Borderland-stalkers and Stalking Horses. Horse Sacrifice as Liminal Activity in the Early Iron Age.

Published in "Current Swedish Archaeology" vol.14. 2006

DATING TWO ROYAL MOUNDS OF OLD UPPSALA

published in: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt Jahrgang 38 · 2008 · Heft 2

Dating two royal mounds of Old Uppsala – evaluating the elite of the 6th-7th century in Middle Sweden
The perhaps most famous excavated iron age graves in Sweden are the East- and West Mounds of Old Uppsala (Gamla
Uppsala) in Uppland, Middle Sweden. After a debate which lasted from the 1920s to the late 1940s it was widely
accepted that these mounds belonged to the Migration period. According to the regular Swedish chronology this
means a date before the middle of the 6th century. I believe that this view is wrong and that it has not seriously been
challenged since 1948. To date the mounds to the late 6th and even the early 7th century has a serious effect upon how
elite, society and international relations should be interpreted.

Review of Klaeber 4 and Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition

Advance Access version, to be published in Review of English Studies, 2009