Martin Rundkvist

The Swedish province of Östergötland is one of Scandinavia's breadbaskets, with an archaeological and historical record that speaks of great wealth through the ages. The province has long been recognised as one of the first millennium's political hot spots. Splendid single finds, though never before surveyed comprehensively, offer a rough idea of where elite settlements might be sought. But little

ON 21 APRIL 2006 a round-table seminar took place at the premises of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm. The occasion was Fornvännen’s centenary, and the theme was the current status and future prospects of this kind of scholarly journal. This volume is a collection of nine papers by participants in the seminar. The main themes are the shift from paper to on