Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7175771
AutoresJulie Lund (0000-0002-5224-0730, University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia), Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh (0000-0002-3297-7591, University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen19
Número3
Páginas415-438
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/14619571.2016.1193979
OpenAlexW2473644960
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas45

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

Archaeology · Citation · Flexibility (engineering · Geography · Political science · Viking Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law