Interdisciplinary Approaches and Scientific Methods in Viking Studies

The 42nd Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium on Friday 16 May 2025 is devoted to contributions dealing with new interdisciplinary and scientific methods in Viking research. Groups of speakers are allotted 45 minutes for their presentations, whereas other presentations are allotted 30 minutes. Please allow 3 to 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Kind regards from the organizing committee: Eva Andersson Strand (Centre for Textile Research, School of Archaeology, Saxo Institute/UCPH), Lasse Sonne, (Saxo Institute/UCPH), Michael Lerche Nielsen (Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics/UCPH).

 

9:30 Registration, coffee
9:50 Opening session
10:00 Jonas Jæger: Ovicaprine livestock management practices in the Viking Age – viewed through
biomolecular archaeology, zooarchaeology and landscape studies 
10:30 Laura Viñas Caron, Asta Berenth Schunck, Helene de Neergaard, Luise Ørsted Brandt: A clothomics approach to Viking Age fur
11:15 Anders Söderberg, Mette Højmark-Søvsø, Michael Neiß, Rasmus Andreasen, Thomas Birch:
Forging Identities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Viking Age Metal Casting and Cultural Transformation
12:00 Matthew Delvaux & Jonas Reventlow Petersen: Reappraising Beads for the Future of Viking
Studies: Colors, Types, and Contexts
12:30 Lunch break (at your own expense except for speakers)
13:15 Peter d’Agnan: New interdisciplinary approach on the Bulverket site on Gotland
13:45 Greer Kimsa Jarrett: From the masthead to the map. An experimental and digital approach to
Viking Age seafaring itineraries
14:45 Marcus Asserstam, Karin Lindeblad, Marita Sjölin National Historical Museums: Viking Age
magnate farm with South Scandinavian Influences New Results from Pryssgården, Östergötland, Sweden
15:30 Coffee 
16:00 Nikolaj Wiuff Kristensen, Kroppedal Museum & Aoife Daly, Dendro.dk: Flax redding pits at
Kirstinehøj II – archaeology and dendrochronology
16:30 Charlotte Rimstad, Ph.D. and curator & Eva Andersson Strand, Professor of Archaeology:
Viking Age textiles in the TRiVAL project
Poster session Nanna Friis Hellström: Seeing colours through numbers
17:30 Wine reception at CTR Centre for Textile Research/Center for Tekstilforskning, room 11B-1-05,
cordially sponsored by UCPH School of Archaeology.

 

Dinner

After the seminar and the reception, dinner at your own expense will be coordinated by Michael Lerche Nielsen. The dinner will hopefully take place at Kulturhuset, Islands Brygge. In case you wish to participate, please email to lerche@hum.ku.dk