Norway:
Category: Archaeology
Runologist James E. Knirk has published a report on the recently found Hogganvik rune stone. His transliteration is[?]kelbaþewas:s(t)^ainaR:aaasrpkf aarpaa:inanana(l/b/w)oR eknaudigastiR ekerafaRHis translation isSkelba-þewaR's ["Shaking-servant's"] stone. (Alphabet magic: aaasrpkf aarpaa). ?Within/From within the ?wheel-nave/?cabin-corner. I NaudigastiR [="Need-guest"]. I, the Wolverine.So...
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Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Inscriptions in the early 24-character futhark are rare. And when you find them, their messages are usually not straight-forward.
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Posted by Martin R at 9:56 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
It's a copper mine that was worked from 1723 until shortly after 1945. This is one of the coldest parts of Norway, which means that the wooden structures don't decay much through microbial action -- they mainly just erode.
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Category: Archaeology
A veteran scholar appeals to Thomas Kuhn's old theory of paradigm shifts in order to evade criticism of her work.
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Category: Archaeology
While ERIH recognises three impact grades, the NDS has only two grades.
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Category: Archaeology
Grade A means global readership. Grade B means international readership. Grade C means national readership.
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Category: Music
Yes he is extremely lewd, yes he is psychedelic, yes he has a plastic synth sound...
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Category: Archaeology
"Inside the tinned food we found so much lead, that it hung like icicles inside the cans".
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Category: Archaeology
Around the time when a senior academic retires, she will, if she's lucky, receive a Festschrift. The word is German and means "celebration publication": typically, it's an anthology put together by her colleagues and students. The contents of a...
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Category: Archaeology
Even the stones in the bottoms of the post holes are visible!
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Category: History
This book is at heart an ethno-political tract.
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Category: Archaeology
The first 100 volumes of Fornvännen are now available freely on the web!
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Category: Archaeology
An entire hillside is covered by curious circular scars where people have obviously extracted stone.
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Category: Archaeology
Ideas diverge about who was who.
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Category: Archaeology
The professor is studying a Roman/Migration Period large-scale iron production site.
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Category: Humour
Satan laughing spreads his wings, as TV comedian Ozzy Osborne used to sing.
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Category: Archaeology
The Sachsensymposium is the main conference for archaeologists working with post-Roman, pre-Viking Northern Europe.
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Category: Archaeology
Over at my buddy Frans-Arne's blog Arkeologi i Nord I found a great quotation from Norwegian archaeologist and anti-Nazi politician Anton Wilhelm Brøgger (1884-1951):"Det vi vet er så uendelig lite mot det som er hendt. Arkeologen er som den som...
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Category: Biology
Everything hurries to bloom and procreate before the cold and snow returns.
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Category: Archaeology
The find demonstrates the existence of this skeletal trait among 11th century Norwegians as well.
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Posted by Martin R at 1:39 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
People before have quit digging when they reached the edge of the carved panel.
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Category: Archaeology
An old sorcerer has passed away.
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Category: Archaeology
Even heavily codified religions, such as Judaism or Christianity, aren't coherent.
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Category: Archaeology
There is very little archaeology here.
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Category: Archaeology
"What needs to be considered is the agency of the objects ..."
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Category: Sweden
Scandinavians are unusually cool about nudity in certain well-defined situations.
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Category: Archaeology
A new peer-reviewed intercontinental archaeology journal has just been announced.
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Category: Archaeology
An item of particular interest to Scandinavian archaeologists and historians at Project Runeberg is an almost complete run of Antiqvarisk Tidskrift.
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Category: Archaeology
One of the founding fathers of Norwegian archaeology and place-name scholarship was Oluf Rygh (1833-1899). In 1875, he became Scandinavia's first professor of archaeology. One of the most enduring parts of his legacy is his 1885 book Norske Oldsager,...
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Category: Archaeology
A recurring theme in my blogging of the past year (e.g. here: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4) has been that a degree in Scandinavian archaeology (BA, MA or PhD) is almost entirely useless from a career perspective. The...
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Posted by Martin R at 7:31 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Ship burials are rare and signal royal status: Sutton Hoo, Oseberg, Gokstad, Borre, Tune. Burials in smaller boats, large enough for only three or four pairs of oars and useless on the high sea, are far more common (though...
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
