Pirates Pulpits Picture Stones Bressay History Group 2013

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Silke Reeploeg

Centre for Nordic Studies

[email protected]

www.nordic.uhi.ac.uk

Pirates,

Pulpits,Picture Stones:an introduction toGotland
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Gotland

Welcome to the pretty medieval town of Visbyon the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.Full-time population: 20,000.Number of summer visitors: 800,000.The perfect place to celebrate SwedishMidsummer, getting away from it all.

Or, the perfect place to commit a murder

and get away with it?


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Major Varangian(ON: Vaerinjar, Greek: Varangoi, Variagoi) Trade Routes

(red) and Greek Trade Route (purple). Other Trade Routes of the 8-11thcenturies in orange.


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Hanseatic League (c.13th-17th centuries) Hanseatic Trade (1358-1754 (Bergen Kontor))

Visby: c.12th-16th centuries Hanseatic Cities (Hansestdte, partial list) : Lbeck (" capi tal") , Ber l in, Bremen, Colo gne (Kln),

Danzig (Gdansk), Dortmund , Erfur t , Hambu rg, Magdebu rg, Kiel , Knigsb erg (Kal ining rad), Riga, Rostock,

Wismar ; Kontore (Count ing Houses) : Bergen, London , Novgorod.
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Pirates!The Victual Brothers (1392)

"God's friends and the whole world'senemies"

(Freunde Gottes und aller Welt Feinde).

Contemporary (1405) depiction of pirates inBunge Church, Gotland.


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Images: Wikipedia Commons [Online]Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gotland-Bunge_kyrka_Wandmalerei_05.jpg

Bunge Church (Swedish: Bunge kyrka)14thcentury High Gothic typical for Gotland, built on top ofa 12thcentury Romanesque church.


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Pulpits


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Sanctuary Ring

Images: Sanctuary rings at a Gotland Church and at the Notre Dame, Paris [Online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anneau_portail_de_la_Vierge_Notre-Dame_de_Paris.jpg.


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Picture Stones


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Images: S. Reeploeg, except Tjngvide image

stone [Online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tj%C3%A4ngvide.jpg


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Images: RCAHMS Site Record for Bressay [Online] Available at: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1279/details/bressay+cullingsburgh/

Benres, of the Sons of the Druid, here (Left) the cross of Natdoddsdaughter here (Right)Naddodd: Faroese Viking whodiscovered Iceland (Landnamabok), Graves, Charles (1836-1869) On the Ogham Inscr ipt ions Foun d on a Monum ent at Bressay, in Shetland, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Available online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520461)
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1279/details/bressay+cullingsburgh/http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520461http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520461http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520461http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1279/details/bressay+cullingsburgh/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1279/details/bressay+cullingsburgh/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1279/details/bressay+cullingsburgh/


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Sources/Further Reading

Gotland Official Tourist Information Site [Online] Available at:http://www.gotland.info/language/eng/gotland.php

Picture Stones: Foster, SM. (2012). 'Pictish Parallels for Gotland's PictureStones?'. in L Kitzler hfeldt, M Kllstrm, M Karnell & P Widerstrm (eds),Gotland's Picture Stones. Bearers of an Enigmatic Legacy. Fornsalens frlag.Jrnlderns gtfulla budbrare.Fornsalen, Gotland, pp. 171-182. See alsoPictish Stones website by Historic Scotland [Online] Available at:http://www.pictishstones.org.uk/)

Baltic Connections [Online] Available at:http://www.balticconnections.net/views/exhibition/detail.cfm?mode=theme&ID=

C7FE0A73-084C-C224-20798F75241A9300 Haklyt, Richard, Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of

the English Nation, An agreement made betweene King Henrie the fourth andthe common societie of the Marchantsof the Hans. [Online] Available at:http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hakluyt/voyages/v05/chapter11.html

Stdtebund - Die Hanse[Online] Available at:http://www.hanse.org/en/hanseatic-cities/bergen.php

Schulte, Margrit (2011) Networks of the Hanseatic League[Online] Availableat: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-networks/economic-networks/margrit-schulte-beerbuehl-networks-of-the-hanseatic-league#NorthernEurope
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