I forbindelse med Asgeir Svestads (AHR) forskning på Skjoldehamndrakten (Ts3897) har det blitt gjennomført pXRF-analyser på metallknapper- og ringer for å avklare råstoff. Analysene ble gjort av undertegnede i magasinet på Tromsø Museum den 08.02.2017 med assistanse fra Asgeir Svestad og Dikka Storm (konservator ved TMU).

On 28th April 1768 the Imperial and Royal Astronomer of Vienna, the Jesuit Maximilian Hell (1720-1792) left his workplace at the Vienna University Observatory to embark upon a strenuous journey to the extreme north-eastern corner of Norway.

Reproduction of source materials used for the PhD thesis Maximilianus Hell (1720-1792) and the Eighteenth-Century Transits of Venus: A study of Jesuit Science in Nordic and Central European Contexts

The Historical Population Register (HPR) of Norway gives rise to new research opportunities on a large array of topics spanning medicine, social sciences and humanities. This introductory article outlines the contents of the register, the periods it covers, and its use, particularly with respect to the study of geographic mobility. This article introduces the articles in this issue, which concentrate ...

This article traces the development and narrative staging in Russian media of the so-called Russian-Norwegian patriotic memory tours that took place from 2011 to 2019 to celebrate a heroic story of WWII Red Army soldiers and Norwegian partisans in Soviet intelligence service. The article concludes that the tours were initiated by Russian state and state-affiliated actors who exported military-patriotic ...

The article studies the Sámi experiences during the ‘German era’ in Norway and Finland, 1940–1944, before the Lapland War. The Germans ruled as occupiers in Norway, but had no jurisdiction over the civilians in Finland, their brothers-in-arms. In general, however, encounters between the local people and the Germans appear to have been cordial in both countries. Concerning the role of racial ideology, ...

Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened ...

The article uses narratology as a tool to examine the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Finland and the area of Finnmark, Northern Norway, to analyse how experience as a category of knowledge and expression surfaces in original court records. This article focuses on courtroom discourse in witchcraft trials: the interrogation, what the accused confessed to in terms of ideas about witchcraft, ...

One of the main purposes of The Act of 19 June 2009 No.100 Relating to the Management of Biological, Geological and Landscape Diversity is to protect landscape diversity. Consequently, protection of cultural heritage is also an integrated part of the management of Landscape Protection Areas. Via a case study of the Second World War Luftwaffe storage site at Gjøkåsen, which is part of Øvre Pasvik ...