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Short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else stergrd. Chapters on technique: production of the tread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing by Anna Nrgaard. Measurements ...

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An equestrian burial from the 10th century with an exceptionally elaborate horse harness was discovered at Fregerslev near Skanderborg in eastern Jutland, Denmark in 2012. This formed the starting point for the Fregerslev Research Project initiate...

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(Publications of the National Museum, Ethnographical Series 14, 1974)

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Even in well-established democratic societies, the political system currently faces a crisis of civic engagement and participation. Increasingly, this lack of engagement and the accompanying erosion of institutional legitimacy result in antidemocr...

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In Rhythm - Advanced Studies, Erik Hjsgaard, composer and professor of aural training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, provides a detailed guide to reading and understanding advanced use of rhythm. The 451 exercises and their corresponding no...

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The Christian theology of N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) is based on the principle that humankind, created in God's image, has retained a divine spark og that image, which can welcome God's gift of grace and salvation. Human Comes First il...

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In 1864, a large metal hoard of copper, bronze and silver objects was discovered at Pile in the southern Swedish region of Scania. The hoard has been dated to the onset of the rich Nordic Bronze Age, and emerges as the earliest, finest and one of ...

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Celebrating 25 years of archeological research at the Danish Institute at Athens.

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The second conference report on the archaeological site of Petras, Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted about the very important and extensive cemetery of the Pre- and Proto-palatial periods in eastern Crete one of very few excavatio...

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The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelleys Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandi...

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Corruption. We are all aware that much of the world and its leaders are corrupt, but the level differs from country to country. While corruption can mean everything from offering cake to your friend who is on a diet, to letting companies bribe top...

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Questions: Between Identity and Difference is in many ways a curious book. It is a scholarly book, but tests the boundaries of traditional academic methods. It is a philosophical book, but bases its arguments on observational studies in classrooms...

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Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged and most controversial film directors of our time, Triers films often escape the representat...

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In chapter 1, the basic assumptions of the random vibration theory are emphasized. In chapters 2 and 3, pertinent results of stochastic variables and stochastic processes have been indicated. Chapter 4 deals with the stochastic response analysis o...

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During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Smi, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Smi art and craft) have been or...

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One mans way of thinking about God has decisively shaped the political and economic rise of Nordic social democracy. 500 years ago, Martin Luthers writings led to the Reformation in the Nordic countries, and his values and beliefs shaped more than...

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The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected...

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The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise region...

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The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (17701844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europes most soughtafter artists; he was also a collector. In addition to his own works and drawings, he built extensive collec...

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For almost a century, music on the radio has been an important part of Danish music culture. Tunes for All? Music on Danish Radio presents the many ways music and radio have co-existed and interacted from the 1920s until today. Music radio is a co...

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Exploring Text, Media, and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic...

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The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly o...

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Negative stories make the news. Drama and conflicts, victims and villains. They are our modern world. Or are they? This revised second edition on constructive news challenges the traditional concepts and thinking of the news media. It shows the co...

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Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe is the first study of the role of the landed estate as an agent in the shaping of landscapes and societies across northern Europe over the past five centuries. Leading us into the fascinating variations of mano...

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Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. Contributi...

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For millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail. Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban ...

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Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europes modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts or so was the perception at ...

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In this pioneering musicological study the Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen proposes that the classical-romantic main current of the 19th century in fact represents two sub-currents, the one focusing on the romantic aspects, the other...

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Homeric Chalkis is situated on the coast of Aetolia at the very gateway of the Gulf of Patras. The foundation occurred during an important period in early Greek history when trade and movement of peoples along the Gulf intensified with a resulting...

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This book investigates how the emergence of the Arctic as a new geopolitical arena affects and reshapes the area known as the North Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and coastal Norway. The relationship between the center of the form...

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