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“A Strange Woman Slumbers”:The Reframing of the Medieval Queen Margrete’s Sarcophagus by the Danish Women’s Movement and the Artist Agnes Slott-Møller
No full textIn 1885 the Danish Women’s Society began publishing the journal Kvinden og Samfundet (Woman and society) and selected the medieval queen Margrete I (1353–1412) as the figure on the cover’s nameplate. The representation of the queen was modeled after the effigy on her sarcophagus. This article explores how this image of the queen was employed to further the agenda of the Danish women’s movement and how the artist Agnes Slott-Møller developed representations of the queen in dialogue with women from key institutions related to the movement. In doing so, it argues that the portrayals of the queen both supported a nationalist agenda and served a progressive cause
Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark
No full textThe discovery of more than 600 whole and fragmentary engraved stone plaques in the early third millennium BC infill from the ditches of a causewayed enclosure at Vasagård, on the Danish island of Bornholm, represents a unique find in Neolithic miniature art. Termed ‘sun stones’ in reference to the rayed images that characterise many of the plaques, the stones were deposited en masse over a short period. This article offers a fundamental classification of the rich imagery captured in the engravings and examines its potential function at a time of possible climatic crisis that impacted not just Bornholm but the wider northern hemisphere
En hovedpude af sten
No full textFortællingen om en lille piges begravelse for rundt regnet 1300 år siden i vikingetidens Vestjylland
”Demokrati under pres – Folketinget fra besættelse til befrielse 1940-1945”:en udstilling i Rigsdagsgården
No full textTekster, billed- og dokumentudvalg til udstillingen ”Demokrati under pres – Folketinget fra besættelse til befrielse 1940-1945” udarbejdet sammen med Steen Anderse
Fold it - recent finds of figural handles from Roman folding knives in Denmark
No full textA few years ago, an article on Roman folding knives in Denmark would have been unfeasible, as this small and distinct group of artifacts had not yet been identified. However, the increasing use of metal detectors in Denmark has led to the discovery of numerous new artifact types, some readily identifable and others less so. The identification process of this new type began with the discovery of a complete folding knife in Gl. Rye cast in copper alloy. While initially proposed to be of Roman origin, this attribution was met with skepticism due to the early dating it implied, resulting in a lack of consensus among both detectorists and archaeologists.Subsequent discoveries of similar folding knife fragments have since emerged, beginning with a find from Oslo, Norway, followed by two fragments from different regions in Jutland, Denmark, as well as a fragment from a distinct handle type uncovered in Zealand, Denmark. To date, these represent the entirety of identified fragments from southern Scandinavia. This article presents and contextualizes this material. Moreover, the article argues for a Roman provincial origin of these artifacts. It examines their iconographic features and archaeological context, complemented by metallurgical analyses.These analyses reveal a metal composition closely resembling that of Roman sestertii minted in the 1st century AD. It also narrows the origin of the copper ore to two different areas within the Roman Empire, supporting the proposed Roman provenance.A few years ago, an article on Roman folding knives in Denmark would have been unfeasible, as this small and distinct group of artifacts had not yet been identifi ed. However, the increas-ing use of metal detectors in Denmark has led to the discovery of numerous new artifact types, some readily identifi able and others less so. The identifi cation process of this new type began with the discovery of a complete folding knife in Gl. Rye cast in copper alloy. While ini-tially proposed to be of Roman origin, this attribution was met with skepticism due to the early dating it implied, resulting in a lack of consensus among both detectorists and archaeologists.Subsequent discoveries of similar folding knife fragments have since emerged, beginning with a fi nd from Oslo, Norway, followed by two fragments from diff erent regions in Jutland, Denmark, as well as a fragment from a distinct handle type uncovered in Zealand, Denmark. To date, these represent the entirety of identifi ed fragments from southern Scandinavia. This article presents and contextualizes this material.Moreover, the article argues for a Roman provincial origin of these artifacts. It examines their iconographic features and archaeological context, complemented by metallurgical analyses. These analyses reveal a metal composition closely resembling that of Roman sestertii minted in the 1st century AD. It also narrows the origin of the copper ore to two diff erent areas within the Roman Empire, supporting the proposed Roman provenanc
Microwear and Reflectance Transformation Imaging Data of Iconic Viking-Age Anthropomorphic Figures: a BODY-POLITICS Dataset
No full textThe dataset consists of microwear analysis and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) datafiles of ten iconic Viking-Age anthropomorphic artefacts (c. 750-1050 CE) from the collections of the Swedish Historical Museum in Stockholm. The objects, anthropomorphic silver and bronze miniatures, were recorded in September 2023 as part of the ERC Starting Grant BODY-POLITICS.The key objective was to empirically interrogate the engagements the objects elicited, i.e. traces of attachment, use, handling, and manipulation [1, 2]. The data consist of data from microwear analysis in a .csv file, 29 micrographs taken with a Dino-Lite, 16 RTI files, and a contextualizing word document, all stored in the EU Open Research Repository on the open-access repository Zenodo. The data are the first of their kind for these types of objects and have value for research targeting microwear and digital imaging analyses on metal, engagement with anthropomorphic imagery, and interpreted religious/ritual objects.The aim of this paper is thus to describe the formation of the datasets and outline possible reuse of the data. The following articles are linked with the dataset:Eriksen, MH, B. Marshall, E. Aslesen and C. Tsoraki 2025 Viking body-making: new evidence for intra-action with iconic Viking anthropomorphic ‘art’. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-19. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10230Eriksen, MH, K.M. Olley, E. Tollefsen and B. Marshall 2025 Womb Politics: The pregnant body and archaeologies of absence. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 35(3), 522–535 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325000125 The dataset consists of microwear analysis and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) datafiles of ten iconic Viking-Age anthropomorphic artefacts (c. 750–1050 CE) from the collections of the Swedish Historical Museum in Stockholm. The objects, anthropomorphic silver and bronze miniatures, were recorded in September 2023 as part of the ERC Starting Grant BODY-POLITICS.The key objective was to empirically interrogate the engagements the objects elicited, i.e. traces of attachment, use, handling, and manipulation [1, 2]. The data consist of data from microwear analysis in a .csv file, 29 micrographs taken with a Dino-Lite, 16 RTI files, and a contextualizing word document, all stored in the EU Open Research Repository on the open-access repository Zenodo. The data are the first of their kind for these types of objects and have value for research targeting microwear and digital imaging analyses on metal, engagement with anthropomorphic imagery, and interpreted religious/ritual objects
