Halls at Borre: the discovery of three large buildings at a Late Iron and Viking Age royal burial site in Norway

• Autores: Christer Tonning, Petra Schneidhofer, Erich Nau, Terje Gansum, Vibeke Lia, Lars Gustavsen, Roland Filzwieser, Mario Wallner, Monica Kristiansen, Wolfgang Neubauer, Knut Paasche, Immo Trinks
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 94, Nº 373, 2020, págs. 145-163
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Borre in Norway is famous for its Late Nordic Iron and Viking Age (AD 400–1050) monumental burial mounds. Recently, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys have revealed three large structures close to the mound cemetery. Their unusual layout and size, and location within such a prominent burial site, suggest that they were halls—high-status buildings mentioned in the Nordic sagas. The authors present the GPR results, discuss the buildings’ typological classification and provide a preliminary chronological framework. The latter suggests that the buildings coexisted with some of the burial mounds, and raises important questions about the significance of such buildings in Nordic mound-building societies.