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- Title
Avaldsnes in Südwestnorwegen – ein Fundplatz von europäischem Rang in einer archäologischen Langzeitperspektive.
- Authors
Grimm, Oliver
- Abstract
Avaldsnes lies on the Karmøy island at a narrow passage of the south-west Norwegian shipping routes. This location is what made Avaldsnes a place of great strategic importance from early on. The article first describes some of the most important archaeological finds in Avaldsnes: numerous large-scale burial mounds with a diameter of up to 50 m, richly equipped graves from the Bronze, Late Empire, Merovingian, and Viking ages, written evidence of a kingdom at the transition to the Scandinavian Middle Ages, and a harbour with connections to the Hanseatic League. Recent research assumes, not without reason, the existence of a south-west Norwegian – possibly already Merovingian – kingdom with its throne in Avaldsnes. As the article continues, it takes an increasingly international perspective, including the discussion of ceremonial graves, the seats of kingdoms, and central places in Central and North European research. Avaldsnes proves itself to be a place that is unique in Norway and in some ways also in Northern Europe and lends itself well to consideration even against the background of Central European sites and research.
- Subjects
NORWAY; ANTIQUITIES; ARCHAEOLOGICAL archives; MOUNDS (Archaeology); INTERMENT; BRONZE Age; MEROVINGIANS; VIKING antiquities; HANSEATIC League
- Publication
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 2009, Vol 84, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
0079-4848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/PZ.2009.005