Sailing Rock Art Boats: A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North

Bengtsson, Boel

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“…Ling & Uhnér, 2014;Lykesas & Mouratidisof, 2005). They suggest that rituals such as the weapon dance were imported from this area through connecting trade routes, where elite Scandinavian groups adopted/adapted a ritual with which they identified (Ahlqvist & Vandkilde, 2018;Bengtsson, 2017;J. Ling & Uhnér, 2014;Speidel, 2004;H.…”

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A storm of swords and spears: The weapon dancer as an enduring symbol in prehistoric Scandinavia

Maddox

2020

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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The past fifteen years have witnessed increasing effort to study and understand the belief system of Bronze Age Scandinavia. Different forms of material culture-including rock art and metalwork-and allusions to texts such as the Vedic Rig Veda, have led many to suggest the existence of a shared belief system with an Indo-European solar focus. Yet certain symbols attributed to this Indo-European system seem to have striking parallels in later Norse religious iconography-symbols such as weapon dancer imagery. Several examples of Bronze Age rock art display scenes of weapon-bearing figures, performing ritualistic motions that some have interpreted as dancing. Could this represent a case of prehistoric continuity? By presenting and comparing the Iron and Bronze Age evidence, this paper suggests a possible continuity in representations of warrior rituals on figurative material, underlining the importance of advertising a warrior identity and mentality in Prehistoric Scandinavian communities. In doing so, it also emphasizes the endurance of Prehistoric Scandinavian symbolic structures overall.

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A storm of swords and spears: The weapon dancer as an enduring symbol in prehistoric Scandinavia

Maddox

2020

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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“…Others have seen rock art as offerings in general (Malmer 1981), and votive offerings in particular (Hultcrantz 1989:55). Elgström (1925), and Dahlgren (1932) studied the imagery as depictions of real boats in order to understand how craft were built and used (see also Halldin 1952;Bengtsson 2015). In more recent times, Kaul (1998) has proposed that the boat motif represents a central mythological ve hicle carrying the sun across the sky while Kristiansen (2010:110) associates the motif with the Indo-European twin gods 'in disguise'.…”

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Fantastic Beings and Where to Make Them ‒ Boats as Object-Beings in Bronze Age Rock Art

Fahlander

2019

CSA

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The boat motif in Bronze Age rock art is generally assumed to represent real or symbolic boats in some form. In this paper, however, it is argued that Bronze Age rock art motifs are independent material articulations, made to do something rather than to represent. From such a perspective, the hybrid character of the boat motif as part animal, part object is conceived as a special type of entity, an object-being that has no original elsewhere. The change of perspective, from representation to articulation, and from object to being, allows for a more coherent view of Bronze Age rock art as primarily enacted imagery integrated with rock and metal as vitalist devices, aimed to affect the world.

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Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia

Bengtsson,

Artursson,

Wehlin

2024

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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Sailing Rock Art Boats: A reassessment of seafaring abilities in Bronze Age Scandinavia and the introduction of the sail in the North

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Cited by 3 publications

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A storm of swords and spears: The weapon dancer as an enduring symbol in prehistoric Scandinavia

A storm of swords and spears: The weapon dancer as an enduring symbol in prehistoric Scandinavia

Fantastic Beings and Where to Make Them ‒ Boats as Object-Beings in Bronze Age Rock Art

Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia

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