Cultural Interaction Between East and West: Archaeology, Artefacts and Human Contacts in Northern Europe

Tabula Gratulatoria 5
Ingmar Jansson\'s Printed Works 8
Preface 11
Ingmar Jansson - a ‘Ture Arne’ of Our Time. An Interview About his Archaeological Life / Marie Svedin 14
Archaeology in the Shadow of Political Changes / Marie Svedin 24
POETRY, RUNES AND WRITTEN SOURCES
An Emendated Long Line on Rune-stone Sö 130 / Frands Herschend 44
The Rune-stone Fragment from Finsta in Skederid: The Oldest Rune-stone with Long-branch Runes in the Malar Valley? / Magnus Källström 50
Memory and Material Culture - the Rune-stone at Rök / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh 56
An Interesting Find from Staraja Ladoga: A Representation of Freyja? / Alexei V. Plochov 61
Viking Women in Rus\': Wives, Slaves or \'Valkyries\'? / Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin 66
The Meaning and Significance of \'tilgjöf\' in the Marriage Conditions of Ingegerd, Olof Skötkonung\'s Daughter / Vadim Kazanskij 70
The Baltic Policy of Jaroslav the Wise / Elena Melnikova 73
Sitr Gardum / Rune Palm 78
RELIGION AND ARTEFACTS
The Ornamental Echo of Oðinn’s Cult / Michael Neifi 82
Some Viking-age Amulets - the Birka Evidence / Anne-Sofie Gräslund 90
Scandinavian God \'idol\' from Gnézdovo / Veronika Murasheva 97
Some Archaeological Aspects of Christian and Pagan Symbols in the Period of Christianisation / Inga Hägg 101
The Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Contacts between Estonia and Scandinavia / Valter Lang & Aivar Kriiska 107
Some Contested Questions of Historical Topography in Medieval Kiev / Mychajlo Sahajdak 113
Buried Bodies and Scattered Bones: Child Graves and Secondary Burials at Alvastra Abbey / Elisabet Regner 120
SOCIAL INTERPRETATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ARTEFACTS
The Greatest Impersonations. Or, Some Aspects on the Origin of Animal Style in the Eastern Baltic Region during the Migration Period / Audroné Bliujieně 128
The Seated God. The Enthroned Figure with a Heap in his Lap / Torun Zachrisson 134
Åshusby - an Iron Age Central Place. A Review in the Light of Past Excavations and Present Research / Daniel Langhammer 140
Keepers of the Past - Hoarding in Old Grave Monuments in Viking-age Southern Scandinavia / Cecilia von Heijne 148
The Rural Vikings and the Viking Helgö / Fedir Androshchuk 153
Some Oriental Finds from the Port of Trade at Janów Pomorski (Truso), Poland / Mateusz Bogucki 164
Dirham Imitations as Pendants in Latvia / Tatjana Berga 171
Viking Age Gold from Old Rus’ / Natalia Eniosova 175
‘Our Man in Pskov’ – Birka’s Baltic Connection in the 9th and 10th Centuries. Pottery as a Source for Tracing Cultural Interaction / Björn Ambrosiani & Mathias Bäck 180
‘Khazarian Souvenirs’ / Tamara Pushkina 185
Oval Brooches in Southern Rus’ and their Social Interpretation / Vladimir Zocenko & Olga Vergun 188
Liv Tortoise Brooches in the Lower Daugava area in the 10th-13th Centuries / Roberts Spirģis 197
Uppland-Gotland-Novgorod. Russian-Swedish Relations in the late Viking Age on the Basis of Studies of Belt Mountings / Kirill A. Mikhailov 205
General Debasement during the Reign of Svend Estridsen? The Coinage of Lund c. 1035-1050 and Some Metal Analyses / Frederic Elfver 212
MILLENNIUM OF CULTURAL CONTACTS
One Sea, Many Landscapes and Human Interaction / Božena Werbart 218
Keldudalur - A Sacred Place in Pagan and Christian times in Iceland / Guðný Zoega & Ragnheiður Traustadóttir 225
Curious Birds - Two Helmet (?) Mounts with a Christian Motif from Birka’s Garrison / Lena Holmquist Olausson & Slavica Petrovski 231
Some Aspects of Studies of Ringed Pins from Rus’ / Evgenij N. Nosov & Natal’ja V. Chvoščinskaja 239
Viking-age Seaxes in Uppland and Västmanland: Craft Production and Eastern Connections / Niklas Stjerna 243
North European Objects of the 9th-11th Centuries from the Upper Rreaches of the Western Dvina and the \'Route from the Varangians to the Greeks\' / Ivan I. Eremeev 250
\'Cum grano salis\' - Salt and Prestige Late Viking Age and Early Medieval T-Shaped and Cylindrical Salt Containers / Sten Tesch 263
Does the CNVT REX SW Coin Legend Show That Cnut the Great Ruled at Sigtuna? / Kenneth Jonsson 272
English Connections in the Time of Knut the Great - Material from Viborg / Else Roesdahl 276
10th-12th Century Daugmale - the Earliest Urban Settlement along the Lower Daugava and Forerunner of Riga / Guntis Zemītis 279
The Poetics of Space - Viking Houses in Dublin / Christina Fredengren 285
From Feasting Freebooters to Fasting Friars? Continuity and Change in the Culture of Food during the Transition from Late Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period in Sweden / Sven Isaksson 294
\'For What More Terrifying Revelation Can There Be Than That It Is the present Moment?\' Anna Hed Jakobsson 299
What Was Served at the Koffsan Inn during the 18th Century? / Ulrica Söderlind 303
From New York to Moscow: Some Viking-age Brooches from Sweden / James Graham-Campbell 307
Fredrik Martin: A Pioneer in Archaeological Publication / Gustaf Trotzig 310
The Recognition of Viking Art / Sir David M. Wilson 312
Archaeology Around the Baltic Sea / Gert Magnusson 316
The Pagan Temple of Viätt. A Folkloristic Narrative in the Light of the History of Archaeology / Ulf Fransson 318
\'The Lapps Chew This Root a Lot\'. Milk Parsley (\'Peucedanum palustre\') in Sami Plant Knowledge / Ingvar Svanberg 328
Archaeological and Geophysical Surveying in the Czech Republic and Sweden / Vladimír Hašek, Jan Tomešek, Kjel Knutsson, Helena Victor & Helena Knutsson 331
Västerbjers Once Again / Jozef Saers 340
Tyresta and Landsort, Small Fishing and Seal Hunting Stations in Outer Archipelagos during the Mesolithic and the Viking Age / Mattias Pettersson & Roger Wikell 343
Time Frozen in Metal: A New Glance at an Old Exhibit / Vytautas Kazakevičius 350
On the Technology of Silvering Iron Ornaments: Inlay in I2th-I4th century Latvia / Dagnija Svarāne 352
On Chronology. Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands and Some Method-problems / Lena Thunmark-Nylén 358