![]() ![]() ![]() Thereafter, and essentially until now, the long shadow of World War II had put an end to any further efforts. Still in 1941 Herbert Jankuhn penned an article on “Birka und Haithabu” in the Ahnenerbe-periodical Germanien on the sites’ different nature in trade. Hereby, such an attempt to relate and compare just these two sites is not novel at all: As early as in 1926 Sune Lindqvist pointed to the close connections between the two maritime trading centres in his article “Hedeby och Birka“, published in the periodical Fornvännen. The idea to a joint conference arose from the need for a contemporary comparison between the Viking-age sites of Birka and Hedeby in a larger context. AD 750-1000”, published in the series Theses and Papers in Archaeology of the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm university, gather the proceedings of the eponymous conference held at the Historiska museet in Stockholm in 2013. Hard copy available via: The volume “New Aspects of Viking-age Urbanism, c. ![]()
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