In addition to the archive reports on my two seasons of fieldwork at the Late Medieval and Early Modern harbour of Djurhamn, I have now published a paper that discusses and interprets the results. It's in a symposium volume from the Royal Academy of Letters, edited by my friend Katarina Schoerner and bearing the name SkärgÃ¥rd och Ãrlog. Nedslag i Stockholms skärgÃ¥rds tidiga historia. ("Archipelago and naval warfare. Case studies in the early history of the Stockholm archipelago"). Other contributors are Jonathan Adams, Kajsa Althén, Jan Glete, Sven Lilja, Peter Norman, Mary Pousette, Johan Rönnby and Bengt Windelhed.
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So for those of us who don't read Scandy, how worthwhile would it be? Is it text heavy, or are there lots of diagrams and pics? I have a friend who would love it but he speaks as little Scandy as me, ie. can figure out what about 1/3 of the words in a sentence mean. He's the sort of person who would get a dictionary and persist if he also had plenty of visual cues to help.
I'd say that if you care a lot specifically about the Stockholm archipelago and 16/17th century ships, then it's a worthwhile buy.
And it is text heavy, not intended as a source book.
@Bob - I remember seing a shipwreck in a Portsmouth museum, something called the Mary Rose. A flagship for Henry VIII until it keeled over and sank when facing the enemy in 1545. Such things happened. But I agree that the Royal Swedish Navy has done a lot for Maritime Archaeology by capsizing more frequently than other navies...