Banks, Borders and Bodies of Water in a Viking Age Mentality

Lund, Julie

doi:10.1179/jwa.2008.8.1.53

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“…A similar long-term use can be identified in south Scandinavian lakes and wetlands such as Råbelöv Sjö in Scandia, Tissø on Zealand and Gudingsåkrarna on Gotland (Müller-Wille 1984;Jørgensen 2008;Lund 2008Lund , 2009Lund , 76-103, 2010. It is not just the typological dating of the objects in the Sámi contexts that indicates that the depositions at these sites represent successive actions; even the distribution of objects at the sites points towards interpreting the finds as the result of actions performed on several occasions.…”

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…These finds are characterized by weapons, tools, coins, jewellery, keys and whetstones that were deposited in lakes, bogs and watercourses at places with standing water (Zachrisson 1998;Hedeager 1999;Andrén 2002;Lund 2004a;Pedersen 2004;Lund 2005;Ryste 2005;Lund 2010). The majority of the south Scandinavian depositions consist of only 1-3 objects, but a few such as Råbelöv Sjö in Scania, Tissø on Zealand and Gudingsåkrarna on Gotland included, respectively, 35, 50 and around 500 objects (Müller-Wille 1984;Jørgensen 2002;Lund 2008Lund , 2009; see Figure 1). …”

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…As with the Sámi sites, many of the south Scandinavian acts of deposition were performed at places with sacral names. For instance, the names Tissø and Gudingsåkrarna mean, respectively, the lake of the god Þýrr and the holy field of the gods (see for instance Müller-Wille 1984;Jørgensen 2002;Lund 2008Lund , 2009Lund , 2010). …”

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In the south, some of the objects were thrown into the water from the edge of the lakes, like at the Sámi site Rautasjaure. Furthermore, the lakes and particularly the shores played a significant role in the Old Norse cosmology (Lund 2008(Lund , 2009(Lund , 70-110, 2010. Some of the same types of objects dominated in the Sámi sacrificial places with metal objects and in the south Scandinavian depositions: weapons, jewellery and coins.…”

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels

Lund

2015

Acta Borealia

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The article takes its point of departure in 12 Sámi sacrificial places from northern Sweden and Norway. It is argued that the sites with metal objects of the ninth to fourteenth centuries in a number of ways are comparable to acts of deposition in south Scandinavia. These Viking Age depositions consisted of partly the same types of artefacts, took place on the shores of wetlands with sacral names and were in use in the same time period as the Sámi sacrificial places. The similarities and differences between the two traditions are discussed, focusing on some possible links between aspects of animistic world views and biographical perspectives on artefacts. This opens up the possibility that not only the Sámi, but even the Old Norse world views contained elements of animistic perspectives. It is claimed that the two traditions reflect partially parallel ways of handling the landscape and dealing with objects among the Sámi of Øvre Norrland and the Norse population of south Scandinavia.

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Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Acts Of Deposition In South Scandinavia and Their Northern Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels

Lund

2015

Acta Borealia

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“…This is even true for portable artefacts like the insular, liturgical bowl. It may have been preserved as an heirloom through the Viking Age, but the original function of the bowl as a religious object used in liturgical actions was not necessarily lost, indicated by the similarities to the bowl of Mammen style, which had mythological references; both may have been used in ritual actions in Lejre prior to deposition (for a discussion of the use of containers in relation to Old Norse rituals and mythology, see Lund, 2008 with references). It may indeed have functioned in ritual contexts, including the act of deposition, as a mnemonic agent.…”

Section: Categorizing the Living And The Dead In Viking-age Lejrementioning

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Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age

Lund

Arwill-Nordbladh

2016

Eur. j. archaeol.

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The flexibility of material culture encourages material phenomena to take a dynamic part in social life. An example of this is material citation, which can provide society with links to both the past and connections to contemporary features. In this article, we look at the diverging ways of relating to and reinventing the past in the Viking Age, exploring citations to ancient monuments in the landscape of Gammel Lejre on Zealand, Denmark. Complementing the placement of landscape monuments, attention is also brought to examples of mortuary citations related to bodily practices in Viking-age mortuary dramas, such as those visible at the mound of Skopintull on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden. Through these case studies, we explore the variability in citational strategies found across tenth-century Scandinavia.

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Phylogeographic history of mitochondrial haplogroup J in Scandinavia

Kristjansson

Schurr

Bohlin

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Background: Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup J is the third most frequent haplogroup in modern-day Scandinavia, although it did not originate there. To infer the genetic history of haplogroup J in Scandinavia, we examined worldwide mitogenome sequences using a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic approach.Methods: Haplogroup J mitogenome sequences were gathered from GenBank (n = 2245) and aligned against the ancestral Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence. We also analyzed haplogroup J Viking Age sequences from the European Nucleotide Archive (n = 54). Genetic distances were estimated from these data and projected onto a maximum likelihood rooted phylogenetic tree to analyze clustering and branching dates.Results: Haplogroup J originated approximately 42.6 kya (95% CI: 30.0-64.7), with several of its earliest branches being found within the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa. J1b was found most frequently in the Near East and Arabian Peninsula, while J1c occurred most frequently in Europe. Based on phylogenetic dating, subhaplogroup J1c has its early roots in the Mediterranean and Western Balkans. Otherwise, the majority of the branches found in Scandinavia are younger than those seen elsewhere, indicating that haplogroup J dispersed relatively recently into Northern Europe, most plausibly with Neolithic farmers.Conclusions: Haplogroup J appeared when Scandinavia was transitioning to agriculture over 6 kya, with J1c being the most common lineage there today. Changes in the distribution of haplogroup J mtDNAs were likely driven by the expansion of farming from West Asia into Southern Europe, followed by a later expansion into Scandinavia, with other J subhaplogroups appearing among Scandinavian groups as early as the Viking Age.

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Banks, Borders and Bodies of Water in a Viking Age Mentality

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels

Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels

Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age

Phylogeographic history of mitochondrial haplogroup J in Scandinavia

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