A great way of spreading the word of archaeological research! Great video
@KaptainViciorious
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great presentation of all of your research. Interesting analysis, especially the possible Roman coin influences!
@ladyliberty417
4 жыл бұрын
I love the subject of women in the Viking age!! Your research is important and real objects are so exciting to see. Thank you and good luck finding more❗️
@srensindbk5473
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 🙂
@Matt_The_Hugenot
4 жыл бұрын
The evidence for women playing a role in combat, either as full members of viking bands or as defenders of the home, keeps accumulating yet there appears to be a large resistance to accepting it instead finding ways to explain each piece away. We project our ideas onto the past too readily, often we're accepting the prejudices of nineteenth and twentieth century scholars rather than looking at the actual finds.
@srensindbk5473
4 жыл бұрын
I think we are fine with the idea of women taking a role in ombat, but this is unlikely to be what this figure is showing. The grand dress, the jewellery, the antique helmet, the strange pose with the sword behind the Shield. Combat? I think not.
@LarsAgerbk
3 жыл бұрын
no human in history has ever had an 'idea' that women weren't warriors and no human will ever get such an idea ever. What all adult human being knows is that men and women are different. Men have far more testosterone in their blood than women do and therefore they will always dominate women when facing them in combat. Not just physically, mentally too. thetruedefender.com/transgender-fighter-who-broke-womans-skull-deemed-the-bravest-athlete-in-history/
@niekvaneck6392
4 жыл бұрын
First off I wish to thank you for your highly informative and accessible videos, they are great. Secondly I would be interested to hear your opinion regarding the continuation, or discontinuation, (or awareness) of iconographical significance and symbology of Roman material in Viking age Scandinavia. I have seen some interesting suggestions in relation to similar topics (Fugelsang 2007; Friedrich 2016) and considering that you mention the matter briefly in this video I dared myself to ask you. Thank you again for your effort, I enjoy following your work.
@srensindbk5473
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. That's a really good and also difficult question. I believe we can trace at least three ways in which Roman iconography and symbols had an impact in Viking-age Scandinavia: a direct tradition from the art which emerged in the Migration Periode, in the context of late Roman - Germanic interactions; a tradition of art, symbolism and mythology kept alive in the Frankish world, and brought on from Frankish examples (and artisans?); and perhaps sometimes a direct inspiration from handed-down objects like coins or statuettes, brought as scrap metal. The balance between the three is mostly very difficult to judge, though.
@niekvaneck6392
4 жыл бұрын
@@srensindbk5473 Thank you for your answer, that division into three different approaches seems like a useful point of departure for further investigation. Finding the balance might be a challenge, but I think that the video above illustrates the broad potential for novel methods to guide us further into this subject. Thank you again and I look forward to the next video.
@jorgelazodelavega8409
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for uploading this. Now more than ever it is important not to jump to conclusions whenever evidence like this turns up.
@TheLestat422
4 жыл бұрын
The possible influence of roman coins is really interesting and make me think about Dumézil's "Tarpeia" and might raise the question of a very hypothetical and indirect influence on the mythological being Gullveig maybe.
@anotherelvis
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Can we estimate how many different shapes of pendants were produced in the workshop? Can we estimate how many workshops were present in Ribe at the time?
@srensindbk5473
4 жыл бұрын
No precise estimate yet. More than a dozen different kinds of ornaments were made in the workshops we excavated, some from several different models. Casting debris is found in nearly every point excavated in Viking Age Ribe. Not all contemporary, but there must have been a number of workshops in operation at any one time.
@stepheng9607
4 жыл бұрын
Takk
@nowthenzen
2 жыл бұрын
It's possible the figurine depicts someone in a non-binary gender role. Native Americans reference people with "Two Spirits" According to the Indian Health Service (IHS), "Traditionally, Native American two-spirit people were male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who combined activities of both men and women with traits unique to their status as two-spirit people. In most tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a distinct, alternative gender status."
@Darkurge666
4 жыл бұрын
"Danish activity in England" like, viking invasion? 😂
@srensindbk5473
4 жыл бұрын
Sure! But there was lots of different activity besides. It could be Danish traders coming to towns, or migrants looking to make a living.
@Matt_The_Hugenot
4 жыл бұрын
There's so much more to Scandinavian activity in Britain than invading warriors. Given that these figurines are associated with female burials then either these are brought by women fighters or they are evidence of Danish family units in Eastern England.
@nowthenzen
2 жыл бұрын
It's been suggested the reason the Vikings started invading England is bc trade dried up
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