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The Hoarding Vikings
No full textThis book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking-Age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality.The large number of excavated Bornholm hoards enable the inclusion of the archaeological context on an unpreceded scale. This book explores how hoards fulfilled many different purposes and Bourdieu’s theory on capital and field forms the theoretical frame for a multi-contextual analysis of the hoards’ relation to the economic, social, cultural, and ritual fields. A fundamental principle of the methodical approach is that all parts of the hoards are equally important for interpretation. It is in the interaction between archaeological and numismatic data, between the objects’ production and circulation data, and between the accumulation and deposition data, that the functions of the hoards appear. This holistic analytic model illuminates how and by whom the hoards were accumulated and deposited, theorising that the motivations for purpose of depositing different hoard types vary and that these motivations are reflected in the deposition contexts. Besides describing the acts and actors that influenced the accumulation and deposition of silver, the book also examines how hoards influenced Viking-Age people and society.Demonstrating that the motivation behind the accumulation and deposition of hoards was multifaceted, The Hoarding Vikings is for researchers and students of Viking archaeology
KKNV01634-01 Ting Jellinge, Bakkegård:Beretning for arkæologisk eftergravning af sølvdeponering fra vikingetid
No full textEfter fundet af en sølvdeponering med brudsølv og kufiske mønter fra o. 900 ved detektorafsøgning gravede Museum Sydøstdanmark et præparat op, som senere blev udgravet på museet. Både før og efter fundet af depotet var der fundet adskillige metalgenstande fra yngre jernalder med detektor på samme mark, hvilket tydede på, at der var tale om en bebyggelse.I september 2025 foretog museet en eftergravning af deponeringen. I et mindre felt var yderligere sølv fra depotet i pløjelaget og ved undergrundsniveau fremkom spor af et ca. 38 m langt krumvægshus med velbevaret vægforløb. Deponeringen er sket 2 m fra husets nordøsthjørne, men om de er samtidige, afventer C14-dateringer huset. I søgegrøfter, der omfattede ca. 1,5 ha. fandtes yderligere tegn på tilstedeværelse af 11 treskibede huse, orienteret Ø-V.<br/
Maria fra Paamiut fik tæv af missionærerne, fordi hun kaldte Gud for streng
No full textEn del af serien: Grønlandsk kvindekamp, skrevet af museumsinspektør Ivalo K.B.F. Olsvig fra Nationalmuseet og journalist fra Dagbladet Information Lærke Cramon
Measuring Trust:Identifying attitudes towards money in the Eleventh Centurya
Get PDFA relatively swift transition from a silver bullion economy to a coin-based monetary market- exchange system in Norway in the eleventh century CE coincided with both the new emergence of a sustained state-scale society and a widely accepted conversion to Christianity in the twilight of the Viking Age. However, what is less well-understood are the ideological dynamics of the transition itself. In this paper we propose that there was an empirically visible stage during the eleventh century during which traders slowly came to accept the legitimacy of coinage, and by association many aspects of a larger imagined community, far beyond the close-at-hand authority of local chiefdoms and in support of a wholly new, continental-style monarchy. We present as a case study the clear material evidence for a gradually growing trust and confidence in new coinage issued under the expanding authority of the king by way of an identifiable reduction in the practice of pecking coins, as in testing its precious metal quality, indicating increased trust in the authority of the issuer, Harald Hardrada. We propose that this entailed a process of symbolic entrainment, with the coins being seen ultimately as valuable in their own right, apart from value based solely on their precious metal content alone
En stilkorrektion af et nationalmonument
No full textSorø Klosterkirkes restaurering i sidste halvdel af 1800-tallet set i lyset af datidens bestræbelser på at genskabe det oprindelig
Twenty-six unknown drawings by Jan Luyken
No full textThis paper presents a set of twenty-six previously unknown drawings by Jan Luyken (1649-1712), currently kept in a Danish private collection. The drawings span Luyken’s mature career, from 1698 through 1712, and have until now not been examined or compared to his known œuvre