They also registered all the finds, which meant making a list and a description of each object collected from the excavation. Architects measured and drew all of the buildings and other architectural elements uncovered in the various time periods. Artists drew the pottery and other small finds, and photographers documented these, as well as the excavation layers as they were uncovered and the architecture [...] special attention was paid to washing them, and restoring them when possible, and recording them in drawings and photographs. Harald Ingholt together with a worker, who is sorting finds, 1938. Men
gods like Thor and Odin. In this way both religious beliefs could exist alongside each other. One religion did not exclude the other. This is shown by the find of a mould, which the smith could use [...] footing without the old belief being completely abandoned. Instead, it was reinterpreted and incorporated into the new Christian faith. The old belief also survived in popular folk beliefs. Here we find [...] of these would be favourably disposed when required. For example, the Icelandic book Landnambók about Helge den Magre (Helge “the Lean”) describes how, although Helge believed in Christ, when at sea or in a particularly
descriptions of a blót sacrifice in the North can be found in Hakon the Good’s Saga, which was written by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the 1200s. Sigurd Håkonsson, like his father, frequently made [...] finds show that völur or seeresses existed. These were women with magical and prophetic powers. In the sagas and on rune stones great men are also mentioned known as “Goder”, or heathen priests,
