5. f2012 graves and kings
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The graves of the early kings and others of high status with a comparison with rich graves from Sweden. A comparison of motifs in manuscripts and metalwork from Sutton Hoo.TRANSCRIPT
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Faith, Work (Kings), Death(Kings)
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Consequences of Conversion
• Emergence of Hiberno-Saxon style• Start of written Anglo-Saxon• Promotion of literacy in Latin and Anglo-
Saxon
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Consequences of Conversion
• Written laws and charters• Mingling of church and state• Increased communication between regions
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Masterpieces of Insular Art
• Book of Durrow• Lindisfarne Gospels• Book of Kells
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Book of Durrow
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Durrow- Mark
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Lindisfarne Gospels
Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp
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Comparison
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Turn the pages
Lindisfarne Gospels
Luke 23:24-25 with Anglo-Saxon gloss
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Book of Kells
• Iona? before 806• 680 pages Vellum• Links to designs
– Celtic stone carving and metalwork,
– Byzantine– Coptic– Assyrian and – Armenian
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Sutton Hoo
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Sutton Hoo
9
1 Ship Burial
2 Ship Burial
3 Cremation w. horse
5,7 Cremation
9 Burial w. horse
17 Warrior prince
17
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Ship Burial
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Anglo-Saxon and other ships
Ship Length Width CrewSutton Hoo I 24 m 4.3 m 38 oarsSutton Hoo II 20 mSnape 14 m 3 mGokstad (Viking) 23.2 m 5.2 m 32 oarsPinta Deck 17
m5.4 m 26
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Sutton Hoo, Grave with Offerings
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Sutton Hoo -Pagan
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A Royal Pillow, Down and textile remnants
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North Sea
Context
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Shield
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Sutton Hoo Shield Boss Vendel XII
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Shield Details
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Sutton Hoo- Pagan
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Sutton Hoo-Christian?
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Sutton HooReplica of lyre
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Taplow, Drinking horn, late 6th C.
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Sutton Hoo, Hanging Bowl
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Shoulder clasps
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Mound 17 Sutton Hoo prince
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Global Cooling - - 535-6≳
• Procopius (536) “. . . the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse . . .”
• Anglo-Saxon chronicle(538, 540) two eclipses• Annals of Ulster (536) “Failure of bread”
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Global Cooling - 535-6≳
• Mongolian pine – Frost ring 536– Cool spell to 545
“The last decade-long cooling event was a.d. 536–545 where dust veil, cold, famine, and plague was recorded in Byzantium and China.”Engvild “A review of the risks of sudden global cooling and its effects on agriculture” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 115, 127-137 (2003)
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SwedenBoat BurialsRoyal Burials
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Questions
• Was the burial pattern at Sutton Hoo a product of a socially narrow dynastic elite? OR
• Was there one produced and manifested throughout the whole of the populace.
• Was there a common distinct Germanic culture throughout the various folk of the North, across the hinterland of the North Sea and the Baltic, expressed in burial patterns and iconography?
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Gamla Uppsala
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Cheek piece, Sutton Hoo Helmet panels Valsgärde 7
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Cheek piece, Sutton Hoo Helmet panels Die
Torslunda
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Sutton Hoo Helmets Valsgärde I
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Sutton Hoo - Sweden
• No animal sacrifice at Mound I– Animals at other mounds
• Christian elements• Common: boar depictionCasandra Vasu An Interpretation of Swedish Influences On the East Anglian Gravesite M.A. Thesis, Bowling Green State University 2008
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Benty Grange, Derbyshire
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Street HouseCemeterynr. Loftus, N. Yorkshire
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Street HousePendant, Bed Burial
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Sæberht
• Nephew of Æthelberht• c. 604 East Saxon king under dominion of
Æthelberht• Christian convert• d. ~616• Sons revert to paganism
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Prittlewell
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/• Prittlewell Priory (now a museum), Southend,
Essex• Excavation 22nd October to 23rd December 2003
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Burial chamber
Southend, Essex Rptd. 2/5/2004
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Sæberht’s grave
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Gold and silver finds6th and 7th centuries
Staffordshire
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Sword HiltsGold and silver6th and 7th centuries
Staffordshire