Martin Rundkvist
Biographic Data
| ID | 1041929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Rundkvist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Rundkvist |
| SIGNATURE | RUNDKVIST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lodz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2503-2394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spheres of power and local dialects of Style II animal art in Vendel Period Zealand and Scania. Tissø, Lejre, Uppåkra, AD 570–770
This study aims to study the shifting relationships between elite manor sites on Zealand and in West Scania by means of regional differences in the Vendel Period animal art of c. AD 570–770. The study area includes the manors at Tissø, Lejre and Uppåkra. The material base consists of 77 largely recently found pieces of metalwork. First a four-phase seriation chronology for beast heads with explicit verbal definitions is established and juxtaposed…
Human skull manipulation in Vendel-Viking Period Sweden and Denmark
This study reviews a sample of at least 34 manipulated skulls from 18 sites in Sweden and Denmark, all dating from the period AD 750–1050. For reasons of soil chemistry, Norway has not produced any unambiguous finds. Many extra skulls are found in or near graves and seem linked to a custom of slave decapitation at the grave side. Several are from proto-urban environments, some apparently once having been displayed on the surrounding palisades. Se…
Granhammar Man
In 1953 a human skeleton and a set of tools made from antler, bone, bronze, stone and wood was found embedded in marine clay under a former inlet of Lake Mälaren at Granhammar in Västra Ryd parish, Uppland province, Sweden. Andreas Oldeberg and Nils-Gustaf Gejvall published the find in 1959, and for half a century it did not see continued study. This paper reports on a comprehensive series of re-studies and laboratory analyses of the skeleton and…
Olof Svart's Two Manors
Early Modern Deviant Burial in Prehistoric Monuments in Sweden
This study deals with Early Modern burials in ancient monuments located nowhere near churches or execution sites. Examples are given from four prehistoric sites in different Swedish provinces, dating from the Early Neolithic through the Roman Period, with a total of 15 buried Early Modern individuals. Written sources along with details of the burial rite suggest that they are plague burials. Such were not welcome in churchyards because of concern…
Power in Närke. Elite settlement and animal art AD 150–1125 in a Swedish province
This survey of archaeological and onomastic evidence, prominently including Style I–III animal art, aims at identifying the most promising locations where elite manorial settlements of the period AD 375–1125 can be expected in the Medieval Swedish province of Närke. One such site of c. AD 600–800 has been partly excavated at Husby in Glanshammar. This parish is one of six that stand out by their unusually rich, numerous and sustained elite indica…
Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland
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 lar…
Five hoards in eighty years. Landscape perspectives on new Bronze Age hoard finds around Lake Mälaren in Sweden
Since 1941, only five Bronze Age hoards have been found in the four provinces around Sweden’s Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren: three in Uppland, two in Södermanland, none in Västmanland or Närke. The most recent one appeared in 2016. Here each hoard is discussed in terms of its date, the regional affiliation of its contents, and its landscape situation. They all date from Per. V–VI, c. 950–520 cal BC, and are entirely dominated by locally made object…
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Husby in Glanshammar
This paper returns to Husby in Glanshammar, Sweden, where an important manorial settlement of the mid-to-late 1 st millennium AD was excavated in the 1990s for a highway project. A recent intensive and comprehensive metal detector survey of the site’s surviving parts has secured additional finds that cast a new light on the manor and its afterlife. Fine copper alloy casting was amply demonstrated by the 1990s excavations. Now a die for the making…
Cecilia Ljung. Under runristad häll – Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
The second volume of Cecilia Ljung's massive doctoral thesis is a lavishly illustrated catalogue. There is no theory chapter and hardly any fad jargon. Ljung argues clearly and economically throughout. On p. 28 she dismisses a convoluted previous interpretation with reference to Ockham's razor. I approve on all counts
Noble shape, humble metals. Bronze and silver shield-head and snake-head rings of Roman era Scandinavia
Gold snake-head rings are a famous and much studied artefact group of the Late Roman Period in Scandinavia. But before and during their heyday, women in the same areas were occasionally buried with shield-head and snake-head rings made of silver or bronze. This paper surveys the material and traces the origin of these designs from the Wielbark Culture in coastal Poland about AD 100. The early shield-head rings probably arrived across the Baltic w…
Chivalrous knights in the age of steam
Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craft guilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focused attention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues
Geophysical Investigations on the Viking Period Platform Mound at Aska in Hagebyhöga Parish, Sweden
Aska hamlet in Hagebyhöga parish, Östergötland (Sweden), is famous among Viking scholars for a rich female burial under a low cairn that was excavated in 1920. The main visible archaeological feature of the site is an enormous barrow, but its contents have not been excavated. As the barrow is oval and has an extensive flat top, it has been hypothesized previously that rather than a grave superstructure, this might be an uncommonly large raised fo…
Prospects for Sweden
Swedish archaeology enters the new decade reeling, not so much from seasonal feasting as from lay-offs and excavation unit close-downs caused by the 2008-09 recession. Where to now? Where should we go? And, wishful thinking aside, where are we likely to end up
A Viking Boat Grave with Amber Gaming Pieces Excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden
In the Summer of 2005 the authors directed the excavation of a flat stone setting with a boat-shaped central depression at Skamby, Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The stone setting covered a small and poorly preserved boat inhumation, dated by the artefacts recovered to the early Viking period (9th century AD). This is the first excavation of a boat inhumation in the province of Östergötland. The paper reports on the excavations including th…
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Anne Nørgård Jørgensen. Waffen und Gräber
Anne Nørgård Jørgensen. Waffen und Gräber: typologische und chronologische Studien zu skandinavischen Waffen gräbern 520/30 bis 900 n. Chr. (Nordiske Fortidsminder ser. B Vol. 17). 417 pages, 279 b&w and colour figures, 4 tables. 1999. Copenhagen: Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab; 87-87483-43-2 ISSN 0105-578X hardback DKK500+VAT, p&p. - Volume 74 Issue 285
Geophysical Investigations on the Viking Period Platform Mound at Aska in Hagebyhöga Parish, Sweden
Aska hamlet in Hagebyhöga parish, Östergötland (Sweden), is famous among Viking scholars for a rich female burial under a low cairn that was excavated in 1920. The main visible archaeological feature of the site is an enormous barrow, but its contents have not been excavated. As the barrow is oval and has an extensive flat top, it has been hypothesized previously that rather than a grave superstructure, this might be an uncommonly large raised fo…
A Viking Boat Grave with Amber Gaming Pieces Excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden
In the Summer of 2005 the authors directed the excavation of a flat stone setting with a boat-shaped central depression at Skamby, Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The stone setting covered a small and poorly preserved boat inhumation, dated by the artefacts recovered to the early Viking period (9th century AD). This is the first excavation of a boat inhumation in the province of Östergötland. The paper reports on the excavations including th…
Prospects for Sweden
Swedish archaeology enters the new decade reeling, not so much from seasonal feasting as from lay-offs and excavation unit close-downs caused by the 2008-09 recession. Where to now? Where should we go? And, wishful thinking aside, where are we likely to end up
Anne Nørgård Jørgensen. Waffen und Gräber
Anne Nørgård Jørgensen. Waffen und Gräber: typologische und chronologische Studien zu skandinavischen Waffen gräbern 520/30 bis 900 n. Chr. (Nordiske Fortidsminder ser. B Vol. 17). 417 pages, 279 b&w and colour figures, 4 tables. 1999. Copenhagen: Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab; 87-87483-43-2 ISSN 0105-578X hardback DKK500+VAT, p&p. - Volume 74 Issue 285
Site Presentation Review
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Viking Boat Grave with Amber Gaming Pieces Excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden
In the Summer of 2005 the authors directed the excavation of a flat stone setting with a boat-shaped central depression at Skamby, Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The stone setting covered a small and poorly preserved boat inhumation, dated by the artefacts recovered to the early Viking period (9th century AD). This is the first excavation of a boat inhumation in the province of Östergötland. The paper reports on the excavations including th…
Prospects for Sweden
Swedish archaeology enters the new decade reeling, not so much from seasonal feasting as from lay-offs and excavation unit close-downs caused by the 2008-09 recession. Where to now? Where should we go? And, wishful thinking aside, where are we likely to end up
Geophysical Investigations on the Viking Period Platform Mound at Aska in Hagebyhöga Parish, Sweden
Aska hamlet in Hagebyhöga parish, Östergötland (Sweden), is famous among Viking scholars for a rich female burial under a low cairn that was excavated in 1920. The main visible archaeological feature of the site is an enormous barrow, but its contents have not been excavated. As the barrow is oval and has an extensive flat top, it has been hypothesized previously that rather than a grave superstructure, this might be an uncommonly large raised fo…
Cecilia Ljung. Under runristad häll – Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
The second volume of Cecilia Ljung's massive doctoral thesis is a lavishly illustrated catalogue. There is no theory chapter and hardly any fad jargon. Ljung argues clearly and economically throughout. On p. 28 she dismisses a convoluted previous interpretation with reference to Ockham's razor. I approve on all counts
Noble shape, humble metals. Bronze and silver shield-head and snake-head rings of Roman era Scandinavia
Gold snake-head rings are a famous and much studied artefact group of the Late Roman Period in Scandinavia. But before and during their heyday, women in the same areas were occasionally buried with shield-head and snake-head rings made of silver or bronze. This paper surveys the material and traces the origin of these designs from the Wielbark Culture in coastal Poland about AD 100. The early shield-head rings probably arrived across the Baltic w…
Chivalrous knights in the age of steam
Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craft guilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focused attention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues
Titelseiten
Husby in Glanshammar
This paper returns to Husby in Glanshammar, Sweden, where an important manorial settlement of the mid-to-late 1 st millennium AD was excavated in the 1990s for a highway project. A recent intensive and comprehensive metal detector survey of the site’s surviving parts has secured additional finds that cast a new light on the manor and its afterlife. Fine copper alloy casting was amply demonstrated by the 1990s excavations. Now a die for the making…
Gold-foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall at Aska, Hagebyhöga, Östergötland
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 lar…
Five hoards in eighty years. Landscape perspectives on new Bronze Age hoard finds around Lake Mälaren in Sweden
Since 1941, only five Bronze Age hoards have been found in the four provinces around Sweden’s Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren: three in Uppland, two in Södermanland, none in Västmanland or Närke. The most recent one appeared in 2016. Here each hoard is discussed in terms of its date, the regional affiliation of its contents, and its landscape situation. They all date from Per. V–VI, c. 950–520 cal BC, and are entirely dominated by locally made object…
Olof Svart's Two Manors
Early Modern Deviant Burial in Prehistoric Monuments in Sweden
This study deals with Early Modern burials in ancient monuments located nowhere near churches or execution sites. Examples are given from four prehistoric sites in different Swedish provinces, dating from the Early Neolithic through the Roman Period, with a total of 15 buried Early Modern individuals. Written sources along with details of the burial rite suggest that they are plague burials. Such were not welcome in churchyards because of concern…
Power in Närke. Elite settlement and animal art AD 150–1125 in a Swedish province
This survey of archaeological and onomastic evidence, prominently including Style I–III animal art, aims at identifying the most promising locations where elite manorial settlements of the period AD 375–1125 can be expected in the Medieval Swedish province of Närke. One such site of c. AD 600–800 has been partly excavated at Husby in Glanshammar. This parish is one of six that stand out by their unusually rich, numerous and sustained elite indica…
Human skull manipulation in Vendel-Viking Period Sweden and Denmark
This study reviews a sample of at least 34 manipulated skulls from 18 sites in Sweden and Denmark, all dating from the period AD 750–1050. For reasons of soil chemistry, Norway has not produced any unambiguous finds. Many extra skulls are found in or near graves and seem linked to a custom of slave decapitation at the grave side. Several are from proto-urban environments, some apparently once having been displayed on the surrounding palisades. Se…
Granhammar Man
In 1953 a human skeleton and a set of tools made from antler, bone, bronze, stone and wood was found embedded in marine clay under a former inlet of Lake Mälaren at Granhammar in Västra Ryd parish, Uppland province, Sweden. Andreas Oldeberg and Nils-Gustaf Gejvall published the find in 1959, and for half a century it did not see continued study. This paper reports on a comprehensive series of re-studies and laboratory analyses of the skeleton and…
Spheres of power and local dialects of Style II animal art in Vendel Period Zealand and Scania. Tissø, Lejre, Uppåkra, AD 570–770
This study aims to study the shifting relationships between elite manor sites on Zealand and in West Scania by means of regional differences in the Vendel Period animal art of c. AD 570–770. The study area includes the manors at Tissø, Lejre and Uppåkra. The material base consists of 77 largely recently found pieces of metalwork. First a four-phase seriation chronology for beast heads with explicit verbal definitions is established and juxtaposed…
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