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Binding animals and weaving conflict. On the meanings of animal ornamentation.

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Author

  • Maria Domeij

Editor

  • Anders Andrén
  • Peter Carelli

Summary, in English

The article is about the symbolic meanings of animal ornamentation in a long term perspective. Special interest is payed to the relation between the images in animal ornamentation and verbal expressions in early medieval skaldic poetry. The article also deals with animal ornamentation in a gender perspective.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

290-296

Publication/Series

Odin´s eye. Between people and powers in the pre-Christian North.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Dunkers kulturhus

Topic

  • Archaeology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 13:978-91-974550-5-3
  • ISBN: 10:91-974550-5-9