Medieval History
Knut Kjeldstadli of the University of Oslo has led a group a researchers who have studied Norway?s immigration history from the Viking Age up to the present. He says the tracks left by immigrants and visitors traverse the entire period.
?Irish slaves came in the Viking Age. And around the year 1000 another import came that was to have a huge impact on Norwegian culture: Christianity," says the history professor.
The kings brought along specialists in Christianising people. These were priests and monks from Germany and England. Even the Anglo-Saxon bishop and advisor ? who canonised Olaf Haraldsson, was a Brit.
Kjeldstadli points out that multiple groups immigrated to Norway in the Middle Ages.
At the bottom of the social ladder were the Irish slaves, or thralls. They might not have had too much of an impact on the culture. Around 1250 the first refugees came from Russia. They had been pressed westward by Mongolian tribes.
But a number of career immigrants ? specialists in various professions ? probably had the biggest influence. Some followed in the wake of the new religion.
?The men of the church in this context were not just the priests and monks, but also stonemasons and other craftsmen,? says Kjeldstadli.
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Medieval History
Immigration in the Viking era
Knut Kjeldstadli of the University of Oslo has led a group a researchers who have studied Norway?s immigration history from the Viking Age up to the present. He says the tracks left by immigrants and visitors traverse the entire period.
?Irish slaves came in the Viking Age. And around the year 1000 another import came that was to have a huge impact on Norwegian culture: Christianity," says the history professor.
The kings brought along specialists in Christianising people. These were priests and monks from Germany and England. Even the Anglo-Saxon bishop and advisor ? who canonised Olaf Haraldsson, was a Brit.
Kjeldstadli points out that multiple groups immigrated to Norway in the Middle Ages.
At the bottom of the social ladder were the Irish slaves, or thralls. They might not have had too much of an impact on the culture. Around 1250 the first refugees came from Russia. They had been pressed westward by Mongolian tribes.
But a number of career immigrants ? specialists in various professions ? probably had the biggest influence. Some followed in the wake of the new religion.
?The men of the church in this context were not just the priests and monks, but also stonemasons and other craftsmen,? says Kjeldstadli.
Click here to read this article from ScienceNordic
- Archaeological Research Reveals New Insights About The Vikings In Wales
Recent excavations by archaeologists from the National Museum Wales at the Viking age settlement of Llanbedrgoch on the east side of Anglesey have shed important new light on the impact of Anglo-Saxon and Viking-age worlds operating around the Irish...
- Researchers Look To Save Deteriorating Viking Treasures Of Oseberg
Conservation experts in Norway are conducting tests to see if a solution can be found on how to save important archaeological finds from the Viking Age that were discovered in Oseberg in 1904. Researchers from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo,...
- New Viking Village Discovered
Norwegian archeologists have discovered the foundations of at least 15 buildings, an 80-meter long street and a harbour near Gokstadhaugen burial mound in Sandefjord. So far, the ground hasn?t even been broken into. The remains that could potentially...
- Dozens Of Shipwrecks In Norwegian Lakes
An international team from ProMare (US), the Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norway), the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (Norway), and Teledyne Gavia (formerly Hafmynd ehf) have located nearly two dozen, well-preserved shipwrecks in the lakes...
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