Why do we need a new book on the Vikings? It is true that syntheses of the period appear
with some regularity, most often written for a popular audience, together with well-illustrated …

The question of cult continuity from pagan 'temples' to Christian churches in Scandinavia is a
classic issue in archaeology and history. In this paper the discussion is surveyed and new …

Scandinavia was Christianised at more or less the same time as other polities on
theEuropean fringe, that is, roughly in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The traditional and …

Hur kommer det sig att man hittar hästhuvuden och keramikgrytor i gamla husgrunder?
Enligt äldre seder skulle dessa föremål ge lycka och välgång åt huset och människorna. I …

For snart tjugo ar sedan anordnades i Sigtuna ett tvarvetenskapligt heldags-seminarium
med titeln A1/stamp en ny Sigrunaforskning.'Ordet" ny" i rubriken stod for att det, trots …

8 med Slesvig–det dåtida Danmarks port mot kontinenten–kan uppvisa ett liknande antal
(Bracker-Wester 1989). Heliga ting av det här slaget bör ha varit alltför värdefulla för att …

The hypothesis about continuity of cult, which focuses on consciously observed continuity
from Paganism to Christianity during the process of the conversion, has been the question …

This article describes the emergence, chronology, development, distribution, iconography
and symbolic meaning of the (proto)-disc-on-bow brooches. Disc-on-bow brooches have …

In all Nordic countries in the early Christian period (c. 950–c. 1150), churches were built by
people who were responsible for giving their family and friends access to the numinous. At …

The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law is dedicated to two closely linked medieval
laws which were intended to cover adjacent legal provinces in eastern Norway, around and …