Avaldsnes - A Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia / / ed. by Dagfinn Skre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ballantyne, Rachel,; Bauer, Egil Lindhart,; Brink, Stefan,; Cannell, Rebecca J. S.,; Cheetham, Paul N.,; Hauken, Åsa Dahlin,; Iversen, Frode,; Kristoffersen, Elna Siv,; Lightfoot, Emma,; Linderholm, Johan,; Macheridis, Stella,; Macphail, Richard I.,; Mundal, Else,; Reiersen, Håkon,; Skre, Dagfinn,; Stamnes, Arne Anderson,; Stylegar, Frans-Arne H.,; Welham, Kate,; Williams, Alice,; Zachrisson, Torun,; Østmo, Mari Arentz,
• HerausgeberIn: Skre, Dagfinn,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 104
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 897 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of content -- Abbreviations -- Section A. Scholarly Background -- 1. Rethinking Avaldsnes and Kormt -- 2. Exploring Avaldsnes 1540–2005 -- 3. Avaldsnes and Kormt in Old Norse Written Sources -- 4. The Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project’s Research Plan and Excavation Objectives -- Section B. Excavation Results 2011–12 -- 5 Excavations and Surveys 1985-2012 -- 6. Site Periods and Key Contexts -- 7. The Prehistoric Settlement and Buildings -- 8 Prehistoric Agriculture -- 9. The Production Area -- 10. Two Iron Age Boathouses -- 11. A Late Iron Age Palisade Facing the Karmsund Strait -- 12. Grave Monuments at Avaldsnes -- 13. Political and Ritual Aspects of Cooking Pits -- 14. The High Medieval Royal Manor -- 15. The Post-Medieval Rectory -- Section C Scientific Analyses 2011–12 -- 16. Geophysical Surveys -- 17. Microstratigraphy (Soil Micromorphology and Microchemistry, Soil Chemistry, and Magnetic Susceptibility) -- 18. Geochemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence -- 19 Biological Remains -- Section D Specialist Studies -- 20. Artefacts from the 2011–12 Excavations -- 21. Migration Period Pottery from Avaldsnes: A Study of Shards from Bucket-shaped Pots -- 22. The Flaghaug Burials -- 23. The Raised Stones -- 24. Avaldsnes, Kormt and Rogaland. A Toponymy and Landscape Survey -- 25. Depositional Traditions in Iron Age Kormt -- 26. Emerging Kingship in the 8th Century? New Datings of three Courtyard Sites in Rogaland -- Section E Avaldsnes: a Sea-Kings’ Manor -- 27. Aristocratic Presence along the Karmsund Strait 2000 BC–AD 1368 -- 28. The Warrior Manor -- 29. Sea Kings on the Norðvegr -- References Appendices -- References -- Appendix I: The ARM Project Council, Advisory Group, Staff, and Authors -- Appendix II: Radiocarbon dates