Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages
This paper sets out to trace the life history of a horse skull found in a bog in Scania in the year 1900. A parallel is drawn between the find of the horse and the famous painting, "Midwinter Sacrifice" by Carl Larsson. The story of the horse has opened up a discussion on how material cul...
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Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet
2006-12-01
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This paper sets out to trace the life history of a horse skull found in a bog in Scania in the year 1900. A parallel is drawn between the find of the horse and the famous painting, "Midwinter Sacrifice" by Carl Larsson. The story of the horse has opened up a discussion on how material culture is created and recreated in time and space, resulting in completely new communicative fields. The manifestation of the past and the reuse of Stone Age places and artefacts are brought into focus when the author discusses the location where the horse skull was originally found.
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa665299163e4f1292ad8ab1b7d18c032023-03-24T02:26:23ZengSvenska Arkeologiska SamfundetCurrent Swedish Archaeology1102-73552002-39012006-12-0114110.37718/CSA.2006.10Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle AgesEva Stensköld0Department of Archaeolog, Stockholm University This paper sets out to trace the life history of a horse skull found in a bog in Scania in the year 1900. A parallel is drawn between the find of the horse and the famous painting, "Midwinter Sacrifice" by Carl Larsson. The story of the horse has opened up a discussion on how material culture is created and recreated in time and space, resulting in completely new communicative fields. The manifestation of the past and the reuse of Stone Age places and artefacts are brought into focus when the author discusses the location where the horse skull was originally found. https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/721Neolithicmaterial cultureritualremembrancememoryemporality |
| spellingShingle | Eva Stensköld Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages Current Swedish Archaeology Neolithic material culture ritual remembrance memory emporality |
| title | Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages |
| title_full | Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages |
| title_fullStr | Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages |
| title_short | Flying Daggers, Horse Whisperers and a Midwinter Sacrifice: Creating the Past during the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages |
| title_sort | flying daggers horse whisperers and a midwinter sacrifice creating the past during the viking age and early middle ages |
| topic | Neolithic material culture ritual remembrance memory emporality |
| url | https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/721 |
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