List posted by Ingemar Nordigen to Germanic-L@yahoogroups.com in March 2005

(Books end articles concerning early germanic history, archaeology & lingustics)

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Recent and Forthcoming Conference Papers and Lectures

'Skaldic verse: A case of literacy avant la lettre?'; Literacy Seminar, University of Aarhus, April 2002.

'Memorials in words and writing', Runeston, Magt og Mindesmaerker, Askov Hojskole, Denmark, October 2002

Dirks rekommendation om bok från 500-1000-tal (red. Judith Jesch):

"Using the evidence of archaeology, poetry, legal texts and annals, this volume investigates the social, economic and symbolic structures
of early Scandinavia at the time of the Viking expansion. The contributors provide an outline ethnograpjy, covering dwellings and
settlements, kinship and social relations, law, political structures and external relations, rural and urban economies, and the ideology
of warfare. The topics are discussed through case-studies from the contributors' recent research, illustrating the changing scholarly
interpretations of this formative period in Scandinavian history. By addressing these key research questions, the contributions trace the
background to and the impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition
from the Viking age to the medieval period in Scandinavia. This book brings together for the first time in English a wealth of current
Scandinavian archaeological, historical and cultural research. JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Contributors: LENA HOLMQUIST OLAUSSON, BENTE MAGNUS, E. VESTERGAARD, BIRGIT ARRHENIUS, STEFAN BRINK, LISE BENDER JORGENSEN, SVEND NIELSEN, FRANDS HERSCHEND, NIELS LUND, DAVID N. DUMVILLE, JUDITH JESCH, DENNIS H. GREEN."

Scandinavians from the Vendel period to the tenth century
400 pages
Size: 23 x 15 cm
ISBN: 0 85115 867 6
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 02/Aug/2002
Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology

 

Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt Work and Worship Laser Scanner Analysis of Viking Age Rune Stones

ISBN 91-89338-10-3
ISSN 1102-1195

This is a study of collaboration on Viking Age and Early Middle Age rune stones. For this study, a method for surface structure analysis by laser scanning has been employed. The aim with this method is to distinguish between individual rune carvers in rock by their cutting techniques, as witnessed by the cut marks. The probability of the existence of individual cutting techniques is supported by neurophysiological and psychological kinetic research on individual motor performance.
Conclusions of stylistic and runological studies of regional or chronological issues concerning rune stones often include a reservation for the possibility of individual variation. Attributions and dating are closely related to individual, chronological, regional and functional variation. Technical analyses of the cutting techniques have come to be regarded as a hypothetical but unachievable means to distinguish between individuals. One of the complicating factors is individual variability, due to ageing, increasing skill, sickness, fatigue or change of tools. The method has been developed and tested by analyses of a recently cut reference material and on the Sparlösa Monument from 9th c. AD, a rune stone where it is known that a part of the inscription has been added at a later occasion. The usefulness of the method is discussed in terms of hit accuracy in classification, individual variability and how sources of errors such as weathering and treading may effect the variables that are used to characterise the cut marks.
The hypotheses that have been tested are if collaboration on rune stones can be made visible by a surface structure analysis, if certain
parts of the ornament or inscription have been added at a later occasion and if there is a division of labour that is similar on rune stones dating to the early and the late Viking Age.
The study material is mainly collected by plasteline casts from 11th. c. AD rune stones in Uppland, Sweden. These have been compared to rune stones in other regions.

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