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Frode Iversen
I have diverse interests within the broad fields of Viking- and medieval archaeology and legal history, ranging from kingdom formation in North Europe to thing-sites and medieval legal systems. I love old maps, GIS and settlement archaeology.
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Universitetet i Bergen (2015). Det ble undersøkt 30 kokegroper og to dyrkingslag. Metodisk ble det observert flere strukturer enn det LBI-prosjektet hadde tolket som strukturer i sin undersøkelse. Det
var bra sammenfall mellom innmålte strukturer og strukturene vi avdekket under utgravningen.
Datering av feltet var 380 f. Kr. til 630 e. Kr, med hovedbruksfase mellom 0-300 AD. Det dreier seg altså om et felt med 1000 års brukstid. Flere kokegroper hadde flere bruksfaser, med flere hundre års mellomrom. Kokegropfeltet gikk ut av bruk rundt 600 e. Kr. men det antatte senere
tingstedet på Tjølling kirke vitner om fortsatt bruk av området som samlingsted.
Lunde tolkes som et aktivitetsområde for tingstedet på Tjølling. Ses Lunde i sammenheng med kokegropfeltet på Bommestad 4 km nord, er det visse fellestrekk som gjelder lokalisering og funksjoner der begge kan tolkes som steder der folk oppholdt seg under tingsamlinger i eldre
jernalder. Stedene rommet trolig mange funksjoner, selv om det bare er matlagingsfunksjonen som kan påvises direkte. Indirekte viser omfang, gjenbruk, og strukturene til en rituell praksis av stort
omfang og av lang varighet, som kan ha sammenheng med viktige fellesanliggende for mennesker fra større områder, der det er nærliggende å tenke på sosiale, rettslige, militære og politiske
funksjoner.
In a series of richly illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe.
In a series of richly illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe.
The Vikings fought for power, wealth, and land in many areas of the Northern hemisphere, and left traces of their activities from Canada in the West to the Caucasus in the East. In many parts of Europe visual, literary, and material culture contain influences of past Viking activities.
This volume offers new insights on Viking female warriors; local defense systems; a Danish-Obodrite attack on a Frankish fortress; deeply rooted traditions relating to weapon production; viking encampments in Atlantic Europe; rune carvers in campaign; textiles essential for sea journeys, and related warfare; the symbolic power of weapons; the roles of Rus’ captives and slave soldiers; as well as the relationship between Viking and Norse settlers, and the local Picts of the Western Isles.
Viking Special Volume 1 is co-funded by the Centre for Viking-Age Studies (ViS) and the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
The publication is part of the Joint Research Program (Forskning i fellesskap) conducted by the University Museums of Norway and co-funded by The Research Council of Norway.
og matematiker Klaudios Ptolemaios omtalte dem som Chaideinoi, omkring år 150 e. Kr. Fire hundre år senere, i 542, skrev den lærde grekeren Prokopius at det var 13 kongedømmer i Scandza, ett av dem var
trolig Hedmark. I løpet av de neste 500 årene ble disse småkongedømmene samlet til to større kongedømmer: Norge og Sverige. Med kristningen tidlig på 1000-tallet forsvant vikingtidens småkongedømme Hedmark. I Heimskringla fremstiller Snorre Sturlason
(1179–1241) Ringsaker som sentrum for motstanden mot Olav Haraldssons politiske prosjekt og kristning av Upplǫnd (fig. 1.). Fra mer pålitelige skaldekvad fra 1000-tallet forstår vi at Hedmark var et eget småkongedømme før Olavs erobring. Dette kongedømmet var nært alliert med andre kongedømmer i Upplǫnd – det siste norrøne området som ble kristnet i Norge. Er det spor etter disse alliansene i det arkeologiske materialet? Kan bygdeborger og senere ryttergraver belyse
ulike former for militært samarbeid mellom de fire-fem kongedømmene som kjempet mot Olav og kristningsprosjektet? I dette kapitlet skal vi undersøke bakgrunnen for at Ringsaker kirke fikk den betydningen
den fikk: nemlig som fylkeskirke, eller såkalt tredingskirke, for Hedmark og Østerdalen. Hovedfokus er prosessene som ledet fram til kristningen av Upplǫnd, der Ringsaker sammen med 11 andre kirker kom til å
danne hovedstrukturen i en ny kirkeorganisasjon fra 1020-årene. Men først: Hva betyr egentlig Ringsaker og hva slags sted var dette?
This book discusses the 1st-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the fi nal section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries.
The book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia’s polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th–10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it’s eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book’s discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.
FREE DOWNLOAD HERE:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421101
Universitetet i Bergen (2015). Det ble undersøkt 30 kokegroper og to dyrkingslag. Metodisk ble det observert flere strukturer enn det LBI-prosjektet hadde tolket som strukturer i sin undersøkelse. Det
var bra sammenfall mellom innmålte strukturer og strukturene vi avdekket under utgravningen.
Datering av feltet var 380 f. Kr. til 630 e. Kr, med hovedbruksfase mellom 0-300 AD. Det dreier seg altså om et felt med 1000 års brukstid. Flere kokegroper hadde flere bruksfaser, med flere hundre års mellomrom. Kokegropfeltet gikk ut av bruk rundt 600 e. Kr. men det antatte senere
tingstedet på Tjølling kirke vitner om fortsatt bruk av området som samlingsted.
Lunde tolkes som et aktivitetsområde for tingstedet på Tjølling. Ses Lunde i sammenheng med kokegropfeltet på Bommestad 4 km nord, er det visse fellestrekk som gjelder lokalisering og funksjoner der begge kan tolkes som steder der folk oppholdt seg under tingsamlinger i eldre
jernalder. Stedene rommet trolig mange funksjoner, selv om det bare er matlagingsfunksjonen som kan påvises direkte. Indirekte viser omfang, gjenbruk, og strukturene til en rituell praksis av stort
omfang og av lang varighet, som kan ha sammenheng med viktige fellesanliggende for mennesker fra større områder, der det er nærliggende å tenke på sosiale, rettslige, militære og politiske
funksjoner.
In a series of richly illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe.
In a series of richly illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval kingdoms of northern Europe.
The Vikings fought for power, wealth, and land in many areas of the Northern hemisphere, and left traces of their activities from Canada in the West to the Caucasus in the East. In many parts of Europe visual, literary, and material culture contain influences of past Viking activities.
This volume offers new insights on Viking female warriors; local defense systems; a Danish-Obodrite attack on a Frankish fortress; deeply rooted traditions relating to weapon production; viking encampments in Atlantic Europe; rune carvers in campaign; textiles essential for sea journeys, and related warfare; the symbolic power of weapons; the roles of Rus’ captives and slave soldiers; as well as the relationship between Viking and Norse settlers, and the local Picts of the Western Isles.
Viking Special Volume 1 is co-funded by the Centre for Viking-Age Studies (ViS) and the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
The publication is part of the Joint Research Program (Forskning i fellesskap) conducted by the University Museums of Norway and co-funded by The Research Council of Norway.
og matematiker Klaudios Ptolemaios omtalte dem som Chaideinoi, omkring år 150 e. Kr. Fire hundre år senere, i 542, skrev den lærde grekeren Prokopius at det var 13 kongedømmer i Scandza, ett av dem var
trolig Hedmark. I løpet av de neste 500 årene ble disse småkongedømmene samlet til to større kongedømmer: Norge og Sverige. Med kristningen tidlig på 1000-tallet forsvant vikingtidens småkongedømme Hedmark. I Heimskringla fremstiller Snorre Sturlason
(1179–1241) Ringsaker som sentrum for motstanden mot Olav Haraldssons politiske prosjekt og kristning av Upplǫnd (fig. 1.). Fra mer pålitelige skaldekvad fra 1000-tallet forstår vi at Hedmark var et eget småkongedømme før Olavs erobring. Dette kongedømmet var nært alliert med andre kongedømmer i Upplǫnd – det siste norrøne området som ble kristnet i Norge. Er det spor etter disse alliansene i det arkeologiske materialet? Kan bygdeborger og senere ryttergraver belyse
ulike former for militært samarbeid mellom de fire-fem kongedømmene som kjempet mot Olav og kristningsprosjektet? I dette kapitlet skal vi undersøke bakgrunnen for at Ringsaker kirke fikk den betydningen
den fikk: nemlig som fylkeskirke, eller såkalt tredingskirke, for Hedmark og Østerdalen. Hovedfokus er prosessene som ledet fram til kristningen av Upplǫnd, der Ringsaker sammen med 11 andre kirker kom til å
danne hovedstrukturen i en ny kirkeorganisasjon fra 1020-årene. Men først: Hva betyr egentlig Ringsaker og hva slags sted var dette?
This book discusses the 1st-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the fi nal section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries.
The book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia’s polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th–10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it’s eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book’s discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.
FREE DOWNLOAD HERE:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421101
determinations from Vestfold, Norway. The modelled radiocarbon data show a decrease in activity concurrent with the climatic events and plague epidemics that took place in the mid-6th century, and provide another proxy for the significant changes that occurred during this time. The results may support the idea that fimbulvetr was the start of a long-lasting cooling period combined with severe population declines and a dramatic decrease in cultural activity. In the past and present, the investigated area represents a heartland of rural production and settlements in Scandinavia. The time span of the crises is fundamental to our academic understanding of the character and societal impacts of
the crises, and this study examines it more precisely than previous work.
landscape during the Iron Age and medieval period. I would like to explore these issues, drawing upon an archaeological source unique
to Norway, the so-called courtyard sites. A courtyard site is essentially ‘a collection of houseplots set in a semi-circular formation facing a central open space (tún)’. Thirty such sites are known from the west coast of Norway from Agder in the south to Hålogaland in the north.
Seminar “Rechtsräume”, Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt, organised by Professor Caspar Ehlers
The workshop was arranged by Thorsten Lemm (Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf), Lisbeth Eilersgaard Christensen (Odense bys museer), and Anne Pedersen (Nationalmuseet København / Jelling project)
This session explores the potentials of an archaeology of military communications. From antiquity to the present day, armed forces required systems of military communication: to coordinate troops in the field, warn of imminent threats, and signal between naval and terrestrial forces. A range of written, archaeological and toponymical evidence confirms the importance of beacons and lookouts to the networks of local and regional communications; systems with fire on mountain peaks are attested by Homer and similar systems were used all over Europe until the Napoleonic Wars. Recognising how and where such communications worked is fundamental to understanding systems of military organisation, defensive capabilities, and the nature of hostilities in the past – yet they have so far featured little in archaeological debates. This session will examine the problems and potentials of this topic. What is the archaeological signature of beacons, look-outs, and signalling systems? How can systems of visual and audible signals be reconstructed? What are the relationships between communications, landscape, and better-attested military installations, such as strongholds, linear defences, routes and landing places? How does an archaeology of military communications give insights into the social worlds of past people; how does the routinization of war and the threat of attack affect people and their institutions?
Call for papers: EAA 2020,
Contributions are sought from scholars working in archaeology, history, toponomy, landscape studies. We particularly welcome papers that discuss the physical evidence for military communications; the geographic extents of beacon and other signalling sites; papers that explore their links to mobilisation, movement, strategy, and other military sites and defense networks (e.g. hillforts, castles, place names indicating military personnel/places, earthworks, and power centres, etc); and the social dimensions of civil defence and its impacts on people.
Deadline for submission of abstracts for papers and Pecha-Kucha presentations is 15 July 2018.
Deadline for registration to the conference is 15 November 2018.
http://www.khm.uio.no/forskning/forskergrupper/vis/arrangementer/vis-conference-2018.html