Gudbrandsdalen provide an extra dimension, linking the idea of conjoined twins as creatures of paradox with the pre-Christian tradition of natural signs that had to be de-coded.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9860
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Stavanger domkirke – en arkeologisk utgravning under koret
Authors: Perry Rolfsen
Abstract: Stavanger Cathedral was built in Romanesque style around 1100. The choir was 11.5 m long, 8 m wide and straight ended. After a fire in 1272, the choir was extended to the east in Gothic style around 1300. Stavanger museum carried out an archaeological excavation in multiple rooms in 1967. In the eastern part of the excavation area more than 30 skeletons were found. The skeletons sent to the Department of Anatomy in Oslo for analysis were mixed at the Institute, and in the boxes returned to Stavanger, there were also bones from other parts of the country. It is discussed whether the main room has been a crypt or a tomb. In the author´s opinion, it has been a tomb. Carbon 14 datings show that there was a cemetery before the church was built. Thus it is likely that there was a wooden church at the location prior to the Romanesque church.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9861
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Augusta Zangenberg (1846−1915): «Det er en kvinne som har
samlet det hele»
Authors: Nina Sofie Hildre
Abstract: Den danske danselæreren Augusta Zangenberg sto for en rekke utgravninger av gravplasser og boplasser i Danmark fra og med 1870-tallet. Hennes samling av oldsaker utgjorde etter hvert rundt tre tusen gjenstander, og samlingen ble en del av det nyåpnede Thisted Museum i 1903. Historien om Zangenberg er en historie om hvordan en kvinne gjorde seg gjeldende på en arena som hun på grunn av sitt kjønn egentlig var utelukket fra. Fascinasjonen for hvordan det var mulig å finne spor etter tidligere tiders mennesker rett under sand og torv, hadde hun med seg fra hun som liten jente fant en stridsøks i en plogfure.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9862
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age . Essays in Honour of Christopher
Prescott
Authors: Hilde Fyllingen
Abstract: Bokanmeldelse av boka Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age . Essays in Honour of Christopher Prescott. Eds : Knut Ivar Austvoll, Marianne Hem Eriksen. Per Ditlef Fredriksen, Lene Melheim, Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen & Lisbeth Skogstrand. 2020 «»
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9873
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Hva er et menneske' Den utrolige historien om hvordan vi ble oss og
hvorfor de ande menneskeartene forsvant.
Authors: Isabella Foldøy
Abstract: Bokanmeldelse av boka Hva er et menneske' Den utrolige historien om hvordan vi ble oss og hvorfor de ande menneskeartene forsvant. Av Vibeke Viestad, illustrert av Helena Lindholm.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9874
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Seaways to Complexity.
Authors: Anne Lene Melheim
Abstract: Bokanmeldelse av boka Seaways to Complexity. A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, Equinox, 2021. Av Knut Ivar Austvoll.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9875
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Norsk Arkeologisk Selskaps høsttur til Østfold, Bohuslän og Halland
23.09. – 27.09.2021
Authors: Norsk arkeologisk selskap
Abstract: Reisebeskrivelse fra Norsk Arkeologisk Selskaps høsttur til Østfold, Bohuslän og Halland i perioden 23.09. – 27.09.2021
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9876
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Årsrapport Norsk arkeologisk selskap
Authors: Norsk arkeologisk selskap
Abstract: Årsrapport og regnskap Norsk arkeologisk selskap.
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9877
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Minneord om professor Frode Iversen (1967–2022)
Authors: Håkon Glørstad, Kjetil Loftsgarden, Anne Lene Melheim, Dagfinn Skre, Ole Rikard Høisæther, Lyder Marstrander
Abstract: Minneord om professor Frode Iversen (1967–2022).
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9947
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
- Minneord om Oddmunn Farbregd (1941–2021)
Authors: Lars F. Stenvik
PubDate: 2022-11-20
DOI: 10.5617/viking.9948
Issue No: Vol. 86, No. 1 (2022)
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