„Der Brakteat des Jahrhunderts“. Über den einzigartigen zehnten Brakteaten aus Söderby in der Gemeinde Danmark, Uppland (Zur Ikonologie der Goldbrakteaten, LVIII)

Lamm, Jan Peder; Hydman, Hubert; Axboe, Morten; Hauck, Karl; Beck, Heinrich; Behr, Charlotte; Pesch, Alexandra

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“…Instead, they stand chin to chin, heads back, facing the sky. This imagery links back to Migration period depictions pre-dating AD 540, as seen, for example, on the Gummersmark relief brooch, the four identical type-B gold bracteates in the Söderby hoard and the Ålleberg gold filigree collar (Lamm et al 1999;Lamm 2004: 48;Kristoffersen 2019: 96).…”

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Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland

Rundkvist,

Löfving,

Gustavsson

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Antiquity

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During the mid-first millennium AD, centres of royal power with large halls emerged across southern Scandinavia. No evidence for such sites, however, was known from Östergötland in south-east Sweden. Here, the authors present results from fieldwork at Aska near Vadstena, identifying the principal manor of a petty royal lineage occupied between c. AD 650 and 1000. Excavations have revealed a 50m-long hall raised on a 3.5m-high platform and the largest known assemblage of small gold-foil figures from the first-millennium kingdom of Östergötland. Aska represents a ‘second-generation ruler’ site, similar in form and date to Old Uppsala, Borre, Old Lejre and Tissø, revealing Östergötland as an integral part of the political geography of early medieval Scandinavia.

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Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland

Rundkvist,

Löfving,

Gustavsson

et al. 2023

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“…Det er derfor muligt at den er nedlagt som offer i et marginalt landskab med orientering mod et graense-eller vådområde (sml. Henriksen 2010), men selvom der er eksempler på at brakteater som IK 583 Söderby-B fra Uppland (Lamm et al 1999(Lamm et al , 2000 og andre ofrede genstande er blevet 'draebt' i forbindelse med ofringen, haelder jeg mest til den praktiske tolkning af Rågelund-brakteatens tilstand: Den var på vej til omsmeltning.…”

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Axboe

2023

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Symbols of Protection: The Significance of Animal-ornamented Shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England

Dickinson¹

2005

Medieval Archaeology

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Anglo-Saxon society is sought in the coincidence of artefactual, stylistic and iconographic symbolism. Twenty shields buried in the 6th to earliest 7th century, together with seventeen further mounts which were probably originally designed for shields, form the basis of a systematic typological review; decoration in Salin's Style I is emphasised. Analysis of dating, distribution and use in burial establishes cultural and social contexts. The meaning of the ornamental repertoire is sought through iconographic analogies, notably with Scandinavian bracteates and their putative association with a cult of Ó ðinn/Woden. It is proposed that the animal ornament invested the shields with a specific apotropaic quality, which emphasised, and amplified, the protective role of select adult males, and hence their authority over kin, community and even kingdom. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic decoration of shields can be evidenced, at least sporadically, from Roman to Viking times. While textual and pictorial information contributes to this knowledge, detailed archaeological analysis depends primarily on the survival of metal fittings. In post-Roman Europe, with its custom of burial with weapons, shields with such fittings are famously known from later 6th-and 7th-century northern Italy, parts of Germany and Vendel-period Sweden, with the most magnificent being the great shield buried in mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1 Standing behind these, qualitatively and partly also chronologically, there is, however, a significant group of Early Anglo-Saxon shields which have their iron bosses and/or wooden boards embellished with zoomorphic metal fittings. They have been the subject of many, albeit brief, discussions, which have dated them to

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„Der Brakteat des Jahrhunderts“. Über den einzigartigen zehnten Brakteaten aus Söderby in der Gemeinde Danmark, Uppland (Zur Ikonologie der Goldbrakteaten, LVIII)

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Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland

Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland

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Symbols of Protection: The Significance of Animal-ornamented Shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England

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