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Warrior institutions and martial networks in Viking-Age Scandinavia
Get PDFThe figure of the warrior occupies a key position in both scholarly and popular representations of the Viking Age. Despite this, many aspects of martial culture and lifeways during the period remain obscure. In order to address this issue, this article offers an exploration of the identities, roles, and social position of warrior groups in Viking-Age Scandinavia. We adopt a recently developed institutional approach for the study of the archaeological record, which allows us to target and analyse a number of key properties that shed light on the objectives, activities, and ideologies of these groups. In doing so, we mobilise and combine a range of evidence types, deriving from both archaeological and textual sources, which collectively have the potential to provide a more holistic understanding of warrior institutions and their place within the wider social formations that constituted prehistoric society. Our analysis reveals the complex networks of obligation and dependency that not only bound these institutions together, but which also influenced and shaped the ways in which they interacted with their communities.The figure of the warrior occupies a key position in both scholarly and popular representations of the Viking Age. Despite this, many aspects of martial culture and lifeways during the period remain obscure. In order to address this issue, this article offers an exploration of the identities, roles, and social position of warrior groups in Viking-Age Scandinavia. We adopt a recently developed institutional approach for the study of the archaeological record, which allows us to target and analyse a number of key properties that shed light on the objectives, activities, and ideologies of these groups. In doing so, we mobilise and combine a range of evidence types, deriving from both archaeological and textual sources, which collectively have the potential to provide a more holistic understanding of warrior institutions and their place within the wider social formations that constituted prehistoric society. Our analysis reveals the complex networks of obligation and dependency that not only bound these institutions together, but which also influenced and shaped the ways in which they interacted with their communities
Kolonial lejlighedsdigtning mellem Grønland og København 1729-30
No full textThis article examines six hitherto unpublished pieces of occasional poetry written in Danish by Missionary Hans Egede and Secretary Henrik Brunsvig for the royal birthday celebrations in Greenland’s Danish-Norwegian colonial settlements. Penned in 1729 and 1730, the poems (along with two published elsewhere and several others, mentioned in primary sources but now lost) yield insights into two conflicting patron-client networks connecting the Greenland colony to the government in Copenhagen, headed by Governor Claus Enevold Paars and Commandant Jørgen Brodersen Landorph, respectively. The poems’ themes and messages highlight the ideological foundations of Greenland ‘crown colony’ governance (in function between 1728 and 1731), based on historical understandings of Greenland as a dependency of Denmark-Norway. Finally, the transmission of the poems sheds light on the practices, dynamics and interactive strategies of colonial agents and imperial powerholders in the early phase of Denmark’s colonisation of Greenland
Dangerous Youth:Spatial Determinism and the Rejection of Modernist Mass Housing in 1970s Denmark
No full textPhotographic Self-fashioning: The role of photography in community-formation by the Skagen Painters
No full textThis article looks at a selection of photos from the artists’ colony in Skagen Denmark and argues, that the photographic representations from the colony throughout the 20th century have played a minor role in the Danish art historiography on the subject. The article examines how the group identity and the community are depicted in a number of photographs from the 1870s and 1880s, and analyses how these photographs can be viewed as performative acts, which helped bolster the group identity and community-formation. The analysis thus emphasises the importance of the photographic act itself, arguing that the photographs not only function as witnesses to events that have taken place, but that they also convince the viewer of community formation. It is argued that the photographs of communal activities do not only represent a 'pastness', but that they also indicate a present and point to community formation. The empirical material consists of the artists’ accounts of being an artist in an artists’ colony such as anecdotes, letters, eyewitness accounts published in contemporary media and some of the photographs of the artists’ communal activities in the collection of Art Museums of Skagen
