Stewards and Stakeholders of the Archaeological Record
Atle Omland
Broschiertes Buch

Stewards and Stakeholders of the Archaeological Record

Archaeologists, Folklore and Burial Mounds in Agder, Southern Norway

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The main objective of this book is to discuss parts of the later life histories of burial mounds by studying local interests in them through folklore, but also disturbances and reuses of them. To this end, this study discusses folklore about burial mounds in the two Norwegian southern counties of Agder. These mounds were constructed as the burial places for the dead, in Norway built with a changing frequency during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (c.1800 BC-AD 1050). These narratives, told by those people who have lived in their vicinity, document a local interest in the monuments, but also qu...