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Viking Age Archaeology, Viking Studies, Viking Age Scandinavia, Vikings in the North Atlantic, Viking identities, Cultural Theory, and 70 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Medieval Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Art Theory, Material Culture Studies, Social Theory, Literary Criticism, Early Medieval Archaeology, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Archaeology of ethnicity, Byzantine Literature, Byzantine Iconography, Archaeology of Ritual, Byzantine Architecture, Dress and Personal Adornment (Archaeology), Old Church Slavonic, Slavic Archaeology, History of Istanbul, Byzantine Sigillography, Runestones, Slavs, Abbasid History, Islamic Archaeology, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Border Studies, Border Theory, Burial Customs, Culture, Ritual, Tradition, Archaeology, Byzantine history and archaeology, Medieval Balkans, Early medieval Bulgaria, Kievan Rus', Byzantine historiography, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Eurasian Nomads, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Vikings, Urbanism, Identity, Anglo-Saxons, Early Medieval Period, Viking Age Weapons, Viking Swords, Old Rus', Vikings in the East, Varangians, Global cities, Istanbul, Gated Communities, Gentrification, Urban Renewal, Poverty, Cultural and Spatial Representations of the Urban Poor, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Crusades, Frontier Studies, Pilgrimage Routes, Medieval Scandinavia, Viking Age, Religious and Magical Practices, Icelandic Sagas, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, Iron Age, Viking Age and Medieval coinage and monetary history, Samanids, and Visual Culture edit
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Fedir Androshchuk defended his PhD in 1998 at the University of Kiev (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev). ... moreFedir Androshchuk defended his PhD in 1998 at the University of Kiev (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev). During 1996−2000 he was employed as a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the same university. He lives and works in Sweden since 2000. His most recent published works include ”Scandinavan Antiquities of Southern Rus” (Paris 2012), "Vikings in the East − Contacts along the Road to Byzantium A.D. 900−1100,"(Uppsala, 2013) and “Viking Swords. Swords and Social Aspects of weaponry in Viking Age Society (Stockholm, 2014), "Images of Power: Byzantium and Nordic Coinage c. 997-1035" (Paris-Kyiv, 2016). edit
Книжку присвячено історії скандинаво-українських контактів доби раннього середньовіччя. Данію і Русь у їхніх взаємозв’язках розглянуто на широкому тлі археологічних, нумізматичних, а також писемних джерел. У книжці використано... more
Книжку присвячено історії скандинаво-українських контактів
доби раннього середньовіччя. Данію і Русь у їхніх взаємозв’язках
розглянуто на широкому тлі археологічних, нумізматичних, а також
писемних джерел. У книжці використано матеріали, що зберігаються
в музеях Данії та України. Видання містить додаток — Роскільдську
хроніку XII століття, яку вперше перекладено українською мовою.
Видання здійснено до 30-річчя встановлення дипломатичних
відносин між Королівством Данія та Україною за підтримки
Посольства Данії в Україні та Агентства культури та
палаців Міністерства культури Данії
доби раннього середньовіччя. Данію і Русь у їхніх взаємозв’язках
розглянуто на широкому тлі археологічних, нумізматичних, а також
писемних джерел. У книжці використано матеріали, що зберігаються
в музеях Данії та України. Видання містить додаток — Роскільдську
хроніку XII століття, яку вперше перекладено українською мовою.
Видання здійснено до 30-річчя встановлення дипломатичних
відносин між Королівством Данія та Україною за підтримки
Посольства Данії в Україні та Агентства культури та
палаців Міністерства культури Данії
Ця книга — критичний огляд біографії норвезького короля Гаральда Сігурдссона Суворого (1015–1066). На основі даних писемних, археологічнихі нумізматичних джерел проаналізовано свідчення скандинавських саг іпоезії скальдів. У книзі... more
Ця книга — критичний огляд біографії норвезького короля Гаральда Сігурдссона Суворого (1015–1066). На основі даних писемних, археологічнихі нумізматичних джерел проаналізовано свідчення скандинавських саг іпоезії скальдів. У книзі містяться екскурси в історію ранньосередньовічних міст Скандинавії, Русі та Візантії, в яких Гаральду довелося побувати.Також розглянуто історію монетного карбування та зброї його доби. Детально досліджено літературні й матеріальні свідчення про вміст скарбів, добутих Гаральдом у Візантії, відстежено їхній можливий вплив на ідеологію та політику його сучасників — правителів на Русі та в Північній Європі.
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Medieval Studies, Old Norse Literature, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Scandinavia, Byzantine Studies, and 11 moreByzantine History, Viking Age Archaeology, Byzantine Archaeology, Old Rus', Viking Age Scandinavia, Icelandic Sagas, Vikings, Vikings in the East, Vikings in the East, Varangians, Old Rus', Varangians, and Viking Swords
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About 300 artefacts including find circumstances described in Russian with images and index translated into English.
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Material Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Urbanism, Viking Age Archaeology, Old Rus', and 10 moreViking Age Scandinavia, Identity, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings in the East, Varangians, Early Medieval Period, Viking Age Weapons, and Viking Swords
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Early Medieval Archaeology, Viking Studies, Viking Age Archaeology, Old Rus', Scandinavia (Archaeology), and 14 moreViking Age Scandinavia, Viking age Sweden, Birka, Early Medieval Weapons and Warfare, Vikings in the East, Social Interpretation of Archaeological Sources, VikingAge Societies, Varangians, Viking Age Weapons, Viking Age Denmark, Viking Age Iceland, Viking Weaponry, Viking Swords, Viking Age Norway, and Viking Age Russia
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Poetry, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Viking Age Archaeology, Sagas, and 12 moreOld Rus', Iron Age, Cultural Interactions, Vikings in the East, Varangians, Runes, Viking Age Weapons, Viking Swords, Archaeology of Human Contacts, Religion and Artefacts, Rune stones, and Social Interpretation of Archaeology and Artefacts
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The paper scrutinizes evidence for the local production of weapons on Gotland during the Viking Age. Attention is paid to semi-finished pieces of sword hilts as well as a unique spearhead with a runic inscription discovered at Svenskens... more
The paper scrutinizes evidence for the local production of weapons on Gotland during the Viking Age. Attention is paid to semi-finished pieces of sword hilts as well as a unique spearhead with a runic inscription discovered at Svenskens on Gotland. The spearhead is discussed from typological, chronological, decorative and epigraphical points of view.
On the basis of the analysis a new dating is suggested for the inscription in short-twig runes. The results underline the importance of Gotland in the production and export of weaponry during the Viking Age.
On the basis of the analysis a new dating is suggested for the inscription in short-twig runes. The results underline the importance of Gotland in the production and export of weaponry during the Viking Age.
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This paper is a critical response to the recently published ‘A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed by Genomics’ (Hedenstierna-Jonson and others, 2017). Its purpose is to investigate the archaeological sources involved in the DNA research on... more
This paper is a critical response to the recently published ‘A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed by Genomics’ (Hedenstierna-Jonson and others, 2017). Its purpose is to investigate the archaeological sources involved in the DNA research on Birka grave 581. It shows that problems exist with both the excavation methodology and the recording strategy employed by its investigators and publishers. Based on the analysis of documentation and finds kept at the Swedish Historical Museum, this paper comes to the conclusion that grave 581 contained a primary male grave with weaponry and a secondary female burial.
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The main idea of our paper is to present a neglected collection of archaeological objects of Syrian origin stored at the National Museum of History of Ukraine. The collection was acquired in two stages – sometime before 1917 and in 1936.... more
The main idea of our paper is to present a neglected collection of archaeological objects of Syrian origin stored at the National Museum of History of Ukraine. The collection was acquired in two stages – sometime before 1917 and in 1936. Its former owners were Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko - famous Ukrainian patrons of art. The collection was acquired by the museum before 1917 and consists of 348 objects, including ornamented and undecorated finger-rings, pendants, bracelets, temple-rings, buttons, brooches, buckles, gaming pieces, cone seals, stamps and cross-shaped pendants. The majority of items are cross-shaped pendants and finger rings. The considerable number of the former indicate that it was due to them that the collection was purchased by Khanenko. According to the accounts of two Khanenko’s contemporaries, N.N.Kondakov and N.I.Petrov, the original owner of the collection was an engineer who worked in railway construction in Damascus before 1914. The construction of a railway connecting Damascus with Mecca started in 1900 and finished in 1908. In 1913 a station along this road was built in the very centre of Damascus. Despite lack of professional archaeological documentation of these artefacts, they are important for two main reasons. Many objects can be dated to 6th – 13th centuries, i.e. to the period which is very poorly documented by professional archaeological excavations in Syria. Some artefacts, from the collection, of Byzantine origin in the Ukrainian collection bear inscriptions in Greek and Armenian and indicate a clear cultural and religious diversity of Syria in the early medieval period.
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'The Gift to Men and the Gift to the Gods: Weapon Sacrifices and the Circulation of Swords in Viking Age Society.' in Festschrift for Johan Callmer., in Zwischen Fjorden und Steppe. Festschrift für Johan Callmer zum 65. Geburtstag. Claudia Theune, Felix Biermann, Ruth Struwe und Gerson H. Jeute (Hrsg.) Internationale Archäologie - Studia honoraria, Band 31. (Berlin, 2010).more
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'Vikingar och bönder. Några anmärkningar om sociala tolkningen av svärden och de långväga kontakterna under vikingatiden' in Current issues in Nordic archaeology. Proceeding of the 21th Conference of Nordic Archaeologists, 6-9. Sept. 2001, Akureyri, Iceland. Society of Icelandic Archaeologists. (Reykjavik, 2004), 67-72.more
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'Chernigov et Shestovitsa, Birka et Hovgården: le modèle urbain scandinave vu de l`est' in Les Centres russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient. Actes du Colloque International tenu au Collége de France en octobre 1997, édités par M. Kazanski, A. Nercessian et C. Zuckerman (Réalités byzantines 7), (Paris, 2000), 258-266.more
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