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Subject: Viking News
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:39:00 UT
From: Dan Carlsson <info at arkeodok.com>
To: VikingHistory at arkeodok.com

Dear Viking friends,
I have many times been asked about how different artefacts were carried in the
Viking Age, for instance the animal head brooch, if the nose was up or down. It
is actually not that easy to tell the details about this, even if we have a
rather well preserved skeleton in front of us. For your amusement and for hoping
to get a bit of understanding of the problems to understand all the details that
you many times want to know, I have put up a high-resolution photo of a female
grave from Fröjel. Please have a look at: http://www.arkeodok.com/femalegrave.html

As known, I'm working mainly on the island of Gotland - a tremendous site when
it comes to Viking Age. But we are a bit short handed on the island, while we
have none written information of the island in the Viking Age. That is in
contrary to Iceland, this fascinating country with its Sagas. There has for long
time been a discussion of how much you can trust what the Sagas are telling, and
a way to get a more reliable point of view, you can compare the stories from the
Sagas with the results of archaeological field investigations, and you might
come up with rather fascinating informations. This is exactly what Professor
Jesse Byock and his team have been doing in Iceland since 1995. I have got a
small report from Professor Jesse Byock to put on the web for you all to read.
Read it, and think about how different it can be in our research world
(http://www.arkeodok.com/Reports.html).

Dan Carlsson