This study presents the first comprehensive mapping of a type of assembly site in South Norway for competitions, especially horse fights and races, called a skeid (ON skeið, English ‘race, run’). The number of place names indicates that these gatherings must have been of vital importance in prehistoric society. Skeids were in use in the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century in certain parts of the country. This study compares their locations to those of medieval markets, and it discusses their socioeconomic significance and differences in terms of the geological conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry between sites. Skeids and markets do not seem to be co-located, but evidence indicates that the sites were multifunctional, hosting ...
In continental and north-western Europe armed cavalry – aided by the introduction of the stirrup – w...
"In 2015, the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo carried out excavations in Løten ...
In the High Middle Ages Kinsarvik in Hardanger was ideally situated as a hub, where iron and other o...
This study presents the first comprehensive mapping of a type of assembly site in South Norway for c...
The period from the late Viking Age to the High Middle Ages, c. 950–1350, was an era of economic exp...
This study demonstrates how routes over mountain plateaus and passes connected farms, hamlets and re...
AS HUBS IN STABLE ECONOMIC NETWORKS, mountain1 marketplaces are seen as integral to the increase and...
Along the western coast of Norway, especially in the North, there is a special type of site usually ...
This thesis primarily discusses the development of late Iron Age Saami settlement patterns in greate...
What specifically characterizes an equestrian grave and what equipment do the equestrian graves from...
The Viking Age soapstone vessel production and trade in Norway was a spatially allocated enterprise ...
Horse equipment and horses are known from numerous burials, settlement deposits and other archaeolog...
This article discusses the centralisation of religious ritual practices in Scandinavia in the second...
This article presents and discusses the range of prehistoric archaeological material derived from ex...
The change of a medieval town - the main results from a ten-year excavation campaign in Horsens Unti...
In continental and north-western Europe armed cavalry – aided by the introduction of the stirrup – w...
"In 2015, the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo carried out excavations in Løten ...
In the High Middle Ages Kinsarvik in Hardanger was ideally situated as a hub, where iron and other o...
This study presents the first comprehensive mapping of a type of assembly site in South Norway for c...
The period from the late Viking Age to the High Middle Ages, c. 950–1350, was an era of economic exp...
This study demonstrates how routes over mountain plateaus and passes connected farms, hamlets and re...
AS HUBS IN STABLE ECONOMIC NETWORKS, mountain1 marketplaces are seen as integral to the increase and...
Along the western coast of Norway, especially in the North, there is a special type of site usually ...
This thesis primarily discusses the development of late Iron Age Saami settlement patterns in greate...
What specifically characterizes an equestrian grave and what equipment do the equestrian graves from...
The Viking Age soapstone vessel production and trade in Norway was a spatially allocated enterprise ...
Horse equipment and horses are known from numerous burials, settlement deposits and other archaeolog...
This article discusses the centralisation of religious ritual practices in Scandinavia in the second...
This article presents and discusses the range of prehistoric archaeological material derived from ex...
The change of a medieval town - the main results from a ten-year excavation campaign in Horsens Unti...
In continental and north-western Europe armed cavalry – aided by the introduction of the stirrup – w...
"In 2015, the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo carried out excavations in Løten ...
In the High Middle Ages Kinsarvik in Hardanger was ideally situated as a hub, where iron and other o...