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  • Author Query Sheet Manuscript information Journal: sARC Manuscript number: 230258

    Queries1. Morris 2000 not in refs. Should this be 1999? 2. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 3. Howard-Johnston (in prep): supply update? (Where indicated in text by

    AQ3 and in ref list.) Also supply publisher in ref list? 4. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 5. i.e. in ref citations replaced with e.g., as i.e. (that is) doesnt make

    sense in the context. Is this OK? 6. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 7. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 8. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 9. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 10. Vierch 1978 not in refs. Should this be Vierck 1978? 11. Hedeager 2006a not in refs. 12. Thompson 1996 not in refs. Should this be 1997? 13. plate here changed to plait. OK? 14. Check meaning of : 248 in fig caption? 15. Brehm, B. 1926 not cited in text. Please cite or delete ref. 16. Please check the following refs are cited correctly in text: Morris 1999,

    Thompson 1997 17. Mller 1880 not cited in text. Please cite or delete ref. 18. Rostovtzeff 1929 not cited in text. Please cite or delete ref. 19. Rudenko 1970 not cited in text. Please cite or delete ref. 20. Supply location of publication for Eliade 1964. 21. Supply all eds for Fabech 1991. 22. Supply location of publication for Gibbon 1776--1788 [2005]. 23. Supply all authors for Harding et al. 2006. 24. Please cite figure 5 in appropriate location. Figs may need renumbering if

    cited out of order.

  • Scandinavia and the Huns: AnInterdisciplinary Approach to theMigration Era

    LOTTE HEDEAGER

    The aim of this paper is to discuss the early Migration period as a particular

    period of short term history and its formative impact on the Scandinavian

    longue duree in the first millenium. During this particular period of time, the

    object world of Scandinavia demonstrates radical changes in symbolic

    representation, followed by long term continuity and social/mental resistance

    to change. It is argued that the Huns, as a historical fact, were present in

    Scandinavia in the early fifth century. Their impact was to generate an

    episodic transition that opened up a whole new set of social, religious and

    political strategies, in Scandinavia in particular as well as in Barbarian Europe

    in general, and gave rise to a new Germanic identity in the aftermath of the

    Roman Empire.

    INTRODUCTION

    The classic Annales model of historical time,

    developed by Fernand Braudel in 1949, deals

    with different historical horizons, all of

    which are relevant to the discipline of

    archaeology: longue duree, conjunctures and

    evenements (e.g. Hodder 1986, 1987, Bintliff

    1991, 2004, Knapp 1992, Andren 1998,

    Morris 2000; , Moreland 2001, Hodder &Hutson 2003, Harding 2005, Harding et al.

    2006). However, it is the scale of long-lived/

    slow changing structures, la longue duree,

    and the medium term, conjunctures, which

    embrace the concept of mentalites and

    thereby serve as powerful theoretical models

    for studying the development of past human

    societies from the inside in a long-time

    perspective. By definition, then, any change

    in the collective representation of society has

    to happen gradually over time and therefore,

    ideally, should be visible in the material

    culture record too. This, however, is not the

    case. On the contrary, the object world

    demonstrates radical changes in symbolic

    structures at certain historical moments,

    followed by long term continuity and

    social/mental resistance to changes

    (Kristiansen 2004: Fig. 5). The aim of this

    paper is to discuss the early Migration period

    as a particular period of short term history

    and its formative impact on the

    Scandinavian longue duree in the first millen-

    nium. Hereby the shortest wavelength of

    time, that of individuals and events, are

    taken as the point of departure and explored

    as leading to a throughout reordering of

    society. The history of individual time is thus

    explored as the foundation for changes in the

    structural history of Northern Europe and as

    such this paper touches the current time

    structureagency debate within archaeology

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    Lotte Hedeager, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. E-mail:

    [email protected]

    ARTICLE Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol. 000, No. 000, 20070

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    DOI: 10.1080/00293650701303560 # 2007 Taylor & Francis

  • (i.e. Bintliff 2004, Harding 2005, Harding

    et al. 2006).

    HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK: THEIMPACT OF THE HUNS

    The chief of the Huns, king Attila, born of his

    father Mundiuch, lord of the bravest tribes, sole

    possessor of the Scythian and German realms,

    something unheard of before, captured cities and

    terrified both empires of the Roman world, and,

    appeased by their prayers, took an annual tribute

    to save their remnants from plunder. And when he

    had accomplished all this by favour of fortune, he

    fell not by wound of the foe, nor by treachery of

    friends, but in the midst of his nation at peace,

    happy in his joy and without sense of pain. Who

    can rate this as death, when none believes it calls

    for vengeance? (Jordanes: Getica XLIX:257)

    This was the song that was sung over the

    death body of Attila when he died in AD 453

    (Thompson 1996:164< ). This short curriculumvitae is, so to speak, a compressed represen-

    tation of his position as the paramount ruler

    of Barbarian Europe and superior to the

    Roman emperors, who paid him tribute. He

    kept his power through a sophisticated

    balance of terror and reward, well known

    as the strategy for later steppe empires, too.

    He never took, nor held, land; he controlled

    space by moving and kept it by way of

    mobility and speed (Pohl 2001). Throughout

    the first millennium AD the nomadic system

    developed and expanded continuously. Its

    frontiers moved forward, neighbouring peo-

    ples were conquered and the ethnic map

    and the geopolitical configurations of wes-

    tern Eurasia were redrawn (Martynov

    1991:chap. 5, Howard-Johnston in prep.:

    chap. I= ). Thus, the meeting with the Hunswas a historically well attested intersection

    between structurally different societies with

    divergent perceptions of time and space, the

    Roman Empire, the agrarian Germanic

    warrior tribes, and the hyper mobile pastoral

    steppe warrior society, inexplicable without

    an effective central authority and relatively

    well developed political institutions

    (Howard-Johnston in prep.: chap.I =).These edges of time and space might have

    opened up new ways of thinking and

    alternative perceptions of the world among

    the Germanic tribes. Those episodic transi-

    tions, as Anthony Giddens designates them,

    are defined as uneasy relations of symbiosis

    and conflict with, and partial domination

    over, surrounding societies (Giddens

    1986:245). The effect might be subversion

    or undermining of the ideological glue that

    formerly held the society together (Giddens

    1981:23). The new glue that kept the world of

    Attila together was gold. It motivated the

    barbarian allies to seek out Imperial gold in a

    never-ending spiral of consumption and

    violence. And it brought with it new social

    and religious institutions. This was the

    specific historical condition that character-

    ized the pan-European world-system during

    the first generations of the fifth century. But

    how far did this new world-system of Attila

    extend? And what was its impact?

    Romulus [who had come from Italy to Attila as

    ambassador], an ambassador experienced in many

    affairs, took up the discourse and said that his

    [Attilas] very great fortune and the power derived

    from good luck exalted him so that he could not

    endure just proposals unless he thought they came

    from himself. By no one who had ever yet ruled

    over Scythia, or indeed any other land, had such

    great things been achieved in such a short time,

    since he ruled even the islands of the Ocean and,

    in addition to Scythia, held the Romans also to

    the payment of tribute. He is aiming, he said, at

    greater achievements beyond his present ones and

    desires to go against the Persians to expand his

    territory to even greater size (Priscus fr.8, Gordon

    1960:91).

    From the conversation that followed

    between Romulus and Priscus, a Byzantine

    historian who travelled to the Hun court in

    449 on a diplomatic mission and recorded his

    impressions (Gordon 1960), we understand

    that the former held a competent geographi-

    cal knowledge of the Roman world and

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  • beyond. When he explicitly mentions the

    islands of the Ocean to stress the power of

    Attila, this indicates that he in fact knew

    what he was talking about and may have

    presupposed that Priscus did the same.

    Clearly, north of continental Europe is an

    ocean with islands, and scholars agree that it

    is the islands of the Baltic Sea to which he

    refers (Gibbon 2005:370, Thompson 1996:84

    with references> ). This is an obvious conclu-sion from the fact that the Huns gained

    supremacy over the Gothic tribes living in

    the north along the Vistula basin. Thus, if

    this is in accordance with truth, the Huns

    supremacy included part of Scandinavia.

    From the military and political strategy we

    know of elsewhere, it is most likely that the

    Huns and their allied troops physically went

    to the North for a brief expedition during

    which they established local strongholds by

    force and by diplomacy, during the first half

    of the fifth century. This might explain why

    Romulus is so precise on this particular bit of

    information. The historical truth of this

    hypothesis can, of course, never be proved.

    However, we must consider this a possibility

    if we wish to understand the cultural

    transformations of Scandinavian societies

    during this particular historical period when

    a new Germanic identity took shape. To

    what extent did it build upon Old Norse

    traditions, and to what extent were new

    traditions incorporated? The final result

    materialised among other things in the new

    Nordic or Germanic animal style, which

    represents a reformulation or reinventing of

    traditions, but with a new animal world

    added with no antecedents in the North

    (Hedeager 2005a, b). This can only be

    explained by foreign influence, and here the

    Huns are for several reasons the obvious

    candidates. This, of course, does not mean

    that the Huns were the only source of

    influence in the transformative period of

    the fifth century when the Nordic animal

    style took off. Classical elements, figural

    compositions, carving technique, etc., from

    Roman, Gallo-Roman and Byzantine art

    have long been identified in the animal

    ornamentation. However the whole concept

    of animals as the main organizing principle

    in the new artistic expression and as argued

    in the cosmology is hardly to be ascribed to

    the Roman world. It requires a further

    framework of explanation.

    All societies are influenced from the

    outside, traditionally labelled innovation

    or diffusion, presupposing that it is part of

    an ongoing process that gradually adds new

    elements to an existing pattern or material

    traits transferred from one culture to another

    (Kristiansen 2005:75, 151). However, the

    specific historical conditions that character-

    ized the post-Roman era are inextricably

    linked with the impact of the Huns. Here, a

    minority of people, the Huns and their allies,

    achieve and maintain control over a majority

    of peoples and nations during a brief

    historical period. Based on contemporary

    Roman sources, the Huns have traditionally

    been viewed as an archaic, predatory people

    only held together by military activity and a

    continuous inflow of booty. However, it is

    hard to explain their military capability and

    the diplomatic vision of the Huns without

    presupposing a sophisticated and highly

    effective central authority with extensive

    outreach. In the words of James Howard-

    Johnston they plainly operated on an

    imperial scale, both in terms of territory

    and the diversity of subject peoples

    (Howard-Johnston in prep.: chap. I =). Thus,when a new hierarchy of power relations was

    imposed, what impact did it have on

    Germanic societies and their institutions?

    The historical record and epic poetry of

    central and northern Europe begin with the

    dramatic historical events of the late fourth

    and early fifth centuries when the Huns held

    military and political power in Germanic

    Europe. Attila and the Huns constitute the

    fixed point of social remembrance, so to

    speak, an oral tradition of a longue duree

    thus codified in written form (Hedeager

    2000). I propose that these few decades of

    European history became decisive for the

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  • long-term cosmological history of Northern

    Europe. It was a rapid episode of significant

    individual experiences that were transformed

    into social time and collective memory and

    thus became the foundation for a change in

    the medium-term of structural history, and

    the long-term of geographical time of the

    Annales model. Only archaeology can how-

    ever provide the evidence to support or reject

    this hypothesis. And only archaeology can

    provide a first hand dating of Old Norse

    mythology and its origin. We shall therefore

    begin with an analysis of material aspects of

    Hunnic influence and its acculturation.

    ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK:TRANSFERABLE COSMOLOGIES

    The appearance of the Huns and the inter-

    section between the Huns and the Germanic

    tribes generated a transition in cultural

    knowledge and social memory among the

    Northern people. We should therefore expect

    that the adoption of new set of values and

    institutions, in a structured way, materialised

    in iconography, ruling regalia, monuments,

    buildings, etc. (Kristiansen & Larsson

    2005:10ff).

    Like oral tradition, symbolic objects have

    the capacity to cross generations because

    they can convey quite specific information

    about the past that was known to people.

    Symbolic memory encapsulates in condensed

    form mythological knowledge and master

    narratives. Thus, imbued with those quali-

    ties, artefacts operate as agents, embedded

    and contextualised in networks of social

    action and social knowledge (Gell 1992,

    Meskell 2004). They have their own curricu-

    lum vitae and may be perceived as acting

    independently. In Old Norse literature this is

    well attested regarding famous swords, hel-

    mets, necklaces, buckles and other personal

    adornments, named and thus personified

    (Hedeager 2001, 2004). Those artefacts were

    conceived of as actors similar to individual

    persons, reminding us of the lack of a simple

    subjectobject dichotomy of the ancient

    North, where objects were agents and where

    people and animals did not form binary

    oppositions. Thus, in opposition to the

    indivisible person we might rather operate

    with an Old Norse dividual nature of

    personhood where each individual is identi-

    fied as a series of parts (Fowler 2004: 24ff).

    Hugr, hamingja and fylgjur, which are central

    Old Norse concepts, confirm this perception

    of divided personhood in which shape

    changing and metamorphosis in animal

    disguise were regarded as natural things

    and a special feature of gods and priests

    (e.g. ?Davidson 1978, Price 2002, Hedeager2004, 2005a) (Fig. 1).

    Dividual persons contained within them

    components from other persons, animals or

    objects. In other words, objects are also

    actually more than individual agents; they

    could be part of various persons and thus,

    like animals, encapsulate parts of human

    personhood. In the dividual understanding

    of personhood specific objects had the

    capacity intimately to link two people

    together. Thus, the qualities that are to be

    found in persons are also to be found in

    objects, as elsewhere in the world (Fowler

    2004:27). And these qualities could be

    transferred and exchanged under specific

    conditions.

    The importance of ritual exchange among

    Germanic and Nordic peoples is well

    attested. Social and political supremacy was

    formed through the circulation of specific

    objects of supreme quality. They were

    brought into being through a particular

    process of manufacturing or initiation.

    They acquired an origin through a process

    of transformation, what Mary Helms (1993)

    calls skilled crafting and Alfred Gell (1992)

    a technology of enchantment, and like

    persons they had to go through a process

    of socialization through time to gain a

    particular cultural identity.

    During the first four centuries AD, Roman

    tablewares, weapons and jewellery, etc.,

    served this function as the medium of

    exchange, revealing social and ideological

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  • supremacy (e.g. Hedeager 1992).

    Manufactured within a foreign culture,

    whether Roman or Provincial, they were

    considered of mysterious or divine origin

    because they came from the outside world

    (Hedeager 2001). They reached the barbarian

    peoples as war booty and through ceremo-

    nial gift exchange in political alliances, and

    in funerary rites they were buried with the

    dead because they might have encapsulated

    the specific qualities and powers of the

    person while alive.

    However, from the late fourth century

    Roman goods stopped being consumed in

    the transmission of social and cultural

    knowledge, reflecting a disorder and loss of

    knowledge within these institutions. This

    fundamental change in the system of social

    and ritual reproduction is accompanied by a

    significant change in material culture, too.

    The new animal ornamentation (Salin 1904,

    Haseloff 1981) was an abstract language of

    signs that summarised in symbolic form

    divided personhood, animal disguise and

    metamorphosis as perceived realities

    (Kristoffersen 1995, 2000, Lindstrm &

    Kristoffersen 2001, Hedeager 2004, 2005a)

    (Fig. 2). It conveys a different language of

    power to the Roman. How are we to

    understand this dramatic ideological and

    cosmological change?

    The importance of the animals and a

    conceptual belief in shape changing are basic

    concepts to any shamanistic system of belief

    (e.g. Eliade 1964, Holmberg 1964) and

    have no obvious anchoring in the Roman

    World (Salin 1903, 1904). Hunnic religious

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    Fig. 1. Men in animal disguise from (a) the Torslunda stamps, Sweden; (b) a sword sheath from

    Gutenstein, Germany. (Drawing (a) Bengt Handel in Arbman 1980; (b) I. Muller in Arent 1969:

    Fig. 17.)

    Fig. 2. Animals with human masks as thighs (from

    an unknown mound, Denmark, after Salin 1904:

    Fig. 546: 248) ER.

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  • specialists, however, were seers and shamans;

    among other things the Huns trusted har-

    uspices at a time when the Romans and the

    Imperial Germans were Christianised, and at

    a time when Roman edicts threatened with

    capital punishment those insane enough to

    consult them. The specific Hunnic method of

    foreknowing, scapulimancy (divination from

    the scorched shoulder-blade of a sheep), was

    no doubt of Asiatic origin (Maenchen-

    Helfen 1973:270, Morgan 1986:40ff). To

    any society with a shamanistic worldview,

    animals are essential, and the Asiatic steppe

    peoples are traditionally no exception

    (Chang 1983, Martynov 1991).

    The Huns introduced a traditional Asiatic

    shamanistic belief system that resonated well

    with what we know of the Old Norse system

    of belief. But more importantly, in Germanic

    ideology political and religious power went

    hand in hand. Power, myth, and wealth

    always sustain and develop each other.

    Those who could provide all of these

    elements were considered superior. Now the

    Huns took over that role from the Romans.

    In addition, among the North European

    tribes in particular, this new system of belief

    might have represented a most attractive

    alternative to the adoption of the Christian

    faith. It gave rise to the development of a

    new symbol system with animals as the

    organizing principle, ideologically without

    anchoring in the Christianized Roman/

    Byzantine world.

    Inseparable from the appearance of this

    symbol system in the first half of the fifth

    century is the immense number of gold

    hoards in the North, reflecting a highly

    competitive and aggressive social and poli-

    tical system with gold as the potent vehicle of

    cultural and cosmological values (Hedeager

    1992, 1999). During the same decades of

    European history as those in which animal

    ornamentation came into being, gold con-

    stituted the supreme institutional medium

    for Attilas policy (Thompson 1996:94@ ).Thus, the immense number of gold hoards

    in the Nordic area can be ascribed to the

    policy of the Huns and the political situation

    in the Migration Period in general. The vast

    amounts of wealth as reflected in these

    hoards situate Scandinavia within the realm

    of Hunnic policy and interaction.

    As a steppe empire the Huns sovereignty

    over vast territories was upheld through

    speed, mobility, violence and reward. Like

    other nomad peoples they never conquered

    land in order to control it (Thompson

    1996:60 A, Pohl 2001). As mounted warriorsthey were, theoretically at least, able to cross

    from one end of Europe to the other in a few

    weeks because of their outstanding capacity

    as horsemen who carried everything with

    them on horseback (Howarth 1994:19). Their

    institutions were movable, too, and social

    power was exercised in the hall or the yurt

    (Kennedy 2002:45). Although Attila had a

    headquarters with impressive timber build-

    ings to deal with foreign diplomats, all social,

    cultural, military, economic, and religious

    institutions were transferable in space.

    Priscus reports on these institutions (Priscus

    fragm. Gordon 1960). No doubt, Hun

    society incorporated a wide variety of

    specialists who performed and codified

    institutionalised behaviour, whether the

    young women in the welcome procession,

    the performance of the banquet, the women

    who embroidered the beautiful textiles, or

    the artisan smiths who transformed the

    Roman gold into elaborated diadems, earr-

    ings, and buckles, some inlaid with precious

    stone (Chardaev 1991:255256), and elabo-

    rated horse gear, etc. Thus, the Huns, as the

    Scythians and other steppe people, possessed

    sophisticated institutions and a significant

    material culture embedded in them. The

    acquisition of gold and portable wealth

    constituted the purpose of diplomatic mis-

    sions and the goal of Hunnic foreign policy

    and warfare (i.e. Gibbon 2005: chap.

    XXXIVXXXV, Thompson 1996 B, Pohl2001, Heather 2006).

    Thus, the introduction of a new symbolic

    system in the late fourth and early fifth

    centuries might be ascribed to the imposed

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  • Hunnic institutions in which gold and

    animals are the media for social, religious,

    and political strategies. It represents an

    episodic transition that opened up for a

    new type of social complexity and the

    adoption of a whole new set of social and

    cosmological values in Barbarian Europe. To

    evaluate the Hunnic impact I put forward a

    hypothesis of Hunnic presence in

    Scandinavia.

    HYPOTHESIS: THE HUNS INSCANDINAVIA

    One way or another, Southern Scandinavia

    constituted part of Attilas sphere of domin-

    ion, even though we might not expect

    unambiguous material evidence to support

    this hypothesis. Without the written evidence

    we should never have known of the Hunnic

    direct presence in Europe. There is, however,

    scattered material evidence that has been

    identified as possessing diagnostic Hunnic

    features (Werner 1956, Bona 1991) and some

    of these are in fact present in the North.

    Among the artefacts Joachim Werner

    called attention to are the characteristic

    open-ended earrings of solid gold or silver,

    pot-bellied and with pointed ends (Fig. 3).

    They are known from graves north and east

    of the Black Sea and from the Danube plain

    in Hungary (Werner 1956:2426, Karte 10).

    However, Werner was not aware of nine

    similar earrings that have been found in

    Denmark, and one in Southern Norway

    (Fig. 4). They have never been identified as

    Hunnic, because nobody expected Hunnic

    items to appear there; this despite of the fact

    that Werner emphasised the type as one of

    the most significant and unambiguous

    Hunnic artefacts. Taking the huge body of

    Scandinavian gold hoards into consideration

    it is, however, striking that they are not

    found in this context. They are all single

    finds without clear context, and none of

    them come from bogs or wetlands as do

    many of the gold hoards. This indicates that

    they held a different position to other gold

    artefacts and the examples we know about

    are, as a result of their absence from hoards,

    probably only a small proportion of those

    originally in the area.

    Small bronze mirrors, frequently with

    the sun symbol on one side, are also

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    Fig. 3. Radensk, Ukraine: grave with two open-

    ended earrings (Werner 1956: Kat. no. 3). (After

    Bona 1991:Kat. no. 58:1115.)

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  • characteristic Hunnic artefacts (Werner

    1956:1924, Bona 1991) (Fig. 6). According

    to Werner (1956: Fig. 4) they are present in

    graves from the Hunnic core area between

    the Danube and the Theiss, as well as north

    and east of the Black Sea and far into central

    Asia. They are traditionally linked to sha-

    manistic practices. Laboratory analysis tes-

    tifies to the existence of one such mirror

    among the grave goods in the oldest and

    thereby the inaugural of the three royal

    mounds of Old Uppsala: the East mound,

    called Odins Mound (Arrhenius & Freij

    1992). It has been argued that the bronze

    plate may rather be ascribed to a fibula

    (Duczko 1996:78). However, the plate is

    exactly the size of the nomadic mirrors. A

    stone cairn covered the place for the funerary

    fire, and in the middle a cremation urn was

    dug into the ground. The cremated bones of

    a 1014-year-old boy were found along with

    fragments of glass, gaming pieces, belt

    fittings, a bone comb and a spoon, together

    with fragments of gold filigree and cloisonne-

    work, etc. (Lindqvist 1936, latest Duczko

    1996). There were fragments of bronze plates

    from a miniature leather helmet similar to

    the helmet in the prince grave in Cologne

    Cathedral (Arrhenius & Freij 1992). Also

    worth mentioning is a unique find of a solid

    tuft of human hair close to the urn. The

    burial is dated to the Migration period,

    certainly the sixth century, although the

    exact date is under discussion (Duczko

    1996:81). However, the bronze mirror

    together with a solid tuft of hair is rather

    reminiscent of ceremonial burial practices

    among the Huns (they cut off their hair when

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    Fig. 4. Distribution map of two of the most diagnostic artefacts related to the Huns: the pot-bellied, open-

    ended earrings of gold and silver and the bronze mirror. (Werner 1956: Karte 10 with additions.)

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  • in mourning as in the case of Attilas funeral)

    although the burial took place after their

    disappearance from Europe.

    Thus, one or two diagnostic artefact types

    ascribed to the Huns, pot-bellied, open-

    ended earrings and bronze mirrors, are

    attested in the North. The importance of

    animals is reflected in the development of

    Scandinavian and Germanic animal styles,

    the moveable wealth, the skilled crafting, the

    technology of enchantment, and the large

    number of gold hoards belong to the same

    cultural complex. However, the Hunnic

    presence took also more direct forms.

    In Scandinavia, the meeting with the

    Huns, although they might have included a

    mixture of ethnic groups, certainly caused

    similar reactions, as we know from the Late

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    Fig. 5. Open-ended earrings of solid gold, pot-bellied and with pointed ends from Denmark (14/82:

    Hammerslev, Randers county; C1419: Tjrnelunde Mlle, Holbk county; 30/08: Glums, Prst county;

    11/38: Denmark, unknown; C3426: Vejlstrup, Ringkbing county; C7403: Vils, Thisted county; 2/46:

    Svendsmark, Prst county; 6/28: Vindbls, Alborg county; 10/27: Klipen, Abenra county. Registration

    no: National Museum, Copenhagen). Drawing: Bjrn Skaarup. In addition a gold ring similar to 6/28 is

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  • Antique sources. At least some of the Huns

    clearly were of a distinct ethnic stock

    (Gibbon 2005:367368, Thompson 1996:56C ,Maenchen-Helfen 1973:361ff, Heather

    2006:148). They looked foreign, and their

    being in the world encapsulated fury, greed,

    and power, but also reward, admiration and

    superiority. This may explain why faces with

    distinct Asiatic attributes are incorporated in

    central positions on the first generations of

    excellent manufactured Danish and

    Norwegian square-headed brooches with

    elaborated and complex animal ornamenta-

    tion (Haseloff 1981) (Figs. 7, 8).

    Such traces in the material culture indicate

    that the Huns were present, or at least well

    known, to people of the North. Also the

    ceremonial dress carefully reproduced on the

    gold foil figures from the late Migration

    period onwards, and on the figures from the

    sixth and seventh century helmet plates

    (Watt 1999, 2004), is similar to the

    Caucasian kaftans known from seventh

    century burials (Holmqvist 1977: 214

    Abb.12, Vierck 1978:264265, Abb.15,

    Watt 2004:203, Mannering 2006) (Fig. 9).

    The belted tunic, the traditional garment for

    Asiatic steppe nomads, was introduced in

    Scandinavia in the fifth and early sixth

    centuries and has been explained as a result

    of the gotischen Kulturstrom (Vierch

    1978:26466 EX, Jrgensen 2003, 2005).However, the introduction of the caftan as

    the distinct male warrior-dress in

    Scandinavia from the late fifth century has

    recently been ascribed to direct Asiatic

    influence on Scandinavia (Mannering

    2006:197f). The significant change in military

    organisation to an emphasis on mounted

    warriors is likewise explained as a result of

    direct connection with the eastern steppe

    cultures. Furthermore, it has been argued

    that the type of saddle known from the

    chiefly burials at Vendel and Hogom in

    Sweden was brought to Europe by the Huns

    and the Avars (Engstrom 1997:248f).

    A significant group, termed Hunnish

    funeral sacrifices (Hunnische Totenopfer),

    contains mounts from highly ornamented

    harnesses, garments with applied gold dec-

    oration, saddle trappings, and occasional

    lances or javelins with signs of intentional

    destruction found in small groups on dry

    land (Tomka 1987: 156 ff). They are known

    from Eastern and Central Europe in the late

    forth and early fifth centuries, and analogies

    for such ritual customs are ascribed to the

    mounted nomads of Central Asia in later

    periods (Tomka 1987:159). There are

    striking similarities between these funeral

    sacrifices and a group of finds from Scania

    in Sweden, from the sites of Sosdala,

    Fulltofta and Vennebo, that can be dated

    to the first half of the fifth century

    (Fabech 1991:94ff). Thus, there is mounting

    archaeological evidence for a distinct

    Hunnic influence in selected areas of social,

    military and religious life. This influence,

    however, also included new myths and their

    representation.

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    Fig. 6. Levice-Leva (Slovakia): grave with earring

    and mirror (Werner 1956: Kat. no. 12). (After

    Bona 1991: Kat. no. 33.)

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  • One of the most significant and character-

    istic artefacts of the Migration period is the

    gold bracteates. Traditionally, the concept is

    ascribed to the Byzantine gold medallions

    with their portrayal of the Roman emperor

    (Bursche 2000) (Fig. 10). No doubt, the

    similarity in form and composition is con-

    vincing (Andren 1991, Axboe 1991).

    However, a closer look at the figures of the

    A-, B- and C-bracteates (Mackeprang 1952,

    Axboe 2004) indicates that their iconography

    is anchored in a substantially different world

    of ideas to the Roman (e.g. Hauck 1985

    1989, 1991). The composition on some of the

    B-bracteates certainly illustrates the central

    myths of Balders death and Tyr losing his

    hand in the mouth of the Fenris wolf (Hauck

    1978:210, 1986, Roth 1986, Hedeager

    2005a:236238). Their clear and unambigu-

    ous compositions suggest that these myths

    were newly invented in the belief system of

    the Old Norse.

    The largest group of bracteates, the so-

    called C-bracteates (Figs. 11a, b, c), illustrate

    a shamanistic representation of the soul

    journey: the head of a man in the disguise

    of a bird, travelling on a creature which

    looks like a horse but has a horn and beard

    (Hedeager 1997, 2006a EO). Some of the figureson the early bracteates are the most detailed

    and show the head with pearls like the

    Emperor or with what might be a diadem

    and with the long hair in a plait (Figs. 11a, b)

    and a variation on the same motif in which

    the plait has turned into a bird (Fig. 11c).

    The obviously shamanistic background to

    these motifs is rather to be found within

    steppe culture than in Roman iconography

    and system of belief. Thus, it is argued that

    this motif on the C-bracteates should not be

    considered solely as a barbarian imitation of

    Roman coins and medallions, but follows

    eastern steppe culture models. From Antique

    sources we hear of the Huns as exceptional

    horsemen. They looked, as Ammianus

    Marcellinus says, as if man and horse were

    almost glued together as one creature, half

    man and half horse (Thompson 1996:57 EP),

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    Fig. 7. Human masks on the earliest Style I fibulae from Scandinavia: 1: Lunde, Norway; 23: Galsted,

    Southern Jutland; 4: Hstentorp, Zealand; 5: Anda, Norway; 68: Tveitane: Norway. (After Haseloff

    1981: Abb.53.)

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    Fig. 8. Human masks as part of the ornamentation on brooches: (a) Galsted, Southern Jutland; (b)

    Lunde, Lista, Norway. (After Haseloff 1981: Abb. 9 & 3.)

    Fig. 9. Gold-foil figures from Sorte Muld, Bornholm. (After Watt 1991: Fig. 7. Drawing: Eva Koch.)

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  • which in fact we see on some bracteates.

    That the Huns had long hair is certain; they

    might as well have worn it in a plaitEQ likeother Asiatic steppe peoples. The elaborated

    diadems depicted on some of the bracteates

    heads can be ascribed to the specific Hunnic

    diadems of gold and inlaid stones (cf. Bona

    1991:147149, Pl. xiv, xv, Werner 1956:61

    68). And the horned horse likewise

    represents an Asiatic ceremonial horse with

    artificial horns, as for example the Scythian

    example known from a frozen tomb at

    Pazyryk, although from the fifth century

    BC (Altheim 19591962:440, Abb.8).

    Clearly, the bearded and horned creature

    on the C-bracteates is far from the images of

    an imperial Roman horse.

    Might it be that people in the North

    deliberately took the strongest symbol of the

    Roman emperor, his portrayal on the gold

    medallion, and transformed it into a reverse

    symbol of barbarian power and supremacy

    by replacing its central motif? After all, the

    iconography of the gold bracteates has no

    obvious background in the material culture

    of the Roman Period and their central

    symbols belong in the Hunnic cultural realm.

    I suggest that the iconography presents the

    most significant of the new myths introduced

    in the fifth century. Some of these were

    turned into written form around 1200 and

    are thus recognisable, while others were lost

    and are incomprehensible to us.

    CONCLUSION

    During the fifth and early sixth centuries,

    there are systematic and recurring traces in

    the material culture of Scandinavia that

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    Fig. 11. C-bracteates. (After Hauck et al. 19851989: Kat. no. 75, 300, 50.)

    Fig. 10. Scandinavian replica of a Roman gold

    medallion (after Hauck et al. 19851989: Kat.

    no. 107.)

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  • indicate a structured transmission of

    symbols with affiliation to the Huns. In the

    North they became contextualized in a

    process of cosmological and institutional

    invention. This short historical period of

    the fifth century and the establishment of

    new institutions for gaining political power

    might have opened up new ways of thinking

    and new perceptions of the world, as

    indicated by the institutionalisation of a

    new symbolic system. This episodic transi-

    tion represents a decisive and conscious

    religious change that sustained the rise of a

    new Germanic identity in opposition to the

    declining Roman West and its new Christian

    faith.

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    This paper was presented at a seminar on

    Migration and the Roman Era, in Oxford,

    May 2006. I am grateful to Helena Hamrow

    and Peter Heather for organizing the seminar

    and to James Howard-Johnston, who gave

    me access to his unpublished manuscript

    about the political situation in Western

    Eurasia 200800 AD and who, as a historian,

    widened my scope on the Huns. Two referees

    have provided valuable and well-informed

    comments. The results, however, are wholly

    my own responsibility. English revision is

    made by Nick Thorpe, illustrations by Per

    Persson.

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