{"title":"The origins of Odense – new aspects of early urbanisation in southern Scandinavia","authors":"M. Runge, M. Henriksen","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2018.1475891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1475891","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article presents an updated study of the centuries prior to Odense’s traditional ‘birth certificate’ of AD 988, resulting in a new model for the urbanisation of Odense. The conclusion reached is that there was activity of a permanent and possibly urban character in Odense from the end of the late eighth century until the late tenth century. The town’s development can be followed through three phases. Phases 1 and 2 cover the periods AD 700–900 and AD 900–100, respectively, while phase 3 covers the period AD 1000-1101. During phases 1 and 2, the proto-town develops through bottom-up processes, such as network, crafts and possibly trade. After AD 1000, Odense develops into a town proper, under royal influence. The model from Odense provides the background for a fresh view of urbanisation in southern Scandinavia in general. A three-phase model is proposed. Phase 0 constitutes the emporia of the eighth–ninth century, which perhaps primarily is satellites in a trading network controlled from the south. Phase 1 takes the form of locally initiated and based incipient urbanisation extending from the end of the eighth century until the tenth century. Phase 2 comprises the royally established towns from around AD 1000 onwards.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126078489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From a port for traders to a town of merchants: exploring the topography, activities and dynamics of early medieval Copenhagen","authors":"Hanna Dahlström, B. Poulsen, J. Olsen","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2018.1464619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1464619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Copenhagen’s earliest history has long been shrouded in uncertainties. This is mainly due to insufficient source material. Basic questions – how old is the town, how did it originate, and where was the oldest settlement situated? – are still under discussion, as are questions regarding specific features of the early medieval town. Was Absalon’s twelfth-century castle preceded by an earlier one? What does a centrally placed, early medieval horseshoe-shaped enclosure surrounded by a massive ditch represent? Using archaeological results from recent major excavations, combined with Bayesian modelling of new 14C dates from the two early cemeteries of Sankt Clemens and Rådhuspladsen, older archaeological information and the medieval written sources on Copenhagen are revisited to form a new interpretation of the early development of the town. Three phases of topographical development from the eleventh to the early thirteenth century are recognised. The changes tell of a dynamic first two hundred years of the town’s history and of its changing role in Danish society. The article explores the people, activities and networks that lie behind the outstanding development from the small early settlement of the eleventh century to the flourishing merchant town of the thirteenth century.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"22 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125954504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to define borders between private and common land in Norway?","authors":"L. Hansen","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses upon the delimitation between the separate farm units and the collectively exploited common lands (‘allmenninger’) in Southeastern Norway during Medieval times. In these commons, various kind of resources – like pastures, woodland and fisheries – were accessible for exploitation by a majority of farmers in the settlement community, but subject to more restrictions than the resources of the ‘outlying fields’ pertaining to the separate farms. While the majority of the farmers within the community preferred that the extension of the commons should be preserved for their convenience, two groups of farmers might appropriate parts of the original common land area: those cultivating farms bordering to the common area, and who might extend their separate farmland successively into the previous commonly held area, and landless people who wanted to establish new farms (‘clearances’) within the common land. The legislation was also double and ambiguous. On the one hand it stated that ‘the commons [should] stay in the way they have been before’. On the other hand it was declared that a farmer establishing a farm as a new clearing in the commons should become the King’s tenant and thus come under his protection. The processes behind the institutionalizing of boundaries between the commons and private farm properties are highlighted through an analysis of settlement development in two municipalities/parishes in Southeastern Norway.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125101146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carolingian Pfalzen and law","authors":"Egon Wamers","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1407177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1407177","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The palaces (Pfalzen) of the Carolingian period, which had developed from the Frankish royal manors, were a completely new form of building in the eastern Empire. Their architecture reflected central functions of the new kingship. In spite of all the variations in those palaces that have been the subject of archaeological research (for example Aachen, Paderborn, Ingelheim, Frankfurt), a constant triad of worldly representation, religious cult practice and economical power is always discernible. This article considers the question of the juridical character of the palaces: the extent to which they were the expression of the structures of power and law within the Carolingian Empire, in other words served a function within the court offices and the manorial system: the extent to which they functioned as the seats of law-making and judgement; and the extent to which their architectural iconography and physical symbolism reflects acts and forms of a juridical practice that had its roots in the roman law. (Translation: David Wigg-Wolf).","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130888935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Norwegian bureaucratic aristocracy and their manor houses in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries","authors":"J. O. Sunde, Guttorm Rogdaberg","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1338640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1338640","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Except royal castles in major Norwegian towns, only two stone castles were built by Norwegian aristocrats in the High Middle Ages. All other aristocrats lived in wooden buildings. Of these only Lagmannsstova at Aga in Hardanger remains. It has been attributed to the appeal court judge Sigurd Brynjulffson, though to have been constructed at the end of the thirteenth century as one unique building. However, investigations show that the remaining hall made up less than one-third of a building complex containing two halls, a chapel, kitchen and living quarters, all built at the first half of the thirteenth century. Investigations also show that the powers of the appeal court judge were drastically expanded at the same time, not at least by the Norwegian Code of the realm of 1274. By relating judicial powers and manor house, we get a quite different image of the Norwegian aristocracy and bureaucracy in the High Middle Ages than the popular one of an egalitarian peasant society.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126715759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The background of the odal rights: an archaeological discussion","authors":"T. Zachrisson","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1371440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1371440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The age and origin of the odal rights known from medieval times in Sweden and Norway are debated. Archaeologists tend to view them as old and a part of the pre-Christian society, whereas historians and legal historians view them as established after Christianity was introduced, mirroring canonical laws. In Viking Age runic inscriptions from the eleventh century in the lake Mälaren valley in Sweden, from late tenth to eleventh century in south-western Norway, the term odal, inherited family land occurs together with other expressions concerning landed property. Furthermore, two runestones in Småland and Hälsingland in Sweden, c. 650 km apart, each enumerate five earlier ancestors in a male lineage, the sponsor himself being the sixth generation. As these runic inscriptions were made in different parts of Scandinavia during the late tenth and eleventh century, this indicates that the term and concept odal was widespread already before the canonic laws of the early medieval period were introduced, and quite possibly belongs to an older inheritance structure. The aim of this article is a renewed discussion focussing on the runological sources where the term and concept odal can be found in the Viking Age Scandinavian society (c. 750–1050 CE), but also early medieval written sources. Thereafter, archaeological sources from the Late Iron Age are addressed (c. 550–1050 CE).","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131822134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From tribute to taxpaying: the changes in the understanding of private property in Denmark circa 1000–1250","authors":"H. Vogt","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1323993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1323993","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The focus of the paper is about how the concept of property and the possession of land changed in Denmark from c. 1000 to 1250. Until the mid of the twelfth century, we are mostly depending of the archaeological material and the few narrative sources, and they give an impression of a system where various persons could have rights and claims to the same landed property – the farmer who cultivated it, the local lord who had a right to tribute, and his lord – the king. This system was challenged when the Church was established in the eleventh and twelfth century and started to get large donations. The Church claimed full property right the donated land, something that lead to conflicts, and one response was the introduction if written laws with firm rules about transfer of landed property and ownership. The introduction of firm rules did not mean that kinsmen stopped questioning donations or sales of land to ecclesiastical institutions in the thirteenth century, but rather that the conflicts were legalised","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129783963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late Iron Age longhouse chronology. A study aimed at constructing a formal house chronology for the Late Iron Age, based on selected localities in central and eastern Jutland","authors":"S. Laursen, M. Holst","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1293870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1293870","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents a formalised chronological study of the longhouses of the Late Iron Age. This is based on the correspondence analysis of data relating to house ground plans recorded at a number of Iron Age settlements in central and eastern Jutland, which, as a region, has the most comprehensive relevant data set, including many constructional details. The chronology constitutes a formalisation of the house-chronological considerations undertaken to date in reference to settlements in Jutland and results in a seriable sequence, the chronological significance of which is supported by stratigraphic observations. The study demonstrates that, in general, the investigated settlements follow the same chronological development and can therefore be correlated. Moreover, it shows that the placing of each individual house in the chronology is subject to some uncertainty, due to the relatively small number and long duration of the chronological features.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128621971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesper Hansen, H. Petersen, K. Frei, P. Courtaud, A. Tillier, A. Fischer, M. Allentoft
{"title":"The Maglemosian skeleton from Koelbjerg, Denmark revisited: identifying sex and provenance","authors":"Jesper Hansen, H. Petersen, K. Frei, P. Courtaud, A. Tillier, A. Fischer, M. Allentoft","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1381418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1381418","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Koelbjerg individual, dated c. 8500 cal BC, represents the earliest human skeletal remains described from Scandinavia. Based on ancient DNA, strontium isotope and statistical anthropological analyses the individual’s sex, haplogroup and geographical provenance are here analysed and discussed. In contrast to previous claims, our genetic and anthropological analyses show that this individual was a male. Additionally, the strontium isotope ratio of one of his first molars indicates that he most likely grew up locally.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127745768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporalising the house: exploring alternative perspectives on time and the archaeological record within Danish settlement archaeology","authors":"Anna Severine Beck","doi":"10.1080/21662282.2017.1400281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1400281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article calls for a renewed debate on the role played by time and temporality within Danish settlement archaeology. Recent theoretical debate has challenged the conventional way of thinking about time in archaeology by drawing attention to the multitemporal character of the archaeological record. In the article, the temporalisation of the archaeological record of the house is discussed based on a critical review of the archaeological process. The analysis shows how basic excavation and archiving practices favours a temporalisation of the house based on the chronological date and, at best, downplays other temporalities. The inherent temporalities of the archaeological record of the house, particularly the posthole, are discussed, and it is argued that the posthole should both be perceived as an object and a process in order to create space for alternative temporalities. Instead of seeing stratigraphy as a property of the posthole, the posthole should be seen as an assemblage made up of the events and materials that created the stratigraphy, a process which is directly related to the life history of the house. It is argued that a multitemporal perspective is a prerequisite for new and fruitful ways to understand the house as an archaeological and cultural phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":191998,"journal":{"name":"Danish Journal of Archaeology","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122589894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}