This text is a short paper I submitted to a course at Linköping University: A formative moment in Norse religion seems to have been the war between the Aesir and Vanir gods. The story is described in both Voluspa and…
Category: Swedish Archeology
Medeltidsveckan 2022 – a Bit of a Disappointment
The annual Medieval Week has just ended in Visby, on the island of Gotland, with its city walls dating back to the 13th century (and before) and more than one hundred medieval churches around the island. While there were some…
Anundshög
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Viking Age Monuments in Brunna
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Gudings slott
In mid-July I finally had an opportunity to take part in an archaeological excavation. I spent four days on a dig by the Gotland Archaeological Field School at a place called Gudings slott, near Eke in southeastern Gotland.
Ancient Monuments on Lidingö 1: Revisited
After visiting the Stockby burial mound Lidingö 6:1 recently, I wrote to the Stockholm County Administrative Board,to point out that the sign describing the site was gone and that cement blocks had been dumped on the side of the mound.…
Ancient Monuments on Lidingö 3: Långängen Grave Field
Not far from Stockby is Långängens gård, a farmstead that apparently dates back to the Viking period. Today a popular cafe, the hill behind the current farm buildings was the cemetary (Lidingö 9:1) for the farmstead during the Late Iron…
Ancient Monuments on Lidingö 2: Stockby Grave Field
Just a couple of hundred meters from the Stockby burial mound is an unexcavated gravefield with five stone-setting mounds. The graves are believed to date from the Viking Age (the Late Iron Age ca 800-1050 AD). According to the sign,…
Ancient Monuments on Lidingö 1: Stockby Burial Mound
In connection with my Archeology course from Uppsala University, I have been visiting burial mounds and grave fields here on Lidingö. I was very surprised to discover a Bronze or Iron Age burial mound less than a 20 minute walk…