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Title: Medieval Carpenters Axe
Creator: Kirsten Christiansen, Joan F. Davidson, Niels Knud Liebgott, Anne-Marie Lindgren eds. Archive or Repository: "Margrete I, Regent of the North. The Kalamar Union 600 years. " Collection or Fond: Essays and Catalogue. Coepnhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers and the National Museum Reference Number: page 322, # 108 Notes: Length 30.7cm, Width 19.5cm Large | Larger |
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Title: Map made by Hans Poulson Resen, 1605
Creator: Hans Poulson Resen Archive or Repository: Manuscript Department, Royal Library Copenhagen Notes: Anonymous map added to by Hans Resen completed in 1605 in preparation for a Danish expedition to Greenland. Texts in Latin mentioned 15th and 16th century explorations. At the bottom of the map is Nova Scotia with Cape Breton. North of there is the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Newfoundland is attached to the mainland. Northern Newfoundland is marked [[underline]]Promontorium Vinlandia bone forte Vinlandia pucr [[/]] (The promontory of Vinland the very good and beautiful). Large | Larger |
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Title: Catherwood's Drawing of Newport Tower, 1838
Creator: Frederick Catherwood Archive or Repository: Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen Collection or Fond: Manuscript Department Reference Number: NKS 1599-2 -7, no.1 Notes: This is the drawing sent by the Massachusetts Historical Society to Carl Christian Rafn in Copenhagen. The drawing makes the tower look much bigger and more carefully built than it actually is. Large | Larger |
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Title: Eastman's 1856 drawing of the Newport Tower
Creator: Captain Seth Eastman Notes: Henry R. Schoolcraft considered Catherwood's drawing misleading and commissioned Captain Seth Eastman to make a new, more correct representation. It was published as Plate XV (15) in Volume I of his monumental work "Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847". Large | Larger |
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Title: Map of the World as envisioned in the 11th century
Creator: Axel Anton Bjrnbo Archive or Repository: "Adam of Bremen's Nordensopfattelse," Aarbger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, ["Adam of Bremen's Concept of the North," Journal of Scandinavian Antiquities and History, Reference Number: volume 24: 120-224 Notes: The world as Adam of Bremen imagined it. Reconstruction by the Danish geographer A.A. Bjrnbo 1909. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bracteate DR BR 21, from Over-Hornbk, Denmark.
Creator: Erik Moltke Notes: The runes are from Old Futhark, but the artist has not had proper knowledge of runes and has given some of them the wrong shape. A bracteate is a Germanic copy of a Roman coin meant to be worn on a chain. Large | Larger |
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Title: Icelandic forest in 1965
Creator: B. Wallace Collection or Fond: Personal Collection Notes: About 25 % of Iceland was forested when the Norse arrived. The trees were primarily birch. A couple of hundred years later most of the trees had been cut. Iceland became almost treeless with forests no bigger than these until recently when an extensive reforesting program was begun. Large | Larger |
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Title: Helge & Anne Stine
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad at their home in Oslo. In 1960 the Norwegian writer and explorer Helge Ingstad searched the coasts of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula for evidence of the Norse. At L'Anse aux Meadows he was led to what the locals called the "old Indian camp" by George Decker, the descendant of the first settlers in the village. The place seemed so promising that Ingstad returned with a full-fledged archaeological expedition the next year. This expedition was led by his wife, Dr. Anne Stine Ingstad, a professional archaeologist. Large | Larger |
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Title: Reconstructed Mooring Pin
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Anthropology Section Reference Number: 9752 Notes: Reconstructed "mooring pin" in mooring hole stone from Lake Latoka, Minnesota moved to the Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota. Large | Larger |
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Title: Mooring hole, Ten Mile Lake
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Collection or Fond: Anthropology Section Reference Number: 9745 Notes: Mooring hole from Ten Mile Lake, Minnesota. It was this type of hole Pohl was looking for at Follins Pond. Large | Larger |
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Title: Blast Hole at Sinking Lake, Minnesota
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Collection or Fond: Anthropology Section Reference Number: 7256 Notes: This type of holes, which have been blasted, occur frequently in the vicinity of mooring holes. Large | Larger |
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Title: Model, A-B-C Complex
Creator: Thomas Lackey Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1853T Notes: Model of the A-B-C complex, facing northwest. The complex contains dwellings for three different social classes: a large hall for chieftain and his staff, a small house for some of his employees, and a small primitive hut, probably for slaves. Model by David Coldwell, on exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Large | Larger |
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Title: Sunburg Axe
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Collection or Fond: Anthropology section Reference Number: 9780 Notes: Axehead from Sunburg, Kandiyohi County, MN, thought to be associated with the Kensington stone inscription. Runestone Museum, Alexandria, MN Large | Larger |
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Title: C-14 Stump
Creator: G. Vandervloogt Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-68E2-2 Notes: The outer rings of one of the branches were radiocarbon-dated by the Isotrace Laboratory at the University of Toronto according to the AMS-method to AD 1000 10. (TO-119). Large | Larger |
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Title: Imported glasses found at Birka, Sweden
Creator: ATA Archive or Repository: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm Reference Number: burial 577, 649. 644 Notes: Glasses found in burials in the Swedish trading town Birka. Glasses 1 & 2 are from burial 577, 3 from 649, and 4 from 644. Large | Larger |
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Title: Weapons from Norway and Sweden on exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, 1968-1971
Creator: B. Wallace Collection or Fond: Personal Collection Notes: Viking weapons: axes, swords, spears, and bow and arrows. Shields were of wood reinforced with iron and covered with leather. The shield is a reconstruction; the iron rim and grip are original. Large | Larger |
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Title: Pair of characteristic bronze brooches worn by women. From Birka, Sweden.
Creator: Sren Hallgren for Statens Historiska Museum and Carnegie Museum of Natural History Archive or Repository: Objects in Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm Collection or Fond: Seton's collection Reference Number: 474:5 Large | Larger |
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Title: The Parks Canada Crew 1975
Creator: Charles Lindsay Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo collection Notes: The Parks Canada crew in 1975. The archaeologists, surveyors and conservators came from outside the area, but all the excavators were local fishermen. These latter were incredibly skilled in archaeological digging. Some of them had worked with the Ingstads on the earlier excavations as had archaeological assistant Birgitta Wallace (right bottom row). Large | Larger |
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Title: Tobacco Cutter
Creator: Leo Sarnaki Archive or Repository: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Anthropology Section Reference Number: 9749 Notes: Cutter used to cut plugs of tobacco. The cutters were produced in the 1890s as an advertisement gimmick by the American Tobacco Company. Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, New York. Large | Larger |
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Title: Adels runestone, U11, Hovgrden, Adels. Located by the ruins of the medieval royal seat Adels in Uppland, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Notes: The inscription says You read the runes. Tolir, foreman in the Kings clearing had them cut correctly. Tolir and Gylla had the runes carved, this couple in memory of themselves. Hakon asked to have it carved. 11th Century. Large | Larger |
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Title: American broadaxe from 1835
Creator: Henry J. Kauffman Pages: 65 Notes: "Broadaxe probably made and used in Pennsylvania. Dated axes and very uncommon, and the 1835 on this one is incorporated into the decorative design. Such patterns were made with very simple tools. (Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley)" Quote from: Henry J. Kauffman, 1972. American axes. A survey of their development and their makers. P. 65 Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Green Press Large | Larger |
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Title: House A & B Excavations 1973
Creator: B. Schnbck Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Notes: The remains of hall A, facing southwest. Although parts of the wall are gone, their former outline can be seen in the curved whitish outline in the foreground. Large | Larger |
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Title: Hut E and Bog
Creator: Thomas Lackey Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1843T Notes: Hut E such as it would have been in the 11th century. Facing west. Model by David Coldwell, on exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. Large | Larger |
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Title: Model of D-E Complex
Creator: Thomas Lackey Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1861T Notes: Model of how the D-E complex would have appeared in the 11th century. Model by David Coldwell, on exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. Large | Larger |
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Title: Dr. Bengt Schnbck, Leader of the 73-75 LAM Excavations
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo Collection Reference Number: 4A-1648T Notes: The Parks Canada Agency manages all National Historic Sites of Canada. The agency created an International Advisory Committee to develop plans for the protection and development of the L'Anse aux Meadows site. The committee consisted of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and senior archaeologists from Canada and all the Scandinavian countries. The committee decided that further excavation was needed. Anne Stine Ingstad declined leadership of these as she had other tasks at hand. In her stead the committee called in Dr. Bengt Schnbck from the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm Sweden. These excavations took place during the summers of 1973 to 1975. Large | Larger |
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Title: 1973 Excavations
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-1559T Notes: The 1973 excavations covered the areas between the houses. Facing south. The structure in the centre is a shed erected over the furnace hut by the Ingstad expedition. It has since been removed. Large | Larger |
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Title: Furnace Hut, Excavated
Creator: Bengt Schnbck Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo Collection Reference Number: 4A-796T Notes: The excavated floor of the furnace hut. Much of the sod on the walls was put there in 1962 to protect the remains of the original walls. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bog Ore
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1518T Notes: The raw material for making iron was bog ore. The L'Anse aux Meadows area is rich in bog ore, which is constantly being formed along the brook and in the bogs. Large | Larger |
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Title: Hall D Turret Photo, Facing North
Creator: Charles Lindsay Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-443T and 4A-445T Notes: Below the modern turf, the old sod forms a patchy pattern. Hall D, facing north. The circular feature in the centre and the planks through the walls were inserted in 1964 to improve drainage. Large | Larger |
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Title: Dorset Palaeoeskimo Harpoon Tips
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: The Parks Canada Archaeology photo collection Notes: Characteristic small Dorset Palaeoeskimo harpoon heads dating from the 6th-8th centuries found at L'Anse aux Meadows. They are made from chert, a hard stone that can be shaped by small light strokes. Large | Larger |
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Title: Typical Artifacts of 9th-century Aboriginal Occupation
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: The Parks Canada Archaeology photo collection Notes: Large spear heads or knives of chert were found in a large cooking pit west of hall F. They are typical of Indian implements from the the 9th century AD found on the site Large | Larger |
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Title: Hall A Footprint
Creator: Bengt Schnbck Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-982T Notes: Hall A excavated and partly resodded. Hall A was the only one of the three halls not to have side rooms. However, it had four rooms which shows that it is of the same period as those with side rooms. Large | Larger |
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Title: Aboriginal Sites
Creator: Bengt Schnbck Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Collection Reference Number: 4A-1095T Notes: The southern shore of Epaves Bay where most of the Aboriginal sites were located. the open area in the centre shows the excavation of some of them. Facing north. Large | Larger |
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Title: Hall F Wall Layers
Creator: Charles Lindsay Collection or Fond: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1021T Notes: The excavated profile (cross-section) of the northern wall of hall F, room I shows how the wall was built up of sedge peat sod along the edges and looser fill in the middle. Over the years, the sod has been compressed to a fraction of its original thickness. Large | Larger |
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Title: Foot Print of Hall F
Creator: Rob Ferguson Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: The footprint of hall F, the largest and most complex hall on the site. Only chieftains lived in halls of this kind. The founder and leader of the L'Anse aux Meadows settlement would have resided here. Large | Larger |
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Title: Hall D, Restored
Creator: Bengt Schnbck Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1079T Notes: Before excavation, the outlines of the walls were visible as low ridges, up to 30 cm high, but obscured by tall grass. In this photo the grass has been cut, and the sod replaced after completed excvation. Facing south. Large | Larger |
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Title: Three Layers of Wood
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-1630T Notes: A cut through the bog showed the presence of three layers of wood. The building in the backgrund is a shelter erected by the Ingstad excavation over hut E. It has since been removed. Facing east. Large | Larger |
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Title: Olaus Magnus Mooring Bolts
Creator: Olaus Magnus Archive or Repository: Historia om de nordiska folken [History of the Nordic People] Reference Number: vol. 2, Chapter 13 Notes: Figure in the 16th-century work by the Swedish Bishop Olaus Magnus used to corraborate the existence of mooring holes at Follins Pond. The figure shows the harbour in the large shipping centre Bergen in Norway in the 1550s. The title reads "About harbours with iron rings attached to rocks." The text states that the rings are permanently attached to the rock with molten lead. The rings were needed because the depth of the water was so great that one could not always use anchors. Large | Larger |
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Title: Birgitta Wallace, 1976
Creator: Rob Ferguson Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo Collection Notes: Birgitta Wallace 1976. When Bengt Schnbck returned to Sweden in 1975, Birgitta Wallace became the director for the last year of excavation, which took place in 1976. She has been the Parks Canada archaeologist for the site since then. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bog Excavation West of Hall A, 1976
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-1164T Notes: Thanks to the water and tannic acid in the bog, wood was perfectly preserved. The excavation required the trenches to be pumped out every morning. Facing northeast. Large | Larger |
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Title: Danish archaeologist Jrgen Meldgaard
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: In 1956 the Danish archaeologist Jrgen Meldgaard surveyed Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula in search of Norse sites. Meldgaard conducted test excavations at Westerbrook on Pistolet Bay but did not find any evidence of the Norse. Large | Larger |
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Title: Loom in National Museum of Iceland
Creator: B. Wallace Collection or Fond: Personal Collection Notes: Spinning, weaving, knitting and sewing were female tasks. Weaving was done on an upright loom of the same design as this relatively recent loom in the collections of the National Museum of Iceland. Large | Larger |
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Title: The Excavated Hall at Stng
Creator: B. Wallace Collection or Fond: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: The roof and all wooden elements had been destroyed and rotted away but the walls, the earth floor and stone parts of the construction remained. The remains have been roofed over and are open to tourists. Large | Larger |
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Title: Dorset Lamp
Creator: Dan Crawford Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo Collection Notes: This small soapstone oil lamp is a mystery. Such lamps are usually found only in the high Arctic and date from the late Dorset Palaeoeskimo period, that is from after the 11th century. The lamp was found embedded in the modern sod above the furnace hut at L'Anse aux Meadows (you can see it marked in the profile of the furnace hut). The hut had already collapsed when the lamp became embedded in the sod, so it postdates the Norse. A radiocarbon date on the material inside the lamp gave the result "modern." But how did it end up on the site? Large | Larger |
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Title: Slag
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1519T Notes: One of the byproducts of iron production is slag. Metallurgical analyses of the L'Anse aux Meadows slag showed that the producers had not been particularly skilful and that the furnace had been fired only once. Large | Larger |
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Title: Rune Calendars Mora Museum. Mora. Darlarna, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Personal Collection Notes: Late 19th century Swedish rune calendar. Perpetual calendars where days and special holidays were indicated by runes were common in rural Sweden throughout the 19th century. Large | Larger |
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Title: Rk runestone, g 136. Rk, stergtland, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Notes: The Rk stone was erected c. 800, a period of transition from the Old to the New Futharks and contains runes from both futharks. Its inscription is longer than on any other runestone and contains elaborate poetic references to legendary events. Large | Larger |
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Title: View of Site Facing Northwest
Creator: B. Wallace Collection or Fond: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: View of the site facing northwest. Epaves Bay is to the left. It is separated from Medee Bay to the right by a low flat point, Beak Point. In the background is Great Sacred Island which forms a characteristic land mark. A small flat island, Warren Island lies just off Beak Point. The Labrador coast is visible in the background. The green outlines on the terrace to the right are the footprints of the Norse buildings. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bone pin with yarn from the East Settlement, Greenland
Creator: Leif C. Vebk Archive or Repository: "The Church Topography of the Eastern Settlement and the Excavation of the Benedictine Convent at Narsarsuaq in the Uunartoq Fjord." Collection or Fond: Meddelelser om Grnland, Man & Society 14 Notes: Two needles of bone, one of them still with woolen thread in the eye. (Length of longest need;e, ca. 11 cm) These pins were found at the Norse site Narsarsuaq in the East Settlement in Greenland. Large | Larger |
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Title: Willow rope From Narsaq
Creator: Christen Leif Vebk Archive or Repository: Narsaq - a Norse landnma farm. Collection or Fond: Meddelelser om Grnland, Man and Society 17 Notes: 'This hoop from the Norse site Narsaq in the East Settlement in Greenland was made in the same way as the rope stumps from L'Anse aux Meadows.' Large | Larger |
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Title: 13th-century door from The Farm Below the Sand, Greenland
Creator: Joel Berglund and Arneborg Jette Archive or Repository: Grden under Sandet. tusaat, Forskning i Grnland, 4 Reference Number: 7-19 Notes: Door found at the "Farm beneth the sand" in the West Settlement, Greenland. It was made of three wide planks held together with two horizontals attached with treenails. The door is 1.10 m high. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bracteate from Tjurk, Augerum parish. Blekinge. Statens Historiska Museum # 1453, Stockholm.
Creator: Unknown Editor: Anita Knape Pages: 52 Notes: The bracteate, which is of gold and measures 27cm in diameter, has an inscription in Proto-Norse in Old Futhark runes. It says Hald made the runes on the French gold. Large | Larger |
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Title: Woman with an elaborate hairdo or headdress and dressed in long pleated dress and a cape, holding drinking horns. Picture stone from Tjngvide, Gotland, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: B. Wallace photo collection Collection or Fond: Stone now in Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm Reference Number: G110 Large | Larger |
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Title: Butternut, Juglans cinerea, a North American member of the walnut family.
Creator: Shane Kelly for Parks Canada Archive or Repository: L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Notes: Three butternuts and a butternut wood burl were found in the Norse layers. Butternuts have never grown north of eastern New Brunswick. This means that they were brought to the site by the Norse, indicating that the Norse had travelled at least as far south as New Brunswick. The butternuts grow in the same areas as wild grapes, so the Norse who picked the nuts probably encountered grapes as well. Large | Larger |
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Title: L'Anse aux Meadows Models Overview
Creator: Rob Ferguson and Thomas Lackey Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Photo Collection Notes: Models by David Coldwell depicting site as it may have been in 11th century. Top model is in the City Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Bottom model is on exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. Large | Larger |
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Title: Runestone by Hg church, Hs 12, Hlsingland, Sweden
Creator: B. Wallace Notes: The text says: Gudnjut Truson has this stone erected and made the bridge in memory of his brothers sbjrn and [Ganlev?]. The stone has a Christian cross and dates to the 11[[superscript]] th[[/superscript]]Century. Large | Larger |
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Title: The Badlelunda Stone, Vem 13, Badelunda, Vstmanland, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Personal Collection Notes: Runestone by large burial mound, the Anund Mound, at Badelunda, Vstmanland, Sweden. The text says Folkvid had all these stones raised in memory of Heden, his son, Anunds brother. Vred cut the runes. Large | Larger |
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Title: Maglehj stone. Runestone at the Maglehj burial mound near lstykke church, Sealand, Denmark.
Creator: B. Wallace Notes: Runestones carved in the period 1835-1890. One of three stones commissioned by the Revered K.E. Mhl; in memory of his wife who died in 1835. The stones were placed around a Bronze Age burial mound. The runes are a mixture of the Old and New Futharks. The text on this one says Dont cry, only remember. Large | Larger |
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Title: Gripsholm runestone, S 179 by Gripsholm castle in Mariefred, Kmbo parish Sdermanland, Sweden.
Creator: B. Wallace Notes: The stone is one of the so called Ingvar stones commemorating men who participated and died in the attacks led by the chieftain Ingvar in Serkland, the land of the Saracens. Probably present-day Iraq. The text says Tola had this stone erected in memory of Harald. Ingvars brother. They went away like men/ far away seeking gold/and in the east/ gave the eagle food [died in battle]. They died southward/ in Serkland. The expedition was a failure, and nobody seems to have returned. Circa 1040. Large | Larger |
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Title: Bottom of wooden milk bowl from Liden in lvdalen, Darlarna, Sweden. Dated to 1792
Creator: rgunnur Sndal Pages: 5-33, fig. 5 Notes: The inscription says EES OPS 1782:D:VAR:IAG:HR:WID:MAK;MYRA;I;FRN 26 IULI: TIL AUGUSTI:06 : INTE:BRGA:ET: STR:GUD:VET:WAD:SOM:BLIR:AF:OS:I:R WI HOP:PAS:D:BSTA:MAK:MYR:DEN 3 AUGUSTI 1782:EES E[rik] E[re]s[on] O[lof] P[er]s[son] 1782 then I was here at Makmyr from the 26 of July to 4 August and did not harvest a straw. God knows what will become of us this year. We hope for the best. Makmyr the 3 August 1782. E[rik] E[rs]s[on]. Large | Larger |
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Title: Parkers Brook, Pistolet Bay NL
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: Parkers Brook, Pistolet Bay, Newfoundland. Facing north. William Munn believed that the main Vinland settlement was on Pistolet Bay, about 25 km southwest of L'Anse aux Meadows near Parkers Brook. Large | Larger |
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Title: William Munn
Creator: Unknown Archive or Repository: The Evening Telegraph Ltd., St. John's Notes: The first to suggest that L'Anse aux Meadows was the site where Leif Eriksson stepped ashore was the Newfoundlander William Munn. He wrote a series of articles on this topic for "The Evening Telegram" in St. John's, Newfoundland, which were published in 1914 in a small book, [[italics]]The Vineland Voyages. The Location of Helluland, Markland and Vinland from the Icelandic Sagas[[/]]. Large | Larger |
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Title: The Charcoal Kiln
Creator: Thomas Lackey Archive or Repository: Parks Canada archaeology photo collection Reference Number: 4A-1850T Notes: Model showing the making of charcoal in a pit 7 m southwest of the furnace hut. Model by David Coldwell, on exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Large | Larger |
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Title: LAM Visitors' Centre
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: B. Wallace photo collection Notes: After the completion of the Ingstad excavations in 1968, the historical significance of the L'Anse aux Meadows site was recognized by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, and in 1975 a Federal-Provincial agreement was signed to make it a National Historic Site of Canada. All such sites are managed by the [[link http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_E.asp]] Parks Canada Agency [[/link]], In 1978, the site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first site in the world to be so honoured. There is now a modern Visitor Centre on the site with an exhibit featuring the site. Large | Larger |
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Title: Swedish Amulets of Female Figures
Creator: ATA Archive or Repository: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm Reference Number: 10035, Bj968,128 Notes: Four small amulets showing women in long dress and shawls from Sweden. The first one also has a necklace. She appears to be wearing a jumper over a pleated dress with a train. All have elaborate hairdos, although the last one may be wearing a cap. This figure is carrying a drinking horn and probably represents a valkyrie. the amulets are of bronze and silver; the largest is 3.2 cm high. From left to right they are from Tuna, Uppland, Statens Historiska, Stockholm #10035 Birka, Uppland,Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [2 and 3] # Bj968 Kping, land, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm #128 Large | Larger |
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Title: The Furnace Hut Reconstruction
Creator: Rebecca Harrison Archive or Repository: B. Wallace Personal Collection Notes: Reconstruction of the furnace hut. at L'Anse aux Meadows. The stone in the foreground, set on a tree stump, is where the iron was beaten with a sledge hammer as soon as it was retrieved from the furnace. This drove out some of the non-iron particles so that the iron could then be forged into the desired products. - The furnace can be seen in the background Large | Larger |
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Title: Electromagnetic Survey Glaumbaer, Iceland
Creator: Paul Steinberg Archive or Repository: Paul Steinberg photo collection Notes: Electromagnetic survey of a farm at Glaumbaer in northern Iceland by the American archaeologist Paul Steinberg. Via the survey the presence of Viking Age hall could be documented. Large | Larger |
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Title: Carving on Hylestad church, Setesdal, Norway
Creator: Erik Nyln Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Agency Collection or Fond: Cultural Resources Archaeology collections, Halifax Notes: Wood carving on church door showing the mythical smith Regin forging a sword for the legendary hero Sigurd. Regin is working the sword with his hammer and tong. Sigurd is fanning the forge fire by pumping the bellows. Large | Larger |
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Title: Smoothing board and slickstone from Birka, Sweden, 10th century
Creator: ATA Notes: "Ironing" board of whalebone and slick stone of glass. The wet garment was put on the board and rubbed hard with a "stone" of glass until it was smooth. The garment was then left flat until dry. This method was best suited for smaller items like blouses and head-dresses. The same method smoothing was used throughout the 19th century. It makes linen as smooth, shiny and stiff as if it had been starched. Large | Larger |
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Title: The Carl Emil Larsson letter from 1883 Edward Larsson collection. DAUM, Archives of Dialects and Ethnology, Ume, Sweden.
Creator: Tryggve Skld Pages: 5-12 Notes: Runes used among itinerant apprentices as a form of secret script in rural areas in north-central Sweden. The runes are quite different from medieval runes, but a medieval pentadic system of dates has been maintained. Large | Larger |
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Title: Cutting Sod
Creator: Tom Lackey Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-1837A Notes: Model of 11th-century L'Anse aux Meadows showing sod being cut for house construction. About 1100 cubic metres of sod would have been required for the L'Anse aux Meadows buildings. Model by David Caldwell Large | Larger |
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Title: Fragmentary Boat Nail
Creator: B. Wallace Archive or Repository: Parks Canada Archaeology Reference Number: 4A-141W Notes: Fragmentary boat nail. The shank has been cut, and the head is missing, but the rove remains. Parks Canada Archaeology catalogue number 4A76J2-1&2. On exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. Large | Larger |
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Title: Iron ring inscribed with runes in Forsa, Hlsingland, Sweden. The inscription is a legal document.
Creator: Jens Bekmose Archive or Repository: Jens Bekmose private collection, courtesy Forsa-Hgs parish via Eivor Mhler Collection or Fond: The ring was originally in the church. It is now in the parish office, with a copy in the church. Large | Larger |
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![Runestone from Spelvik, Sdermanland, Sweden, stating that 'Grytgarr, Einrii, the sons, made [this stone] in honour of their brave father. Guver was west in England; ransom he got, forts in Saxony he attacked like a man'.](../../images/site/165679_1.jpg) |
Title: Runestone from Spelvik, Sdermanland, Sweden, stating that 'Grytgarr, Einrii, the sons, made [this stone] in honour of their brave father. Guver was west in England; ransom he got, forts in Saxony he attacked like a man'.
Creator: ATA Archive or Repository: Antikvarisk-topografiska arkivet, Stockholm Collection or Fond: S 166 Spelvik, Grinda Reference Number: 1108:33 Large | Larger |
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