Small Things – Wide Horizons

Studies in honour of Birgitta Hårdh

Lars Larsson, Fredrik Ekengren, Bertil Helgesson, Lars Larsson, Fredrik Ekengren, Bertil Helgesson

• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781784911317
• eBook ISBN: 9781784911324
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This publication honours Birgitta Hårdh on her 70th birthday. Birgitta Hårdh is one of the leading experts on European Viking Age, engaged in diverse research projects, and also a vital collaborator in various networks specializing in the period. Through time, Birgitta has extended her research to comprise other periods of the Iron Age. A feature common to all Birgitta Hårdh's research is that she has been able, through analysis of a body of finds, to broaden the perspective, not least geographically through her profound knowledge of phenomena in Northern Europe and indeed all of Europe. Therefore, this book has been given the title Small Things – Wide Horizons. A total of fourty titles have been submitted to the volume. The presentations include a number of perspectives mainly of Iron Age. Themes as silver economy, coins, trinkets, burials, crafts, farms and fields, centrality and transformations give a view of the variation of contributions nationally and internationally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Birgitta Hårdh
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Preface
• silver
• The background and the early history of the neck rings of the Glazov type (also called Permian) and the beginning of East-Wes connections in Early Medieval Northern Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries
• The social weight of silver in the Íslendingasögur and the Viking Age hoards
• 100 Viking Age hoards of Bornholm
• Hoards and sinuous snakes
• At the end of the silver flow
• coins
• Viking Age coins found in Sweden
• The earliest coin hoard of Lund
• Nicholas of St. Albans, Anketil and Alfvini—three Danish moneyers of English origin from the 12th and 13th centuries
• Three Crowns—Coin motive and (trans-)national symbol
• trinkets
• Buttons as brooches
• Hand rings
• Gold in Guleboda
• A little piece of silver from the Romele ridge area
• Two brooch-knobs and a handful of thoughts
• Notices on the Notitia
• Close to Asgard – between West and South
• Shield-formed pendants and solar symbols of the Migration period
• “Vikings in Bavaria”
• A female statement of power?
• A Hind to your Health!
• burials
• Small items and major conclusions
• Uncovering more Death
• Vester Galsted – an inhumation grave at P. Frey’s field
• Rune-stones and the localisation of graves
• Pidgirci (Western Ukraine) and Havor (Gotland, Sweden) —two grave finds connected with Byzantine Christianity
• Pot and amulet pendants in the early mediaeval grave 130 of Frankfurt-Harheim
• crafts
• Production of Scandinavian-style sword hilts on the southern Baltic coast?
• Joining threads – a discussion of the archaeology of the tacit 
• farms and fields
• What did the Wells conceal?
• Medicinal herbs—useful and fatal
• centrality
• Small things and wide horizons from a Birka perspective
• Detecting Vester Kærby
• Early medieval trading centres and transport systems between Dorestad, Ribe and Wolin
• Quedlinburg before the Ottonian kings
• The relationship between Uppåkra and Lund—a status update
• The Trelleborg constructors
• transformations
• From replica to relic—Gokstad goes abroad
• Monumental make over?
• Vikings and the Western Frontier
• dust
• Dust to dust
• List of contributors
• Birgitta Hårdh—a Bibliography