Christianization in Scandinavia
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Since the early days of archaeology, Viking-Age burials and burial customs have attracted much attention. Evocative tales of warriors and their deeds preserved in Old Norse poetry and sagas, and recorded in the historical chronicles of... more
In the following essay, I want to point out the changes in the Scandinavian countries, that came with the process of Christianization and through important events who were crucial for these changes.
Masters Thesis: The reputation and importance of Ari hinn fróði in the development of the Icelandic literary corpus is evident and widely recognized, but nevertheless, the importance of Íslendingabók in the development of the... more
Tesch, Sten (ed.). 2017. THE SHIFT - Viking Age religious custom and Christian faith. A multidisciplinary perspective on the Christianization process in the Mälaren area (Sweden). Published by Artos förlag. Utgångspunkt för denna... more
Will the current discovery in Poland force us to reevaluate what we think about the Viking Age outside of nowadays Scandinavia? The death and possible burial site of the Danish king Harald Gormson Bluetooth till now was one of history’s... more
An Article in Scandinavian Journal of History (2013), pp. 273-295.
See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03468755.2013.803498
See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03468755.2013.803498
Summary: Sigtuna is the oldest town still extant in Sweden. It was founded c. 980, almost two hundred years before urbanization, the real expansion of towns, took place in medieval Sweden. Sigtuna is situated on Lake Mälaren in East... more
This dissertation considers Viking Age Scandinavian inscribed runestones in order to determine their societal origins and the impacts they had on Viking Age religious cultural changes. The three types of monuments discussed are:... more
Some recent studies concerning early medieval Europe have suggested that Scandinavia and Francia represented two ideological poles with which other populations within the Germanic world might have intended to align themselves. While such... more
I 2020 annoncerede arkæologen Sven Rosborn nyheden om, at man havde opdaget en tidligere ukendt krønike, "Gesta Wulinensis ecclesiae pontificum", forfattet af et øjenvidne til centrale hændelser i Harald Blåtands liv.
Tesi di laurea triennale in Mediazione linguistica e culturale, presso l'Università LUMSA, 22/10/2018, filologia germanica.
This dissertation studies the transition from the Viking Age to Middle Ages in Sweden using the Romanesque churches as the main source material. The aim is to explain societal change, especially that connected to land ownership and... more
We present a hypothesis for the location of Barcelona Roman amphitheatre from a series of reasoned archaeological, urbanistical, toponymical, topographical and epigraphycal arguments. All the information comes together in the place where... more
Paper given to a congress, Saint Henry and the Christianization of Finland, marking the 850 anniversary of the Finnish Church, published in Suomen Museo – Finskt Museum 2006, Helsinki 2007, pp. 39-54. The wider context of the Danish... more
During 2017, a Viking age - early-medieval grave field was excavated in Oppeby, Nyköping Municipality, County of Södermanland, Sweden. The oldest burials were at the earliest from the late ninth century, while most graves could be dated... more
In 2013 a small archaeological excavation was carried out inside the nave of Uppåkra church, which resulted in the discovery of several children’s burials. One of them was dated to the Early Middle Ages, which opens up for the possibility... more
The transmission of law in pre-Christian Iceland was an oral process in an oral society. In oral societies, such transmission processes may be characterized as a cultivation of cultural memory, which suggests that it was transmitted... more
In Old Norse the word troll is inextricably linked to the sphere of magic: in mythology it indicates supernatural creatures almost exclusively of female sex, often associated with giants with whom they embody both the spirits of the dead... more
The aim of this paper is to discuss some aspects of early Christianity in Rus', especially the role played by people of Scandinavian descent, known until the end of the tenth century as Rus' and subsequently as Varangians, and whether... more
The sagas of kings often display grand finales and impressive endings. From time to time, they also display the so called ‘beautiful deaths’, i.e. those deaths that have the immediate advantage of rousing admiration in a secular sense and... more
The process of Christianisation of Norway is traditionally linked to the effort of Olaf Tryggvasson and Olaf Haraldsson (later to be Saint Olaf) and the period of 995-1030. However, given the fact that people from the Scandinavian... more
Planerad föreläsning om romersk porfyr för Sällskapet San Micheles Vänner på Medelhavsmuseet i Stockholm 2020-03-11. Samma dag deklarerade WHO att Covid-19 var en pandemi, vilket gjorde det problematiskt att genomföra föreläsningen. Ett... more
Nuova Antologia Militare, Rivista Interdisciplinare della Società Italiana di Storia Militare, Anno 3 – n. 9, Storia Militare Medievale, a cura di Marco Merlo, Antonio Musarra, Fabio Romanoni, Peter Sposato, Gennaio 2022, pp. 45 - 91.
Улав Триггвасон вошёл в историю Киевской Руси после появления в дружине князя Владимира I. В Норвегии, куда Триггвасон вернулся и был избран королём в 995 г., современные историки рассматривают его как одного из правителей, заложивших... more
In this article, the author uses different dating methods to try to show that the Västerhus cemetery was established between c. 1125 and 1250 and that it ceased to be used between c. 1375 and 1500. This time period is later than the dates... more
Identità Multiple. Problemi, Metodologie e Fonti dall'Antichità ad oggi, Volume II - Tarda Antichità e Medioevo, Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Atti del Convegno del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, 10-11-12 dicembre 2020,... more
New interdisciplinary research methods and new models have been developed by the contributors to present new vistas of sacrality in the Scandinavian and the Baltic landscape. To open up these case studies, a selection of over sixty images... more
This article explores, by using the model of inculturation, how Christ entered the world of the medieval Frisians. (1) It investigates what terms for "Christ" and "Lord" were adopted;.(2) It explores what imaginative roles were assigned... more
Full title: ‘Fears, Sights and Slaughter. Expressions of Fright and Disgust in the Baltic Missionary Historiography (11th-13th centuries)’, in: Per Förnegård, Erika Kihlman, Mia Åkestam, Gunnel Engwall (eds.), Tears, Sighs and Laughter.... more