期刊名称：Fornvännen: Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research
印刷版ISSN：0015-7813
电子版ISSN：1404-9430
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
页码：119-122
出版社：Almqvist & Wiksell
摘要：At aristocratic manor sites of the Vendel Period
in Scandinavia, minuscule gold foil figures are
found, guldgubbar (Lamm 2004 w. refs; Watt
2004 w. refs). They are embossed with images of
men and women; usually singly, sometimes pair -
wise, embracing and kissing. When found in
situ, they are often associated with the posts
carry ing the roof of the mead hall, venue of cultic
feasts and political summits. (For a parti -
cular ly fine example from Uppåkra in Scania,
where the building appears to have been a temple
rather than a mead hall, see Larsson 2004;
2007.) The images have been interpreted as gods
or heroes, the embracing pairs as mythical
divine ancestors of royal lineages, perhaps the
god Freyr and his chaos-giant wife Gerd (Steinsland
1991). The latest major additions to the lite -
rature on this artefact category are Mannering
2006 and Back Danielsson 2007.
