Logo: to the web site of Uppsala University

uu.sePublications from Uppsala University
Change search
Link to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Herschend, Frands, Professor
Alternative names
Publications (10 of 29) Show all publications
Herschend, F. (2022). The pre-Carolingian Iron Age in South Scandinavia: Social Stratification and Narrative (150ed.). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The pre-Carolingian Iron Age in South Scandinavia: Social Stratification and Narrative
2022 (English)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2022. p. 556 Edition: 150
Series
Occasional papers in archaeology, ISSN 1100-6358 ; 77
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-468780 (URN)
Available from: 2022-03-01 Created: 2022-03-01 Last updated: 2022-04-07Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2022). The pre-Carolingian Iron Agein South Scandinavia: Social Stratification and Narrative (150ed.). Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The pre-Carolingian Iron Agein South Scandinavia: Social Stratification and Narrative
2022 (English)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2022. p. 556 Edition: 150
Series
Occasional papers in archaeology, ISSN 1100-6358 ; 76
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-466240 (URN)978-91-506-2923-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-03-07 Created: 2022-03-07 Last updated: 2022-10-24Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2021). Vad är det Háv hänger på i Hávamál?. Fornvännen, 116(4), 281-295
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vad är det Háv hänger på i Hávamál?
2021 (Swedish)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 116, no 4, p. 281-295Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Based on an introductory account of the shortcomings of a purely archaeological endeavour to understand the cultural history of the 1(st) millennium ce, this case study begins with an interpretation of the Old Norse word meior. This is followed up by a short comparative analysis of the function of the oe words beam and rod in the Dream of the Rood. Thus, having been inspired by Old Norse and Old English texts, the next step is an analysis of two archaeological excavations in which several constructions seem to qualify as a meior in the everyday sense of the word. Essentially, the word means 'drying rack' and as a construction it consists of two vertical poles with crutches, which support a horizontal rod that joins them together. On this rod more or less anything may hang - even Hav during his rite of passage merging with Ooinn.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets AkademienKungl. Vitterhetsakademin, 2021
Keywords
Havamal, Old Norse meior, post pairs, drying rack, hanging
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-483762 (URN)000840558700002 ()
Available from: 2022-09-02 Created: 2022-09-02 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2020). From IrilaR to Erl – identity and career 5th to 9thcentury CE. Collegium Medievale, 33, 235-280
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From IrilaR to Erl – identity and career 5th to 9thcentury CE
2020 (English)In: Collegium Medievale, ISSN 0801-9282, E-ISSN 2387-6700, Vol. 33, p. 235-280Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2020
National Category
Humanities and the Arts History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431605 (URN)
Available from: 2021-01-15 Created: 2021-01-15 Last updated: 2021-01-25Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2020). Från ord till poetisk handling: Skandinavisk skrivkunnighet före 536 (150ed.). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Från ord till poetisk handling: Skandinavisk skrivkunnighet före 536
2020 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Denna bok är en bakgrundsanalys av de runinskrifter som huvudsakligen skrevs innan klimatkrisen 536 - 550 efter vår tideräkning Det är inte lätt att sammanfatta den yngre järnåldern i Sydskandinavien. Av och till är det omöjligt om man inte först underbygger en del av den tidens kulturfenomen bättre än man kan i en sammanfattning. De äldsta nordiska runinskrifterna som social- och kulturhistoriska fenomen är ett sådant fält. Om texterna inte tolkas i termer av kulturgeografi, socialhistoria och litteratur, så platser de inte i en syntes av den yngre järnålderns sydskandinaviska samhälle. Samtidigt är det orimligt att man inte har en ungefärlig uppfattning om skrivkunnighetens plats i ett samhälle, om skrivkunnighet bevisligen finns.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2020. p. 150 Edition: 150
Series
Occasional papers in archaeology, ISSN 1100-6358 ; 70
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-404363 (URN)978-91-506-2809-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-02-24 Created: 2020-02-24 Last updated: 2020-05-11Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2020). Socially significant Viking-Age housing. In: H. L. Aannestad, U. Pedersen, M. Moen, E. Naumann & H. Lund Berg (Ed.), Vikings Across Boundaries: Viking Age transformations vol. II (pp. 212-235). London & New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Socially significant Viking-Age housing
2020 (English)In: Vikings Across Boundaries: Viking Age transformations vol. II / [ed] H. L. Aannestad, U. Pedersen, M. Moen, E. Naumann & H. Lund Berg, London & New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 212-235Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London & New York: Routledge, 2020
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431526 (URN)978-0-367-36452-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-01-14 Created: 2021-01-14 Last updated: 2021-09-23Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2018). 14C-dateringar som kronologiskt ramverk. In: Ann Lindkvist och Emilie Svenman (Ed.), 3000 år under Fullerö huvudgata: boplats, lertäkt och festplats (pp. 137-148). Uppsala: Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>14C-dateringar som kronologiskt ramverk
2018 (Swedish)In: 3000 år under Fullerö huvudgata: boplats, lertäkt och festplats / [ed] Ann Lindkvist och Emilie Svenman, Uppsala: Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis , 2018, p. 137-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis, 2018
Series
SAU rapport, ISSN ISSN 1652-9448 ; 2018:7
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-356144 (URN)
Available from: 2018-07-16 Created: 2018-07-16 Last updated: 2018-08-01Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2018). First millennium architects, university scholars, contract archaeologists and heritage management. Fornvännen, 113(1), 34-49
Open this publication in new window or tab >>First millennium architects, university scholars, contract archaeologists and heritage management
2018 (English)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 113, no 1, p. 34-49Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper aims mainly to analyse the relationship between university scholars and heritage conservation by means of two examples: Iron Age house types, which is history, and the analysis of planned Iron Age architecture, which has not yet benefited sufficiently from contract archaeology. I recognise the duty of university scholars to develop research topics that may be useful to contract archaeology as well as to heritage conservation and university archaeology. As a topic of research, I suggest a cognitively based understanding of Iron Age house planning and construction. I suggest that an important understanding of cognitive history can be related to a shift in Iron Age building principles: in the Early Iron Age form follows function, but in the Late Iron Age construction principles give form.

National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355477 (URN)000431744000004 ()
Available from: 2018-06-29 Created: 2018-06-29 Last updated: 2021-02-10Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2018). How Norse is Skírnismál?: A comparative case study. Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History (JAAH) (23)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>How Norse is Skírnismál?: A comparative case study
2018 (English)In: Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History (JAAH), E-ISSN 2001-1199, no 23Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Venantius Fortunatus was a Latin, Ravenna educated, semi-political rhetorical poet active in Merovingian Francia in the late 6th century. Arriving in Austrasia from the Alps in the spring of 566, he wrote three poems, not least an epithalamium publicly performed at the wedding of Sigibert and Brunhild. This literary genre, its structure and the three addressees of his poems can be seen as a surprisingly detailed template for the Norse poem Skírnismál. The value of Fortunatus’ poetry rests with his ability to amalgamate Germanic, Christian and Latin Roman culture in a period of transition from a pagan to a Christian society. Since these periods of transition are reoccurring, it is possible to see an education in the 10th–11th century as the background for the Norse Skírnismál author, who probably must have read Fortunatus in order to compose his Norse wedding entertainment. Skírnismál is thus neither a purely Norse nor a purely oral composition.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2018
Keywords
Venantius Fortunatus; Skírnismál; epithalamium; wedding entertainment; dialogical play; Norse-Christian acculturation
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-357577 (URN)
Available from: 2018-08-31 Created: 2018-08-31 Last updated: 2018-09-03Bibliographically approved
Herschend, F. (2018). Järnåldersarkitekter, universitetsforskare, uppdragsarkeologer och kulturmiljövården. Fornvännen, 113(1), 34-49
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Järnåldersarkitekter, universitetsforskare, uppdragsarkeologer och kulturmiljövården
2018 (Swedish)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 113, no 1, p. 34-49Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper aims mainly to analyse the relationship between university scholars and heritage conservation by means of two examples: Iron Age house types, which is history, and the analysis of planned Iron Age architecture, which has not yet benefited sufficiently from contract archaeology. I recognise the duty of university scholars to develop research topics that may be useful to contract archaeology aswell as to heritage conservation and university archaeology. As a topic of research, I suggest a cognitively based understanding of Iron Age house planning and construction. I suggest that an important understanding of cognitive history can be related to a shift in Iron Age building principles: in the Early Iron Age form follows function, but in the Late Iron Age construction principles give form.

National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352390 (URN)
Available from: 2018-06-04 Created: 2018-06-04 Last updated: 2021-02-10Bibliographically approved
Organisations

Search in DiVA

Show all publications