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Avaldsnes - A Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia

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The Royal manor Avaldsnes in southwest Norway holds a rich history testified by 13th century sagas and exceptional graves from the first millennium AD. In 2011–12 the settlement was excavated. In this first book from the project crucial results from an international team of 23 scholars are published. The chapters cover a wide array of topics ranging from building-remains and scientific analyses of finds to landownership and ritual manifestations.

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Dagfinn Skre, University of Oslo, Norway.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Preface

    V
    Dagfinn Skre
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    Table of content

    IX
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    Abbreviations

    XIII
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  • Section A. Scholarly Background
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    1. Rethinking Avaldsnes and Kormt

    3
    Dagfinn Skre
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    2. Exploring Avaldsnes 1540–2005

    11
    Dagfinn Skre
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    3. Avaldsnes and Kormt in Old Norse Written Sources

    35
    Else Mundal
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    4. The Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project’s Research Plan and Excavation Objectives

    53
    Dagfinn Skre
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  • Section B. Excavation Results 2011–12
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    5 Excavations and Surveys 1985-2012

    65
    Egil Lindhart Bauer and Mari Arentz Østmo
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    6. Site Periods and Key Contexts

    83
    Mari Arentz Østmo and Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    7. The Prehistoric Settlement and Buildings

    103
    Mari Arentz Østmo and Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    8 Prehistoric Agriculture

    137
    Egil Lindhart Bauer and Mari Arentz Østmo
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    9. The Production Area

    157
    Mari Arentz Østmo
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    10. Two Iron Age Boathouses

    183
    Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    11. A Late Iron Age Palisade Facing the Karmsund Strait

    209
    Mari Arentz Østmo
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    12. Grave Monuments at Avaldsnes

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    Mari Arentz Østmo and Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    13. Political and Ritual Aspects of Cooking Pits

    253
    Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    14. The High Medieval Royal Manor

    277
    Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    15. The Post-Medieval Rectory

    309
    Egil Lindhart Bauer
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  • Section C Scientific Analyses 2011–12
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    16. Geophysical Surveys

    327
    Arne Anderson Stamnes and Egil Lindhart Bauer
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    17. Microstratigraphy (Soil Micromorphology and Microchemistry, Soil Chemistry, and Magnetic Susceptibility)

    379
    Richard I. Macphail and Johan Linderholm
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    18. Geochemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence

    421
    Rebecca J. S. Cannell, Paul N. Cheetham and Kate Welham
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    19 Biological Remains

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    Rachel Ballantyne, Stella Macheridis, Emma Lightfoot and Alice Williams
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  • Section D Specialist Studies
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    20. Artefacts from the 2011–12 Excavations

    513
    Mari Arentz Østmo
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    21. Migration Period Pottery from Avaldsnes: A Study of Shards from Bucket-shaped Pots

    527
    Elna Siv Kristoffersen and Åsa Dahlin Hauken
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    22. The Flaghaug Burials

    551
    Frans-Arne H. Stylegar and Håkon Reiersen
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    23. The Raised Stones

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    Dagfinn Skre
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    24. Avaldsnes, Kormt and Rogaland. A Toponymy and Landscape Survey

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    Stefan Brink
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    25. Depositional Traditions in Iron Age Kormt

    687
    Torun Zachrisson
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    26. Emerging Kingship in the 8th Century? New Datings of three Courtyard Sites in Rogaland

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    Frode Iversen
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  • Section E Avaldsnes: a Sea-Kings’ Manor
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    27. Aristocratic Presence along the Karmsund Strait 2000 BC–AD 1368

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    Dagfinn Skre
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    28. The Warrior Manor

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    Dagfinn Skre
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    29. Sea Kings on the Norðvegr

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    Dagfinn Skre
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  • References Appendices
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    References

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    Appendix I: The ARM Project Council, Advisory Group, Staff, and Authors

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    Appendix II: Radiocarbon dates

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eBook published on:
December 4, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110421088
Hardcover published on:
December 4, 2017
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110425789
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
897
Coloured Illustrations:
120
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421088
eBook ISBN: 9783110421088
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110425789
Keywords for this book
Viking Age; high-status settlement; early kingship
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Scholars, institutes, libraries, museums (Nordic history, Viking Age).
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