Thor Heyerdahl's Search for Ancient Links between and ?

Main editor Vibeke Roggen

Editorial board Christer D. Daatland, Sevdagul Aliyeva, Hokuma Abbasova, Tarana Yagubova and Line Kristin Haug

CD NOVUS PRESS 2014 Table of Contents

To the Reader, I Forewords, VII • Espen Barth Eide, VII • Husein Baghirov, IX • Samad Seyidov, XI • Thor Heyerdahl Jr, XIV

Vibeke Roggen: Academic cooperation between different cultures, 1

Part I. Thor Heyerdahl and Azerbaijan, 14 Rasim Garaja: A role model, 17 Christer D. Daatland: Heyerdahl the man, 20 Maja Bauge: Thor Heyerdahl's work: A survey, 29 Thor Heyerdahl Jr: My Father Thor Heyerdahl, 37 Tore Seierstad: Thor Heyerdahl and Jacqueline Beer's visit to Azerbaijan in September 2000, 46 Robert Mobili: Thor Heyerdahl and the Udi people, 53 Vusala Elshad qizi Afandiyeva: Thor Heyerdahl's role in the development of relations between and Azerbaijan, 60

Vibeke Roggen and Line Kristin Haug: Heyerdahl-related events, • Thor Heyerdahl's visits to Azerbaijan: 1981, 1994, 1999, 2000, 73 • President Heydar Aliyev visits Norway in 1996, 78 • Prime Minister Artur Rasizade visits Norway in 2001, 79 • Heyerdahl bust unveiled in 2008, 81 • First ever Heyerdahl conference held in , 2011, 82 • President Ilham Aliyev meets with Heyerdahl's relatives in 2011, 85 • Honorary professorship presented in 2011, 86 ' • Presentation in Baku Club, 88 TABLE OF CONTENTS V

• Heyerdahl books published in Azerbaijani in later years, 88 • Exhibition in Baku: "Thor Heyerdahl - the Kon-Tiki Man", 2012, 90 • Bikers on the track of Odin and Heyerdahl, 2013, 92 • DNA-testing in Azerbaijan, 2013, 93

Part II. Thor Heyerdahl and literature, 98 Dilgam Ahmad: Kon-Tiki - a poem, 100 Bente Christensen: Thor Heyerdahl - Literary Writer, 103 Betty Blair: Book presentations, 115 • Kon-Tiki and I by (1914-1972), 115 • In the Footsteps of Adam, A Memoir by Thor Heyerdahl, 118 • Thor Heyerdahl: Beyond Borders, Beyond Seas - Links to Azer­ baijan, 123 Yuri Mamedov: Thor Heyerdahl - a poem, 128

Part III. Heyerdahl's theory about migration from the Caucasus to Scandinavia, 130 Vibeke Roggen: Azerbaijan and Thor Heyerdahl, 133 Christer D. Daatland: Heyerdahl's "Odin theory": The book behind the controversy, 145 Jon Ramberg: Thor's 'right to make claims', 153 Jon Gunnar Jorgensen: Snorri and the origin of the Odin theory, 156 Vibeke Roggen: Between Snorri and Heyerdahl: The Odin theory around 1700, 165

Archaeologists in Gobustan, 182 Goshgar Goshgarli: Thor Heyerdahl and Azerbaijani Archaeology, 185 Malahat Farajova: Boats in Rock Art of Gobustan, 191 Knut Helskog: Petroglyphs of boats as evidence of contact between the and Scandinavia, 202

Archaeologists in , 220 Sergey Lukyashko: Thor Heyerdahl's archaeological expedition to Azov and prospects for the development of archaeology in south-eastern , 223 J. Bjornar Storfjell: Scandinavians in Scythia: Thor Heyerdahl's interpretation of Snorri tested by the archaeologist's trowel, 235 VI TABLE OF CONTENTS

Comparisons - similarities - connections -?, 250

Hallvard T. Bjargum: The Quest for Linkages between Caucasian and Norwegian Folklore and Folk Music, 253 Farda Asadov: What do Arab sources say about Scandinavians in the Caspian before mid-9th century CE?, 271 Gorkhmaz Mustafayev: Thor Heyerdahl on the trail of the , 280 Siv Kristoffersen: The long run. Migrating (?) animal motifs, 294 Farah Jalil: Eschatology of Mythical Figures in Turkic and Scandinavian Epics (based on a comparison of Kechal and Loki), 307 Isa Habibbeyli andNazim Bababeyli: Petroglyphs in Alta (Norway) and Gemigaya (Azerbaijan): Are there analogous motifs?, 317 Vibeke Roggen: Heyerdahl's linguistic arguments, 325 DNA-testing of Medieval material in Norway, 335

Appendices and surveys, 338 Appendix I. On languages in this book, 341 Appendix II. Conference programme, 353 Presentation of contributors, 358 Select bibliography, 361 List of illustrations and their origins, 370 Index, 374 Map of Viking expansion and Scandinavian settlement from the 8th to the 11th centuries, back endpaper