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Jelling - Runestones - photo taken by Casiopeia
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What Sources do we have?
At one hand there is all the written stuff.
It contains the runic writing, used for inscriptions and messages and also the much bigger stuff of medival writers.
The second part can tell us a lot more but it is written down by persons who never lived in Viking times, who mainly wrote down old oral traditions and who've been influenced by their own time and by the organisation or persons they wrote for.
On the other hand for shure there is all the archaeological stuff, wich contains excavations of metal, coin, jewelery, leather, bones, stones, carvings, fabric, tools, articles of daily use, skeletons including the excavations of ships, houses etc. There is just one problem: the interpetation of all this material.... That's the reason why Hedeby is sometimes called "Rubbishtown": there have been made such great number of excavations over years, that it was'nt possible to catalogue and interpete all the material. A great illustration for this fact are the leather excavations there: This material has been ignored over years for some reasons. The excavation report "Bericht 21 - Die Lederfunde von Haithabu" from 1984 for example, tells a story about. In the end "620" pieces of leather from more than "2000" of the excavations from 1963 - 1969 found the way into the catologue.......
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