Viking History, e-books and reports on line
A report of Viking Beads from the Port of Trade at Frojel, Gotland, Sweden. The report is 12 pages long, well illustrated with detailed pictures of different kinds of beads. There is also a short description about how beads were made in Viking Age. The report is extracted from the CD-R about Beads (the CD is holding some 200 detailed photos of Viking Beads). The report is written by Associate Professor Dan Carlsson. Price $3.00
Combs were used by everybody in those days, and constitute a normal object in Viking Age graves. The report of Viking and Medieval combs is giving a good picture of different forms of combs used during Viking Age and Middle Ages, based on material from the island of Gotland, Sweden. The report is 12 pages long, illustrated with detailed pictures of different kinds of combs. There is also a short description about how combs were made. The report is extracted from the CD-R about Combs (The CD is illustrated with about 100 detailed photos of different kinds of combs). The report is written by Associate Professor Dan Carlsson. Price $3.00
This ebook, being the PhD work in archaeology by Martin Rundkvist, is about one of the biggest and most fascinating prehistoric gravefields in Scandinavia. It is to be found on the island of Gotland, Sweden, situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The gravefield contained from the beginning some 6.600 graves, covering the time period from around the birth of Christ to around AD 1100. The book is 251 pages, and gives a detailed account of all the different excavations taken place at the gravefield. There are maps and many drawings of different kinds of artefacts. Price: Free
This book is the analytical companion of Barshalder 1, the monograph on Gotland’s largest prehistoric cemetery. The main source material for this book are graves from a period of more than seven centuries (the Late Iron Age, c. AD 375-1100) with a gap of two centuries near the end (the Early and Middle Viking Period, c. AD 790-1000). Its contents are organised under three headings: chronology (chapter 2), social identity (chapter 3) and religious identity (chapter 4). One over-arching aim of this work is to make explicit and test the often somewhat intuitively conceived results of much previous research. The book is about 100 pages, illustrated with maps and drawings. Price: Free
This report deals with knives, mainly from Gotland, and from graves. As such it very much displays the Gotlandic traditions in knife making. But most every day items, such as combs, ceramics, needles and knives, were more or less mass-produced and as such are very much the same all over the Viking world. The report is extracted from the CD-R about Knives (The CD is illustrated with many detailed photos of different kinds of knives, and parts of knives). The report is written by Associate Professor Dan Carlsson. Price $3.00
This report deals with Viking Jewellery, mainly from Gotland, but also with references to other parts of the Viking world. The report deals with female as well as male costume jewellery. The report is extracted from the CD-R about Jewellery (The CD is illustrated with many detailed photos of different kinds of jewellery, from belt buckles to pennanular brooches, from typical Gotlandic female brooches to arm-and finger-rings). The report is written by Associate Professor Dan Carlsson. Price $4.00
This report is a short summary of the results from the excavation of the Viking Age harbour at Fröjel on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The excavation, still going on (see main page under the headline Excavation 2004), is concerned with the investigation of the trade and harbour situation on Gotland in the Viking Age. The harbour site covers an area of about 10 ha, and so far some 100 graves from Viking Age have been investigated and some 35.000 objects registered in the database. The report is in English and written by Associate Professor Dan Carlsson. Price $5.00
The archaeological excavations at Fröjel Viking Age harbour are coming to an end for some year's to come, not that there is nothing more to excavate, but more that we have after 11 year's of excavations a tremendous huge material to analyse and to publish. As a start, Anders Söderberg and Ny Björn Gustafsson, have made some analyses of remains from metalworking form the excavations carried out the year 2000. And the results are astonishing. They have just started, but their preliminary results suggest an immense silver metal working at the site. Download the extract from Viking Heritage Magazine, and read the news! Free of charge
This report is a short summary of the results from the excavation of an Icelandic farm with its church, carried out from 1995 and onwards. It is a fascinating example of how to combine information from field archaeology with the information from the Icelandic Sagas. An interesting information is the discovery of cremation graves at the site, being the first time in the history of Iceland to be found. The report is written and edited by Professor Jesse Byock in cooperation with Phillip Walker, Jon Erlandson, Per Holck, Davide Zori, Magnús Gudmundson and Mark Tveskov. Free of charge
