Dronning Margrete Valdemarsdatter (1353–1412) er Skandinavias middelalderdronning par excellence. 79 Mange tidligere og senere dronninger har hatt stor innfytelse i politikken. Ingen har likevel utøvd samme grad av direkte ...

This chapter provides an outline of the scholarly problems that the Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project was designed to address, the central theme explored being the political institutions and processes in the first millennium ...

This is an accepted version of a chapter published in the book Viking-Age Transformations: Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia. © 2017 Routledge

The precise state of the juridical division and organisation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is still to some extent unresolved and has been the subject of debate. By reconstructing the judicial areas I hope to ...

The Norwegian ‘courtyard sites’ have variously been interpreted as special cultic, juridical, or military assembly sites, which served at more than the purely local level. Previously, on the basis of studies of artefacts ...

In this chapter, Avaldsnes and the land along the Karmsund Strait are considered in a west-Scandinavian context. Was the manor one of a kind? Why did aristocrats reside there, and what may be inferred about their activities? ...

This article discusses the centralisation of religious ritual practices in Scandinavia in the second half of the first millennium. This is explored through detailed investigation of the courtyard sites at Skei and Heggstad, ...

In this chapter, we argue that the strong maritime focus in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art could be seen as the result of a fusion of two diff erent maritime legacies. The fi rst legacy relates to the North ...

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This paper focuses on light as a fundamental key to the visual perception of matter and form in the earthly world, its role in a Christian perspective, and how this is communicated in the physical polychrome object as a ...

Avaldsnes, Kormt, and the Karmsund Strait are frequently mentioned in the Old Norse written sources, often referred to as the residence and burial site of kings. The site has attracted the attention of scholars since the ...

The post-Roman rise in trade, urbanisation, monetisation, and kingship are prominent fields of research in early medieval archaeology and history (e.g. Henning 2007; Hodges 2000; McCormick 2001; Sindbæk 2007; Wickham 2009; ...

Pursuing the ARM research strategy (Ch. 4), this chapter summarises, analyses, and contextualises the evidence on aristocratic presence at Avaldsnes and along the Karmsund Strait presented in previous chapters in this book. ...

During many of the 3,400 years prior to the royal manor’s waning following the fire in AD 1368, aristocratic presence is evident at Avaldsnes and along the Karmsund Strait (Ch. 27). What was the nature and context of that ...

The spectacular raised stone north of the St Óláfr’s Church at Avaldsnes, the so called Jomfru Marias synål (Virgin Mary’s Sewing Needle), is the most prominent preserved prehistoric monument at the site. Before its height ...

The emotion most often expressed in runic inscriptions particularly on sticks and bones from the medieval towns of Norway, which often have graffiti-like texts, is love, at times more specifically erotic interest. The ...

I denne artikkelen undersøkes tingorganisasjonen i Frostatingslag i yngre jernalder og middelalder. Sentralt står ringtunene på Værem, Skei, Heggstad og Hustad (ca. 600–1050), sett i sammenheng med Øyrating (etablert tidlig ...

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There are many ways a deceased person can be brought to rest, and the shape and position of the funerary structures are likewise many. In the North-East Necropolis of Hierapolis can be followed a funerary history spanning ...

When we started planning this session proposal it was our intention to provide a forum in which to discuss new results and perspectives on the very old question of long-distance connections and exchange throughout Europe ...

While in Northwestern Europe the Pre-Roman Iron Age traditionally is considered to represent a continuous and unbroken development from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Roman Iron Age, this is not the case ...

In Scandinavia, large scale abandonment of farms and farmlands is recorded in the 6th century. Most scholars today argue that this was linked to contemporary plague epidemics and climate change. The different social ...

I denne artikkelen skal vi studere Værnes rolle i det tidlige kongedømme i jernalder og middelalder. Hvorfor ble gården så viktig? Hva var den sosiale og økonomiske bakgrunnen for fylkeskirken? Vi skal belyse ved hjelp av ...

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