Farmers, Mariners, and Lords of Long Ago Archaeology and Prehistory in the Agder Region
farmers, mariners, and lords of long ago Archaeology and prehistory in the Agder region By Frans-Arne Stylegar VEST-AGDER FYLKESKOMMUNE The author wishes to thank a number of people who contributed to this book, each in his/her own way: Dag Nævestad, Tor Kviljo, Karl Ragnar Gjertsen, Erik Peersen, Berit Sellevold, Martin Rundkvist, Aslak Fjermedal, Annette Booth, Ole Bertil Madsen, Torinn Hageland, Snorre Haukalid, Pål Nymoen, Tom Bloch-Nakkerud, Svein Mjaatvedt, Tom Heibreen and May-Liss Bøe Sollund. ISSN 1504-7520 Reports from the Departement of Regional Development, Vest-Agder County Council farmers, mariners, and lords of long ago Archaeology and prehistory in the Agder region contents The landscape - 6 The irst settlers - 26 Early farming - 40 Farmers and mariners - 52 Romans and barbarians - 74 Aristocrats of the Migration period - 102 Kings and vikings - 146 Portal from Hylestad stave church, Valle: Detail showing Regin forging a sword. Regin is working with hammer and tongs, while a helper operates the bellows . the landscape It is a commonplace of tourist brochures to state that a given region has ’everything’. But when it comes Agder, Norway’s southernmost region, it is almost true. Even if the two Agder counties are rather small com- pared to other Norwegian regions, the nature is remarkably varied and so are the ways of life. Just recently I woke up at the Penne farm to a Eidsfjorden with Listeid and Briseid, Farsund. Elle farm in the foreground to the working-day on Lista. It was May, and the sun was shining. Dressed in right. Isthmuses like Listeid and Briseid shorts and t-shirt I went ahead with my business, surveying bronze-age were for a long period natural routes of Agder is the southernmost region in Norway, comprising the communication, and yachts are still being rock-art.
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