Both the completed transcription of our emigration protocols, the construction of the national Historical Population Register, and other developments make an article about methods for studying emigration from Norway through the last couple of centuries topical. It starts by discussing the Norwegian and American source material where we can identify the emigrants’ absence from Norway. It in particular ...

The Storegga tsunami (8175-8120 cal. BP, Bondevik et al., 2012) has often been described as a catastrophe spelling major disaster and demographic decline for the people in the danger zone. More nuance is needed if we are to understand the effects. Most studies have had a supra-regional or regional character; less effort seems to have put into studies at the sub-regional level. The Norwegian coast, ...

Yarn and textiles recovered from prehistoric Dorset and Thule culture sites in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have raised questions about the extent and timing of indigenous and Norse interaction in the New World, whether the yarn represents technological transfers between Greenland's Norse settlers and the Dorset, or whether these Indigenous Arctic groups had independent fiber technologies before ...

Denne avhandlingens fokus er på Jakob Jenssen Anderssen (1850-1921), sogneprest i Evenes, Ofoten fra 1879 til 1921. Analysen skal ta for seg Anderssen som både sogneprest og spiritist, hvordan og hvorfor han fikk denne interessen og hvordan han utviklet det til å bli en praksis ved siden av sitt yrke som prest. For å sette dette inn i en større samfunnskontekst sammenligner avhandlingen Anderssen ...

Статья посвящена истории саамов и историческим методам. В реляционном контексте рассматриваются основные результаты и центральные аспекты истории саамов. Какие последствия — как в отношении методологии, так и стилей повествования — эти аспекты имели и должны были иметь для процессов проведения исследований и составления истории саамов? Основное внимание уделяется политике в истории саамов и её ...

På seinhøsten 1590 ble en rekke personer, flest kvinner, bragt inn for retten i Edinburgh mistenkt for trolldomsaksjoner rettet mot den nygifte kongen James VI. Dette ble starten på en omfatende kjedeprosess som pågikk helt fram til sommeren året etter. Kongen selv var aktiv med som tilhører og forhører i rettslokalet. Gjennom forhør og bekjennelser utviklet en omfattende demonologisk forståelse ...

Recent studies on conspiracy thinking has concluded that the strongest predictor of the tendency towards conspiratorial thinking is a one-dimensional construct-conspiracy mentality-that is relatively stable over time and valid across cultures. Lantian et al. (2016) found that a single, elaborate question can work as a measure of conspiracy beliefs. We assess the validity of this question for an ...

<i>Innledning</i>: Formålet med dekorasjonsprosjektet og med boka Norske krigsdekorasjoner, er å undersøke om det er grupper eller personer som ikke er dekorert som fortjent på bakgrunn av hemmelighold, manglende kunnskap eller politiske forhold. Boka gir ingen oppsummerende eller syntetiserende konklusjon om dette hovedspørsmålet, men i forordet slås det fast: «Prosjektgruppens anbefaling er at ...

At a possible transition towards a ‘flat’, post-human or new-materialist environment, many have suggested that archaeological theory and theorizing is changing course; turning to metaphysics; leaning towards the sciences; or, even is declared dead. Resonating with these concerns, and drawing on our fieldwork on a northern driftwood beach, this article suggests the need to rethink fundamental notions ...

This​​​ article focuses upon the delimitation between the separate farm units and the collectively exploited common lands (‘allmenninger’) in Southeastern​​​ Norway during Medieval times. In these commons, various kind of resources – like pastures, woodland and fisheries – were accessible for exploitation by a majority of farmers in the settlement community, but subject to more restrictions than the ...