Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age. (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lund, Julie; Arwill-Nordbladh, Elisabeth
• Is Part Of: European journal of archaeology. Volume 19:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 415
• Page End: 438
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: material citations -- corporal citations -- object biography -- Viking-age Scandinavia -- embodied memory -- use of the past -- landscape analyses -- burial rites; citations matérielles -- références au corps -- biographies d'objets -- époque viking en Scandinavie -- mémoire incarnée -- manipulation du passé -- étude du paysage -- rites funéraires; materielle Zitate -- Bezug zum Körper -- Biografie von Gegenständen -- Skandinavien -- Wikingerzeit -- verkörperte Erinnerung -- Umgang mit der Vergangenheit -- Landschaftsanalyse -- Bestattungssitten; Archaeology -- Europe -- Periodicals; Europe -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 936.005
• DOI: 10.1080/14619571.2016.1193979
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-9571

Abstract

Abstract : The flexibility of material culture encourages material phenomena to take a dynamic part in social life. An example of this is material citation, which can provide society with links to both the past and connections to contemporary features. In this article, we look at the diverging ways of relating to and reinventing the past in the Viking Age, exploring citations to ancient monuments in the landscape of Gammel Lejre on Zealand, Denmark. Complementing the placement of landscape monuments, attention is also brought to examples of mortuary citations related to bodily practices in Viking-age mortuary dramas, such as those visible at the mound of Skopintull on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden. Through these case studies, we explore the variability in citational strategies found across tenth-century Scandinavia.