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Kastrering og kongemakt
Full text linkThis article discusses two acts of mutilation and torture during the struggles for royal power in the late 1130s. The first part argues, based on literary and legal sources, that such acts were not a particularly prominent element in the political culture in the Viking Age and early Christian Norway. It is concluded that acts of blinding and castration among the élite and pretenders were more likely to have been inspired from abroad, especially the British Isles, and not the other way around as several scholars of early medieval history tend to assume. A broad overview of the history blinding and castration as well as flaying up to the twelfth century is presented, focusing on its role in punishment, rivalry, and hagiography. It is argued that blinding, castration and flaying did not become a popular political tool during the otherwise turbulent rivalries for power in the twelfth century because of its ambiguity. This was caused partly by changed ideas of royal power, as well as related to the hagiographic discourse of bodily suffering. The aggressive part risked creating a martyr or even a potential royal saint that could increase support to the faction of the opponents
Alle vegar fører til Nidaros
Full text linkThis article discusses a fragment of Stephen of Tournai’s Summa in decretum Gratiani, now in the Norwegian National Archives, but originally part of a manuscript copied in France between around 1175 and 1200. The medieval provenance of the manuscript is uncertain, but the article discusses the possible ways in which it might have ended up in Norway, where it was used as binding material for seventeenth-century accounts from the area around Trondheim: was it brought to Norway as a result of contacts forged in twelfth-century Paris, or did it come to Denmark first? By showing that the manuscript, no matter whether it first came to Norway or Denmark, would have travelled thanks to the same type of contacts, involving the same type of people, the article uses the absence of a known medieval provenance as an opportunity to shed light on Danish-Norwegian connections and parallels in the High Middle Ages
Återbruk av det industriella kulturarvet i kulturarvsindustrin
Full text linkThis paper aims to examine adaptive reuse of the industrial heritage in the Swedish countryside from the point of view of four different values within the heritage process: experiential values, economic values, symbolic values, and values of human dignity. How do they correlate with each other? Adaptive reuse of buildings as a strategy has had a great impact on urban development. What about initiatives on the countryside? Can the urban success criteria be easily transferred to rural areas?The survey shows that initiatives largely derive from local driving forces – not from real estate developers, as in urban areas. Prices of land are cheaper on the countryside. In return, the businesses are often dependent on a certain basis for tenants and visitors who can cover maintenance and operation. The municipality, public funding and EU-funds play an important role as support. Often, the post-industrial building complexes adapted to new functions are often used as a figurehead and a symbol for regional creativity, attractiveness and place making in a similar way to larger cities. However, more than being economically successful as cultural businesses, they may have a greater value for the countryside as «cultural gravity centres» for self-understanding and cultural significance for the local community, not least for those people who previously had their workplace at these sites. The most culturally, aesthetically and economically sustainable examples of rural reuse are those that succeed in balancing these four values while establishing contact with the outside world
Scandinavian Names and Naming in the medieval North-Atlantic Area
Full text linkI april 2014 hölls NORNAs 44:e symposium i Caen i Normandie och temat var skandinaviska namn och namngivning i området kring Nordat-lanten under medeltiden. I den efterföljande rapporten ingår 13 artiklar som berör temat. De allra flesta behandlar vikingarnas spår i ortnamn eller personamn i Normandie eller i Storbritannien, vissa med jämförelse med namnbestånden i Skandinavien. I rapporten kommer artiklarna i ordning efter författarnas efternamn men jag har valt att samla dem efter vilket geografiskt område författarna har undersökt och presenterar först de ar-tiklar som behandlar namn i Normandie, därefter de som behandlar namn i Storbritannien, sedan följer ett par artiklar som jämför Normandie och Storbritannien och slutligen två som har en annan inriktning
Å kunne skilje nynorsk frå bokmål og dialekt – Skriveutvikling hos eit utval elevar frå sjette til tiande trinn
Full text linkArtikkelen følger utviklinga av skriveferdigheiter hos fem elevar, tre med bokmål og to med nynorsk som hovudmål, i perioden informantane var ele-var frå sjette til tiande trinn i grunnskulen. Primærmaterialet er skuletekstar, samla inn i samarbeid med Normprosjektet (2012–2016). Hovudfokuset i artikkelen er rettskrivingsutviklinga i hovudmål. Målet med studien er å kome nærmare eit svar på kvifor elevar med nynorsk som hovudmål ser ut til å ha fleire rettskrivingsavvik enn elevar med bokmål som hovudmål. I analysen blir talemålsnær skriving og bokmål trekte fram som vesentlege for denne tendensen. Mot slutten blir ein ny og utvida analysemodell for normavvik presentert, der ulike former for sidemålssamanfall er skilde ut som eigne kategoriar
To menn og Ave Maria i Hamarkaupangen
Full text linkDer Hamarkaupangen låg i mellomalderen, blir det stadig gjort lausfunn, særleg av små metallgjenstandar. Eitt av desse funna er ein gjenstand av bly med runer på, funnen med metalldetektor på Storhamarstranda i 2012. Dette funnet er ikkje tidlegare publisert. I denne artikkelen blir det gjort greie for lesinga av runene, samt tolkinga av dei. Andre innskrifter samt manuskriptskrift blir tatt med i diskusjonen av tolkinga. Ein interessant detalj ved denne innskrifta er at ein av personane som er nemnt der, kan vere den same som er omtala i eit diplom frå Hamar. I artikkelen blir det òg drøfta kva denne innskrifta fortel om skriftkulturar i Hamar og Noreg i mellomalderen. Til slutt blir dateringa av innskrifta diskutert, samt kva for funksjon denne blyskiva kan ha hatt
Kva for motiv ligg bak namngjeving? Ei gransking med utgangspunkt i namn på klatreruter
Full text linkThis article discusses the fundamental onomastic question of how names originate, based on the theory of cognitive grammar. To ex-plore this question, the author examines names of climbing routes. This type of names is spontaneously given and characterized by the fact that it is possible to gain direct access to the namer’s rea-sons for choosing the name. Thus, they are favourable for investi-gating the range of motives behind acts of naming. The article ar-gues that the theory of cognitive grammar is a suitable framework for explaining how names originate since most of the names seem to have been created through analogy to units in lexicon as well as in onomasticon in the brain of the name giver
Optegnelser. Isak Sabas folkeminnesamling / Čállosat. Isak Saba álbmotmuitocoakkáldat. Ed. Line Esborg 2019.
Full text linkRed.anm: Bokmelderen ble forespurt av 2019-redaksjonen. The anthology contains multiple photographs taken by Saba during his fieldwork and includes both an introduction by Line Esborg of NSF (Sámi text 9–37; Norwegian text 39–72) and an afterword jointly written by Marko Jouste, Markus Juutinen, and Miika Lehtinen of the University of Oulu (283-291; 293–301). For the student of Nordic cultural history, the scholar of Sámi culture, or the folklorist/ ethnomusicologist, Optegnelser/ Čállosat is a treasure-trove. It should be acquired by every research library with an interest in Nordic ethnography. It would also prove enlightening and entertaining to a generalist reader and could be profitably used in Norwegian- or Sámi-language courses focusing on folk narrative and belief
Omvärdering av kulturarv - Gruvstaden Kiruna i förändring
Full text linkKiruna, a mining town in northernmost Sweden, is being relocated so the mining company LKAB can continue mining the iron ore deposits that extends underneath the settlement. Kiruna is also a designated heritage site since the 1980s, with a large number of protected buildings. This article investigates how political decisions and negotiations between LKAB and the authorities affects heritagisation processes during the urban transformation. The analysis is based on planning documents, media reporting, and observations. Results show there is a strong authorised heritage discourse in Kiruna, which is reaffirmed through the urban transformation, in which some historic buildings – mainly representing the mining company’s history – are highlighted as significant and will be moved. Simultaneously, other parts of the built heritage are being dismissed and eventually demolished
Forord
Full text linkPå tampen av årsskiftet fra 2019 til 2020 har redaksjonen gleden av å presentere et nummer med to artikler skrevet av tre veletablerte forskere innenfor andrespråksforskning, nemlig Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad, Anne Golden og Lars Anders Kulbrandstad. Begge artiklene knytter seg til tema innenfor den didaktiske linja av norsk som andrespråksforskning, om vi følger Golden, Kulbrandstad og Tenfjords kategorisering av norsk andrespråksforskning (2007). Artiklene presenterer altså studier som er knyttet til andrespråksundervisning på ulike måter. Den første artikkelen omhandler lærebøker, mens den andre artikkelen tar for seg læreroppfatninger