Re-imagining Periphery

Introduction by Charlotta Hillerdal & Kristin Ilves

Settlement and Spatiality

1.Marianne Hem Eriksen - Dream-houses of the Late Iron Age: The house and the self

2.Marte Spangen & Johan E. Arntzen - Sticky Structures and Opportunistic Builders.

The Construction and Social Role of Longhouses in Northern Norway

3.Susanna Eklund & Anneli Sundkvist - The Tale of three Tuna Sites. A Classic scholarly

problem enlightened by new archaeological material

4.Helena Hulth - Ultuna – a late Iron Age gateway to Uppsala

5.Anders Andren - A new central place in Southwest Scania?

Field and Methodology

1.Elin Engström - In the archaeological house

2.Kristin Ilves & Kim Darmark - Striking a blow for the plough layer. Exploring diverging

interpretations of a Late Iron Age site

3.Andreas Hennius & John Ljungkvist - Correlations and conflicts between 14C dates

and find chronologies in a transition phase – exemplified by the Ottar's mound in

Vendel

4.Daniel Löwenborg & Åsa Larsson - The Bright New (Digital) Future of the Past

5.Helena Victor – Sandby Borg – a frozen moment of the Migration Period

Text and Translation

1.Bosse Gräslund - Beowulf. The Scandinavian background

2.Jhonny Therus - Rebooting the Gospel for a Germanic audience. A structural analysis

of Heliand the Saxon Gospel, an acculturation poem from the 9th century

3.Anne-Sofie Gräslund - “Björn and Torkel they raised all these kumls”

4.Lotte Hedaeger - Knowledge systems of the past? Iconography, typology and change

from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages

5.Alex Sandmark – Bog bodies: Iron Age law in the landscape

Interaction and Impact

1.Jan-Henrik Fallgren - Settlement reduction or continuity? Reflections on the Early

Medieval Åland

2.Charlotta Hillerdal - Negotiating narratives in a newly settled Norse landscape. An

emic perspective on the reuse of ancient monuments in the Scottish Isles.

3.Neil Price and Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson - War music: martial funerals from the

Viking-Age Scandinavian world

4.Olof Sundqvist - Female Cultic Leaders in Germanic and Ancient Scandinavian

Sources

5.Svante Fisher - The Solidus from Slättäng