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Spring 1999 - Second Quarter
From the Editor
I'm still keeping way too busy! On top of the day-to-day regular business I added a trip to Southern Sweden to visit relatives and managed to pick up some more books.
Add 'way behind in my reading' to the list of things I'm doing. The server of these webpages has officially changed as well.
This is now a YaHoo!Geocities website. I hope to update some of those links during July. --Birgit, editor
NEWS ON THE WEB
More Finds at Uppåkra, Sweden
Looks like another person with a metal detector found more neat stuff
here. This time it's a highly decorative 6th century gold C-bracteate
and a vendel period bronze key. Uppåkra continues be a interesting
site..... more information is at
this website in swedish:
http://w1.403.telia.com/~u40305830/nr8_1999/knappar/utgravt/utgravt1.html
I visted the Lund Historical Museum in May and got to see a few of the
Uppåkra finds both new and old! This area just south of Lund has been known
for random artifacts for over fifty years and it is only recently that more systematic
work has been on-going. Evidently I missed a recent exhibiton of recently found
items, but I acquired some of the exhibit's publications. (See below) I was also
told a website was in the works and funding to put it on the web is being sought.
11-12th century Rock-Crystal Lenses
from Gotland are discussed in Oliver Graydon's article
on Discovering Archaeology Online. A team of researchers in Munich found that the aspheric design way ahead of its time. Regularity in the
curvature indicate these were lathe turned and the lenses are belived to be imports from Eastern Europe.
See "Medieval Craftsmen Rivaled Descartes" at
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0299toc/news.shtml
So Where are Halvdan's Parts...
...buried? The Norweigian Chieftain died around 860 c.e. and 4 parts of his body are said to be buried in different places. Researchers at the mound
in Hole, Norway do not believe the mound was one of those places. Long associated with Halvdan, samples of the mound's contents date in the 416 to
559 c.e. timespan. Another Discovering Archaeology Online
piece discusses the details. So does a short article, Investigations of a legendary mound, at
Viking Heritage's May News area.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Viking Exhibit Announced
The National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC will open an
exhibit on April 29, 2000, "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga," and make
a two-year tour of the continent, including New York, Los Angeles,
Houston, Chicago and Ottawa. First Lady, Hillary R.Clinton, announced
the 'millenium project' on Friday, April 9th. Article URL include:
a Spokane Net Article at
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=040999&ID=s558723&cat=
and a
CNN Article at
http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/08/AM-BRF--MillennialViking.ap/index.html
BOOK REVEIWS
Ambrosiani, Björn & Bo. G. Erikson (1993). Birka Vikingastaden Volym 3.
Wiken av Bra Böker i samarbete med Sveriges Television Kanal 1 samt
Riksantikvariämbetet och Statens Historiska Museer, Stockholm.
ISBN 91-7119-057-0 298:-SeK
3 ravens
In Swedish, the 3rd of 5 volumes published as companions to a swedish
television series on Birka. This one has articles on Runes from Björkö, Adelsö Hovgården, other
viking sites on the Baltic coast, and the archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe. (I need one more of these to have the whole
series!)
Andersson, Hans, Peter Carelli, & Lars Ersgard, eds. (1997), Alan Crozier,
Roger Tanner, & Caroline Patterson, translators.
Visions of the Past.
Trends and Traditions in Swedish Medieval Archaeology.
Riksantikvarieäbetet (Central Board of National Antiquities) and
Institute of Archaeology, Lund University, Sweden (with foreign
distribution by Almqvist & Wiksell International).
ISSN 1102-187X Riksantikvariämbetet Archaeologiska underso-kningar,
Skrifter nr 24
ISSN 0283-6874 Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology 19
ISBN 91-7209-082-0
808 pages, 395:-SeK
4 ravens
--A book of topical papers in English including, among others:
Sundnér, Barbro. "Building Stone as Archaeological Source Material."
Bäck, Mathias. " No Island is a Society. Regional and Interregional
Interaction in Central Sweden during the Viking Age."
Gustin, Ingrid. "Islam, Merchants, or King? Who was behind the
Manufacture of Viking Age Weights?."
Lundquist, Lars. 'Central Places and Central Areas in the Late Iron Age.
Some Examples from South-western Sweden."
Roslund, Mats. "Crumbs from the Rich Man's Table. Byzantine Finds in
Lund and Sigtuna, c. 980-1260."
Andersson, Gunnar. "A Struggle for Control. Reflections on the Change
of Religion in a Rural Context in the Eastern Mälaren Valley."
Arndrén, Anders. "Paradise Lost. Looking for Deer Parks in Medieval
Denmark."
Stibéus, Magnus. "Medieval Coastal Settlement in Western Sweden."
Jakobsson, Mikael. "On the Permanence of Plot Boundaries. Early Land
Survey Maps and Abandoned Regulated Villages."
Andersson, Annika. "Spatial Analysis in Time. Hammershus Castle."
Jörpeland, Lena Beronius. "Small Details Concealed. Patterns of
Charcoal in an Agrarian Settlement."
Eriksson, Anna-Lena. "Historical Monuments as Archaeological Objects."
Gunilla Gardelin. "Medieval Buildings as Historical Documents."
Härdh, Birgitta (1996). Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic
Study.
Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Series in 8°, No. 25.
Almquist & Wiksell International Stockholm.
ISSN 91-22-01724-0 180:-SeK
4 ravens
Information as the title with find distribution analyses for the Baltic region only. In English.
Ödman, Anders, et al. (1998). Uppråkra, rikedomar ur jorden.
(Utsta-llningskatalog.) Lunds Universitets Historiska Museum, Lund.
ISBN 91-630-6712-9 50:-SeK.
3 ravens
In Swedish, Exhibition catalog of a installation on display in 1998.
Very well illustrated, 57 pages.
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