Culturally-Scandinavian graves with animal remains in some key cemeteries of the Rus' - a comparative analysis of animal depositions in relation to id

基于对维京海盗时代人与动物关系的重要性的背景研究，本项目旨在通过分析丧葬传统和习俗，特别是在东欧维京海盗定居点的一些关键墓地中，挪威人埋葬动物遗骸或缺乏动物遗骸的证据，来探索东部维京海盗世界的挪威人身份的区域差异和表现。这将与西方维京海盗人散居地（如不列颠群岛和冰岛）和斯堪的纳维亚本土的坟墓中的动物祭品进行比较。动物遗骸的存在或不存在将被用来讨论挪威人身份的谈判，以及斯堪的纳维亚埋葬习俗的翻译和适应到新的土地和新的社会政治背景，连接到迁移模式，身份形成和文化接触动态。

Building on background research on the importance of human-animal relationships in the Viking Age, this project aims toexplore the regional differences and manifestations of Norse identity in the eastern Viking world through an analysis ofmortuary traditions and practices, and specifically the evidence for Norse burials with animal remains - or lack thereof - insome key burial grounds of the Viking settlement in Eastern Europe. This will be compared to the evidence of animalofferings in graves in the territories of the western Viking diaspora (e.g. the British Isles and Iceland), and within theScandinavian homeland itself. The presence - or absence - of animal remains will be used to discuss the negotiation ofNorse identities as well as the translation and adaptation of Scandinavian burial customs into new lands and new sociopolitical contexts, as connected to migration patterns, identity formation and culture contact dynamics.