Östlund, Lars
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2007Peer reviewed
Stones in the snow: a Norse fur traders' road into Sami country
Bergman I, Ostlund L, Zackrisson O, Liedgren L
Abstract
High in the mountains between Norway and Sweden, archaeological survey has brought to light a trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals and tall enough to show above the winter snows. In the absence of any cultural material, the erection of the stones was dated by the diameter of the lichen spreads upon them, and corroborated by a study of the documents and radiocarbon dates. The authors argue that this was not an indigenous trail but one constructed by a Norse chieftain probably around the ninth century AD to gain safe access to the fur-trading Sami
Published in
Antiquity
2007, Volume: 81, number: 312, pages: 397-408
Publisher: ANTIQUITY
Zackrisson, Olle
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00095260
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/14996