SLAGFÄLTSARKEOLOGI VID GRUNWALD (TANNENBERG/ŽALGIRIS) (1410)… Studia Maritima, vol. XXXI (2018) ISSN 0137-3587 DOI: 10.18276/sm.2018.31-12 Sven Ekdahl* SLAGFÄLTSARKEOLOGI VID GRUNWALD (TANNENBERG/ ŽALGIRIS) (1410). ETT POLSK-SKANDINAVISKT FORSKNINGSPROJEKT UNDER ÅREN 2014–2017** BATTLEFIELD ARCHEOLOGY AT GRUNWALD. A POLISH-SCANDINAVIAN RESEARCH PROJECT 2014–2017 Keywords: Battlefield Archeology, Grunwald (Grünfelde), Polish-Scandinavian research project. Summary The paper describes the search for the field of the battle of Grunwald / Tannenberg / Žal- giris (1410) with metal detectors in the years 2014–2017. In February 2014, a joint project of the Grunwald Museum (Polish: Muzeum Bitwy pod Grunwaldem w Stębarku) and the Danish Archaeological Society Harja was agreed upon and signed in Odense, Denmark. According to the agreement, Harja was to provide the main group of metal detectorists that were to scan the areas chosen by the Museum. The main goal of the project was to try and locate the area named ‘Valley of the Great Stream’ (Dolina Wielkiego Strumień) to the south and east of the village of Stębark (German: Tannenberg), which, according to Andrzej Nadolski (1921–1993), a Polish archaeologist and historian, was supposed to * prof. dr hab. Sven Ekdahl, Instytut Polsko-Skandynawski w Kopenhadze,
[email protected]. ** Den presenterade texten är en utökad version av det meddelandet som publicerades i tidskriften Przegląd Historyczny CIX, 2018, nr 2 under titeln Battlefield Archaelogy at Grunwald (Tannenberg, Zalgiris) A Polish – Scandinavian Research Project during the period 2014–2017. 254 Sven Ekdahl be one of the most important places of the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, where the allied Polish-Lithuanian forces clashed with the Teutonic Knights in Prussia.