Medievalists.net » Scandinavia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Wolf-Warrior: Animal Symbolism on Weaponry of the 6th and 7th centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/the-wolf-warrior-animal-symbolism-on-weaponry-of-the-6th-and-7th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/the-wolf-warrior-animal-symbolism-on-weaponry-of-the-6th-and-7th-centuries/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63075 Decorative art in Scandinavia during the late Iron Age and Viking Period was largely dominated by animals in stylized forms.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/the-wolf-warrior-animal-symbolism-on-weaponry-of-the-6th-and-7th-centuries/feed/ 0 Doors to the dead: The power of doorways and thresholds in Viking Age Scandinavia http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/05/doors-to-the-dead-the-power-of-doorways-and-thresholds-in-viking-age-scandinavia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/05/doors-to-the-dead-the-power-of-doorways-and-thresholds-in-viking-age-scandinavia/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:24:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61564 It is argued that Viking Age people built ‘doors to the dead’ of various types, such as freestanding portals, causewayed ring-ditches or thresholds to grave mounds; or on occasion even buried their dead in the doorway.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/05/doors-to-the-dead-the-power-of-doorways-and-thresholds-in-viking-age-scandinavia/feed/ 0 What’s New in Scandinavian Rune Stones http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/23/whats-new-in-scandinavian-rune-stones/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/23/whats-new-in-scandinavian-rune-stones/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2015 01:42:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61280 Danielle Turner reports on the papers from the session The World of Images of the Scandinavian Rune Stones

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/23/whats-new-in-scandinavian-rune-stones/feed/ 0 Rich and Powerful: The Image of the Female Deity in Migration Age Scandinavia http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/25/rich-and-powerful-the-image-of-the-female-deity-in-migration-age-scandinavia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/25/rich-and-powerful-the-image-of-the-female-deity-in-migration-age-scandinavia/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2015 01:41:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59982 I believe serious blunders have been made concerning the identification of males and females. It
is simply inadmissable to interpret any figure with open, shoulder-length hair as female when all the evidence for the centuries in question shows females have only been depicted with long hair tied in the Irish ribbon knot.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/25/rich-and-powerful-the-image-of-the-female-deity-in-migration-age-scandinavia/feed/ 0 Scandinavian trade ‘triggered’ the Viking Age, researchers find http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/scandinavian-trade-triggered-the-viking-age/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/scandinavian-trade-triggered-the-viking-age/#comments Fri, 08 May 2015 03:37:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58128 Archaeologists from the University of York have played a key role in Anglo-Danish research which has suggested the dawn of the Viking Age may have been much earlier – and less violent – than previously believed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/15/choosing-heaven-religion-vikings/feed/ 0 Ceremonial Drinking in the Viking Age http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/31/ceremonial-drinking-viking-age/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/31/ceremonial-drinking-viking-age/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2015 05:00:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55796 Drinking ceremonies played a very important social role in Viking Age Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/31/ceremonial-drinking-viking-age/feed/ 0 Trolls in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/06/trolls-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/06/trolls-middle-ages/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:03:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55266 Where did trolls come from? What did medieval and early modern people think of trolls? How did the concept of the modern day troll evolve?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/06/trolls-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Nourishment for the Soul – Nourishment for the Body: Animal Remains in Early Medieval Pomeranian Cemeteries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:39:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54393 Late medieval sources clearly refer to souls, which in traditional folk beliefs were periodically returning to feed and warm themselves by the fires made by the living. This kind of conception can be merged with Slavic eschatology. There is multiple evidence to confirm that belief some form of spirit or soul was spreading amongst the people, who in the early medieval period, bordered directly with Pomerania.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/feed/ 0 Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/corbie-carolingian-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/corbie-carolingian-renaissance/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 01:56:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54356 This study opens with a historical account of Corbie from its foundation until the reign of Charles the Simple, which clarifies the political importance of the abbey and its relations with rulers and bishops.

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