New Book from the Viking Ship Museum
Olaf Olsen, Jan Skamby Madsen and Flemming Rieck (eds.): Shipshape,
Essays for Ole Crumlin-Pedersen on the occasion of his 60th anniversary,
February 24 1995
Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 1995.
334 pages, ill. Price DKK 350.
This book, written as a salute to Ole Crumlin-Pedersen on his
60th birthday, contains 28 articles dealing with much of the field
covered by maritime archaeologists and historians in Northern
Europe today: Ship archaeology, preservation of historic sites
on the seabed, interpretation of historic sources for seafaring
in the past, and much else besides. Several articles present finds
and sources which have not previously been published, while others
take up well-known material for reconsideration The book is richly
illustrated and in addition to a list of Ole Crumlin-Pedersen's
publications it contains the following articles:
- Flemming Rieck: Institute of Maritime Archaeology - the
beginning of maritime research in Denmark.
- Jan Skamby Madsen: The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde.
- Jørgen Josephsen: To Ole: a personal account.
- Basil Greenhill: The Graveney Boat- an exercise in Anglo-Danish
collaboration.
- Arne Emil Christensen: Boat fragments from Mangersnes
- William Filmer-Sankey & Tim Pestell: The Snape logboats:
Excavation, construction and performance.
- Michael Müller-Wille: Two early medieval sites near
Wismar and Rostock at the southern Baltic Coast.
- Gillian Hutchinson: Two English siderudders.
- Niels Bonde & Jørgen Steen Jensen: The dating
of a Hanseatic cogfind in Denmark - what coins and tree rings
can reveal in maritime archaeology.
- Per U. Hörberg: Nuts, Bricks and Pewter - preliminary
notes on three new shipfinds in Scania, Sweden.
- Harry Alopaeus: Aspects of the Lapuri find.
- Jerzy Litwin: The Puck Bay wrecks - an opportunity for
a "Polish Skuldelev".
- Olaf Olsen: Malma - a medieval harbour-town without a harbour.
- Peter Marsden: Early ships, boats and ports in Britain.
- Niels-Knud Liebgott: A ship and its cargo.
- Björn Varenius: The Baltic itinerary of Codex Holmiensis
A 41, a contextual approach.
- Jan Bill: Getting into business - Reflections of a market
economy in medieval Scandinavian shipbuilding.
- Torsten Edgren: "De Aspø usque Ørsund.vi.Inde
usque Hangethe.- iij..." - An archaeological research project
concerning one of the harbours in Finland's south-western archipelago
referred to in "the Danish itinerary".
- Christer Westerdahl: Traditional zones of transport geography
in relation to ship-types.
- Detlev Ellmers: Crew structure on board Scandinavian vessels.
- Sibylla Haasum: Ship grafitti in the medieval churches
of Gotland.
- Erik Andersen: Square sails of wool.
- Jon Bojer Godal: The use of wood in boatbuilding.
- Honor Frost: Where did the Carthaginians see clinkers?
- Max Vinner: A Viking ship off Cape Farewell 1984.
- Martin O. Carver: On - and off - the Edda.
- Thijs J. Maarleveld: Environment factors in undenwater
heritage management. A reflection on the Dutch situation.
- Sean McGrail: Training maritime archaeologists.
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