Migration and the Creation of Identity in the Viking Diaspora: a COMPARATIVE STUDY of VIKING AGE FUNERARY RITES from NORTHERN SCOTLAND and MØRE OG ROMSDAL
Migration and the creation of identity in the Viking diaspora: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VIKING AGE FUNERARY RITES FROM NORTHERN SCOTLAND AND MØRE OG ROMSDAL Frida Espolin Norstein Master’s Thesis in Archaeology Spring 2014 Cover illustration: Map of the North Sea region (after Graham-Campbell and Batey 1998:26). i Acknowledgments The work on this thesis has been both challenging and rewarding, and there are many people who have in some way contributed to the process. I would first and foremost like to thank my supervisor, Julie Lund, for always steering me in the right direction. Her advice and support has been crucial in shaping this thesis. I would also like to thank Lotte Hedeager for useful comments on the research design. My visit to the collections and archives at Vitenskapsmuseet in Trondheim was facilitated with the help of Ole Bjørn Pedersen and Anne Birgitte Høy- Petersen, who prepared the artefacts and documents I wanted to examine, for which I am very grateful. There are many people at Blindernveien 11 who deserve thanks for making this last year not just bearable, but often highly enjoyable. Thank you for many interesting discussion, both relevant and completely irrelevant to this work. In particular, I would like to than Nicolai Eckhof for helping me identify the combs used in this analysis, and Cathrine Bru Guldberg for literature advice. My excellent team of proofreaders, Hulda Espolin Norstein and Andrew Smith, need to be thanked, and so does Malin Vangsnes who provided useful comments on structure and consistency. I would also like to thank my family for all their support, especially my brother, Trym Espolin Norstein, who put up with me in Trondheim and always answered the phone when I needed someone to complain to.
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