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Review of "Børglum Domkirke og Kloster i middelalderen" (2013)

Review of "Across the North Sea. Later Historical Archaeology in Britain and Denmark, c. 1500-2000 AD" (2012)

One of the most famous finds from the earliest historical period of the cityof Ribe (southern Jutland, Denmark) is the fragment of a human skull, with adrilled hole, that has a relatively long runic inscription incised on one surface.Scholars have discussed the reading, interpretation and dating of the runesever since the piece was excavated in 1973. In the present article, the findcircumstances and other archaeological background information is presented;they permit the time of loss or deposition of the runic object to be narroweddown with great probability to the years A.D. 725–50.

Abstract in Undetermined Review of Martin Carver & Jan Klápštĕ (eds.): The Archaeology of Medieval Europe, 2, Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries. Acta Jutlandica, Humanities Series 2011/9. Aarhus University Press, Århus 2011.

In this paper runestones are compared to early Christian grave monuments, the so-called Eskilstuna cists, in an area of Västergötland extending from Husaby to Sparlösa. In order to compare the carving techniques, runestones and grave monuments were analysed by 3D scanning and groove analysis employing a method developed at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm University. The hypothesis is that carving technique as a part of material culture reflects the mobility patterns of rune carvers, their contacts and the relationship between individuals and groups. Results indicate that the carving of runestones was relatively uniform over the whole area investigated, whereas the technique of those who carved grave monuments clearly differs between the main sites Husaby, Häggesled and Kållands-Råda. This may suggest that runestone carvers had contacts with one another, while the carvers of the grave monuments kept to their own local site with a lesser degree of interaction among themselves. In a wider context, this change in mobility patterns may be a part of the general restructuring of eleventh century society resulting from Christianization.

Review of Göran Gruber, "Medeltider. Samtida moblliseringsprocesser kring det förflutnas värden" (Linköping 2010)

Romanesque round church towers - a Skandinavian perspective: The aim of the article is to discuss the interpretation of the Romanesque round church towers seen from a Scandinavian perspective. After a research history and a geographical outlook, which passes Ireland, England and Holstein, the article focusses on the 15-19 churches with round towers in medieaval Denmark, Sweden and Norway, with the main part in Southern Schleswig and Scania; none are known from Finland. The chronology and social context, function and meaning of the church towers are discussed. The Romanesque round church towers are also discussed in relation to the 33 known Romanesque round churches in the same area. Finally a catalogue of the round church towers in Scandinavia is presented. The theses of the article is, that the building material was not decisive for the choice of the round architecture, at least not in Scandinavia. The round church towers were unfortified burial memorials and bell towers, where the architecture, as was the case for the round churches, copied central church buildings in the West. In a period, where most churches were without a tower or had square towers, the round church towers were examples of a “conspicuous symbolism”. The initiative to build the round church towers must have been taken by an aristocracy, who participated or were inspired by the contemporary crusades at the Baltic Sea, and who used the towers in their mutual competition on status.Corrections in the pdf 2015.