Julie Lund

• Fahlander, Fredrik & Lund, Julie (2026). A Natural Choice: Ontologies of Death and Burial between Faiths in Early Medieval Scandinavia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. ISSN 0959-7743. doi: 10.1017/s0959774326100705. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study re-evaluates south Scandinavian burial practices during the early part of the Christianization period (tenth–eleventh centuries). By employing a bottom-up approach, we focus on the specific funerary practices rather than on teleological, top-down models of religion. We identified a significant shift from Viking Age grave goods (exotic, precious, personal objects with long and complex biographies) toward everyday, local and natural (biotic) materials, such as charcoal, hazel sticks, unburned animal remains and stone. Rather than being grave goods per se that emphasize individual or social identities, these materials are argued to have been chosen because of their anticipated abilities to prolong the vitality and integrity of the dead body. In particular, the placement of charcoal and animal remains around vulnerable areas, such as the head and pelvis, suggests a prophylactic intent. The use of such materials and practices vanished as formal Christian burial grounds became fully established in the twelfth century. Thus, the intermediate period graves reveal a distinct ontology of death, dead bodies and eschatology different from both earlier Old Norse and later Christian beliefs.

• Lund, Julie (2025). Viking Age Ship Graves as part of a Multifaceted Repertoire of Performative Burial Customs. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 58(1), s. 116–116. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2025.2556779. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie; Furholt, Martin & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). Reassessing power in the archaeological discourse. How collective, cooperative and affective perspectives may impact our understanding of social relations and organization in prehistory. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 29(1), s. 33–50. doi: 10.1017/S1380203822000162. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper critically examines how power is understood and used in archaeological interpretation of prehistoric societies. We argue that studies on power within archaeology have been haltered in their interpretive potential, frequently limited to individualizing coercive power with androcentric connotations. We explore new avenues of power through a retrospective view. Drawing on ideas first conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, while also incorporating theoretical ideas from collective action, anarchistic theory and the affective turn, we argue that power as a phenomenon and explanation within archaeology can be refined and nuanced when approached through a lens of collective agency and the affective potential of material culture. This connects, furthermore, to how we today see and act on changing power dynamics.

• Lund, Julie & Semple, Sarah (2021). Introduction. Medieval Materialities. I Lund, Julie & Semple, Sarah (Red.), A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age. A Cultural History of Objects, Volume 2. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474298681. s. 1–28. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Sindbæk, Søren Michael (2021). Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research. ISSN 1059-0161. doi: 10.1007/s10814-021-09163-3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract This paper reviews the achievements and challenges of archaeological research on Viking Age northern Europe and explores potential avenues for future research. We identify the reemergence of comparative and cross-cultural perspectives along with a turn toward studying mobility and maritime expansion, fueled by the introduction of biomolecular and isotopic data. The study of identity has seen a shift from a focus on collective beliefs and ritual to issues of personal identity and presentation, with a corresponding shift in attention to individual burials and the “animated objects.” Network ontologies have brought new perspectives on the emergence of sea trade and urban nodes and to the significance of outfield production and resources. Field archaeology has seen an emphasis on elite manors, feasting halls, and monuments, as well as military sites and thing assembly places, using new data from remote sensing, geophysical surveys, geoarchaeology, and metal detectors. Concerns over current climate change have placed the study of environment as a key priority, in particular in the ecologically vulnerable North Atlantic settlements. Discussing future directions, we call for alignment between societal/economic and individual/cultural perspectives, and for more ethically grounded research. We point to diaspora theory and intersectionality as frameworks with the potential to integrate genomics, identity, and society, and to ecology as a framework for integrating landscape, mobility, and political power.

• Lund, Julie (2021). Kerbing Relations through Time: Reuse, Connectivity and Folded Time in the Viking Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. ISSN 0959-7743. FirstView, s. 1–20. doi: 10.1017/S0959774321000445. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The paper explores a group of graves in which the past was used actively in Viking Age eastern Norway. Studying the use of the past in the past was introduced in British landscape archaeology of the 1990s, but a reassessment and a renewed relevance of the theme may now be observed due to the rise of materiality studies and the affective turn within archaeology. Through an investigation of the apparently insignificant kerbstones on a number of Viking Age burial mounds in Eastern Norway, and their links to specific Roman period mounds and graves, the paper explores how time and the past were perceived in the Viking Age. This further opens potential for examining connections between the use of the past and identities and self-perceptions in a Viking Age society. The analysis also includes a movement away from understanding reuse merely as a means of power. The overall ambition is to demonstrate the relevance of studies of the past in the past in archaeology today.

• Lund, Julie (2020). Rune Stones as Material Relations in Late Pagan and Early Christian South Scandinavia. Danish Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 2166-2282. 9, s. 1–20. doi: 10.7146/dja.v9i0.110949. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2019). Alken Enge som rituel plads. Deponeringer i lyset af fragmentering, skelettering og dannelse af en ny rituel plads. I Løvschal, Mette; Holst, Mads Kähler & Iversen, Rasmus Birch (Red.), De dræbte krigere i Alken Enge. Efterkrigstidsritualer i ældre jernalder. Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab. ISSN 9788793423374. s. 209–226. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Moen, Marianne (2019). Hunting Identities: Intersectional Perspectives on Viking Age Mortuary Expressions. Fennoscandia Archaeologica. ISSN 0781-7126. XXXVI, s. 142–155. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2018). Personhood and Objecthood. I Varela, Sandra L Lopez (Red.), The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 9780470674611. doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0448. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2017). Connectedness with Things. Animated objects of Viking Age Scandinavia and in Early Medieval Europe. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 24(1), s. 89–108. doi: 10.1017/S1380203817000058. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Arwill-Nordbladh, Elisabeth (2016). Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age. European Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 1461-9571. 19(3), s. 415–438. doi: 10.1080/14619571.2016.1193979. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2015). Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels. Acta Borealia. ISSN 0800-3831. 32(1), s. 20–39. doi: 10.1080/08003831.2015.1029846. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2014). Viking Weapons in Irish Wetlands. I Sigurdsson, Jon Vidar & Bolton, Timothy Alexander (Red.), Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800 - 1200. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004255111. s. 171–186. doi: 10.1163/9789004255128_011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2013). Fragments of a conversion: handling bodies and objects in pagan and Christian Scandinavia AD 800–1100. World archaeology. ISSN 0043-8243. 45(1), s. 46–63. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2012.759511. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2012). Fra tjeklister til praksiser - nye perspektiver på hedendom og kristendom. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. s. 5–12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). Heads and Tails - Minds and Bodies: Reconsidering the Late Bronze Age Vestby Hoard in Light of Symbolist and Body Perspectives. European Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 1461-9571. 14(3), s. 441–464. doi: 10.1179/146195711798356692. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2010). At the Water's Edge. I Carver, Martin; Semple, Sarah & Sanmark, Alex (Red.), Signals of Belief in Early England. Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842173954. s. 49–66. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Lund, Julie (2009). Med hode og kropp - en nytolkning av Vestby-funnet i lys av symbol- og kroppsperspektiver. I Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (Red.), Håndverk og produksjon. Et møte mellom ulike perspektiver. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274773844. s. 11–40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (2008). Preface. I Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (Red.), Facets of Archeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274773349. s. 5–9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2008). Hvem ringer klokkerne for? I Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (Red.), Facets of Archeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274773349. s. 497–508. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2008). Banks, Borders and Bodies of Water in a Viking Age Mentality. Journal of Wetland Archaeology. ISSN 1473-2971. 8, s. 51–70. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2007). Vikingetidens våbendeponeringer: ting finder sted. I Lyngstrøm, Henriette; Foss, Pernille & Storgaard, Birger (Red.), Specialer i forhistorisk arkæologi 2004-2005. SAXO-instituttet, Afdeling for Forhistorisk Arkæologi, Københavns Universitet. ISSN 9788789500096. s. 105–113. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2006). Vikingetidens værktøjskister i landskab og mytologi. Fornvännen. ISSN 0015-7813. 5, s. 323–341. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2005). Thresholds and Passages: The Meanings of Bridges and Crossings in the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages. I Quinn, Judy; Brink, Stefan & Hines, John (Red.), Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1. Brepols. ISSN 9782503515700. s. 109–135. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2004). Våben i vand: om deponeringer i vikingetiden. Kuml : Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab. ISSN 0454-6245. s. 197–221. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Andersen, Vivi Lena (2003). Borger og byrum - om en magtforhandling på byens torv i senmiddelalderen. Meta : Medeltidsarkeologisk tidskrift. ISSN 0348-7903. s. 3–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (1998). Combining culture historical theory with exhibition practice. Kontaktstencil. ISSN 0345-6498. 41, s. 64–69. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Lund, Julie (2026). Time and temporality in the Viking Age. An Archaeology of Reuse, Remembering, and Relations to the Past in the Past in Scandinavia, 750-1050 CE. Sidestone Press. ISBN 9789464264395. doi: 10.59641/t2w8q9r0s1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This publication reveals intricate relationships between the Viking Age and its pasts. The book explores previous studies of the past in the past and their theoretical foundations, drawing on relationality, materiality, and affectivity as productive ways of moving the field forward. Three case studies examine the use of the past in the raising of ship settings in the Viking Age, the presence of antiquities and references to the past in Viking Age hoards, and the use of kerbstones as references to a specific past. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between social memory and reuse in the past. It demonstrates how active engagement with the past was integral to social identities and self-perceptions. The analyses of the archaeological record point to some of the mechanisms through which the past was appropriated, altered, and integrated into Viking Age practices. The analysis underscores the political dimensions of memory, challenging established preconceptions of reuse as automatically being conducted to legitimise power relations. The study thus provides a nuanced lens through which to examine how Viking Age inhabitants conceptualised and utilised their temporal realities. By recognising the relational nature of pasts and their materials, the publication re-evaluates Viking Age society, underlining the relevance of collective memory in shaping identity and social relations across temporal boundaries. More than anything, it shows how uses of the past were varied and diverse practices in Viking Age society.

• Lund, Julie & Semple, Sarah (2021). A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age. A Cultural History of Objects, Volume 2. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474298681. 272 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2009). Håndverk og produksjon. Et møte mellom ulike perspektiver. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274773844. 198 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (2008). Facets of Archeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274773349. 599 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Lund, Julie (2026). Time and Temporality in the Viking Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furholt, Martin & Lund, Julie (2026). Towards a People's Prehistory of European Bronze and Viking Ages. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2025). Searching for Social Relations in the Viking Age. (How) Can Studies of Social Identities, Personhood and Social Organisation be linked? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spangen, Marte; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Glørstad, Håkon; Melheim, Anne Lene; Solheim, Steinar & Lund, Julie (2025). Hvorfor vil Trump styre fortiden? s. 15–15. doi: https:/eavis.dagsavisen.no/p/dagsavisen/10-09-2025/r/8/14-15/6366/1993129. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spangen, Marte; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Glørstad, Håkon; Lund, Julie; Melheim, Anne Lene & Solheim, Steinar (2025). Livsfarlige tider for vår felles hukommelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2024). A Future for Scandinavian Archaeology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2023). Memory and Loss. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2023). Affected by the Past in the Past. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2023). Memory in Viking Age Materiality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2023). Connections to the Landscape in Early Medieval Scandinavia. Magic and Monotheism in the North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2023). Politics of Commemoration in Viking Age Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Heide, Eldar & Lund, Julie (2022). 7. Ofringar i myrar og vatn. Samtale med arkeolog Julie Lund. [Radio]. Podkasten Tru og meiningi gammal tid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2022). Forbindelser til fortiden i vikingetidens Skandinavien. Relationelle perspektiver på genbrug, reference og genopdagelser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2022). Affected by the Past in the Viking Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2022). Connecting to Pasts in Viking Age Scandinavia. Relational perspectives on Reuses, References and Reinventions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2021). Creating Relations through Time in Viking Age Societies. Using Pasts in the Past. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2021). Creating Relations through Time and Synchronising Pasts in Viking Age Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2019). Kerbing Relations. Affecting By Using Pasts. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2018). On temporality and the withdrawal of inalienable valuables. The Vestby hoard revisited. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2018). Time and Temporality: Viking Age Scandinavia as a Renaissance? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2018). Plenar discussion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2016). Relating to Pasts and Creating Places of Commemoration in Viking Age Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2015). The Connotations of Wetlands in the Viking Worlds. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2014). Converting Ideas of the Body. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2014). Animated objects of the Viking Age – and some Christian parallels. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2012). Fragmenter og helheder i kristningsprocessen i Skandinavien. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2011). Looking for something particular? In search of heirlooms in graves, poetry and sagas. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2011). Vikingetid som historisk arkæologi – med fokus på landskabsanalytiske og genstandsbiografiske perspektiver. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2011). Vikingetidens verdensopfattelser og forestillinger om det hinsides – belyst gennem historisk arkæologisk metode. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2011). Sværdet i søen - rituelle nedlæggelser af våben i vikingetid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2011). Sværdet i søen og sværdet i graven - om våbnenes betydninger i vikingetiden. Frá haug ok heiðni. ISSN 0015-9255. s. 41–45. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Book review of Eva S. Thäte. Monuments and minds: monument re-use in Scandinavia in the second half of the first millennium AD (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series in quarto 27). xiv+338 pages, 35 illustrations, 15 tables, CD-ROM. 2007. Lund: Acta Archaeologica Lundensia; 91-89578-04-X hardback. Antiquity. ISSN 0003-598X. 83(322), s. 1211–1212. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Om ting og tekster. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Monuments and minds: monument re-use in Scandinavia in the second half of the first millennium AD. Antiquity. ISSN 0003-598X. 83(322), s. 1211–1212. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Relations between the Living and the Dead in the Late Iron Age and Viking Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Wading Places: The meanings of waters in a Viking Age mentality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2008). Over broen til dødsriget? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2008). Fra hedensk til kristen tro i et kulturlandskapsperspektiv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2008). Banks, borders and bodies of water. The Viking Age depositions in lakes in South Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2007). Crossing Waters - transforming landscapes through acts of depositions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2007). At flytte mening fra ting til sted. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Schülke, Almut (2007). Menneskenes og tingenes rejse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2006). Anmeldelse af S. Mäntylä (red): Rituals and relations. Studies on the society and material culture of the Baltic Finns. The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Humaniora 336, Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ. Helsinki 2005. Kuml : Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab. ISSN 0454-6245. s. 331–333. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2006). Håndverk og produksjon - sosiale og symbolske roller eller ubevidste kroppsteknikker? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2006). Landskab og mentalitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Lund, Julie (2006). Introduksjon til seminaret. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Formålet med seminaret er å debattere tendenser i forskningen på håndverk og produksjon i forhistoriske og historiske kontekster. Mye arkeologisk og annen humanistisk forskning beskjeftiger seg i dag med teknologi, produksjon og håndverkerens rolle, men det er uklart om de fører den samme diskusjonen. Studier av håndverk og produksjon synes å bevege seg i (minst) to ulike retninger. Dels dreier det seg om perspektiver basert på intensjonalitet og struktur, med fokus på sosiale, symbolske og kosmologiske sider, dels om perspektiver med vekt på det ubevisste og ikke-intensjonelle, der forholdet mellom kropp, materiale og omgivelser står i sentrum. Spørsmålet er om disse to perspektivene kan forenes, eller om man i virkeligheten undersøker forskjellige fenomener.

• Lund, Julie (2005). Anmeldelse af Frederik Svanberg: Decolinizing the Viking Age 1 og 2. Kuml : Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab. ISSN 0454-6245. s. 54–57. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2005). Våbendeponeringer i vikingetid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2003). Anmeldelse af Carlberg, N. & Møller Christensen, S. (red.): Kulturmiljø - mellem forskning og politisk praksis. Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. s. 37–39. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Julie (2009). Åsted og vadested. Deponeringer, genstandsbiografier og rumlig strukturering som kilde til vikingetidens kognitive landskaber. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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