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of
pre-Christian
household
cult
is
simultaneously an articulation of both pre-
Christian Nordic and pre-Archaic domestic,
familial, and/or household religion.
In accordance with the requirements of the
School of Culture and Society, Aarhus
University, the concluding text of the
dissertation also takes the form of an article,
entitled “Synthesising the Spaces of Pre-
Christian Religion in the Late Iron Age”. It
offers a summary of the proceeding articles
and seeks to establish how the findings of the
those articles address the
research questions of
the dissertation as a whole. The dissertation
concludes that pre-Christian Nordic religion
was characterised by intense variation along all
manner of axes, and that
seeking to further our
understanding of the interactions between
these articulations and their aggregate
assemblage will contribute not only to the
study of pre-Christian Nordic religion, but also
to the wider Study of Religion, Nordic cultural
history, and Viking Studies.
Notes
1. I owe thanks to Russell Poole, the editor of
Viking and
Medieval Scandinavia, and the anonymous peer-
reviewers for their feedback.
2. I owe thanks to Meg Boulton, Heidi Stoner and Jane
Hawkes, the editors of
Place and Space in the
Medieval World, for their input, and to the copyright
holders of the images reproduced in the article for
their generosity in allowing me to use their work.
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