The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

The investigation results concerning the two areas mentioned indicate the impor- tance of production, probably with textile and ...

A rectangular area without graves in the middle of the churchyard indicates the position of a church. The interpretation of a nu ...

boats. A 3. 8 m long boat contained the burials of three people, including a child of nine to eleven years. The boat burials are ...

Considerable amounts of iron nails were found inside and outside the church. They are not from coffins, but may be from the chur ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 8 ) SIGTUNA Jonas Ros S igtuna was founded c. 980 , by the time when the town of Birka ceased to have urban func ...

Kings are mentioned in the written sources in connection with the town. One inter- pretation is that there was a royal residence ...

were c. 8 m wide and sometimes 30 – 40 m long, with as many as four or five buildings with different functions. At the rear of t ...

also debris from craft production in them. There was also debris from craft production in the smaller buildings. The plots were ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Adam of Bremen = ( 1984 ) Historien om Hamburgstiftet och dess biskopar. Adam av Bremen, trans. E. Svenberg (Skrift ...

CHAPTER EIGHT ( 9 ) VIKING AGE UPPÅKRA AND LUND Birgitta Hårdh T he Iron Age centre Uppåkra is situated on a pronounced height, ...

Especially worth attention are the results from the excavations in 2001 – 4. South of the church an area has been investigated w ...

for these (cf. Arrhenius 1994 : 211 ff.). There are also a couple of close parallels in Tissø. Apparently it is a representation ...

not a parallel to Birka or Hedeby. Tissø on Zealand is characterised as an aristocratic residence, a manorial farm with abundant ...

Helgesson, B. ( 2002 ) Järnålderns Skåne. Samhälle, centra och regioner (Uppåkrastudier 5 ; Acta archaeologica Lundensia. Series ...

Technology and trade CHAPTER NINE LOCAL AND LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE Søren Michael Sindbæk E xchange was a delicate matter in the ...

The character of the sites, as well as the quantity and nature of the commodities, show that long-distance exchange had attained ...

Around ad900 little was left of the network that had existed 100 years earlier, though key sites like Hedeby, Birka, Kaupang and ...

importance changing by conjunctures rather than by revolution (Verhulst 2002 : 135 ). But if an episode of more radical change m ...

local basis by a process of ‘urbanisation’. While this evolutionary perspective adds an important dimension, it tends to disrega ...

sacrosanct protection (Skre 2006 ). This has provoked a long-standing debate on the relationship between economy and politics. T ...