![]() ![]() The Early Saxon shield has the same basic form as the shields in Danish and North German bog deposits: a flat circular board of small to medium size, made up of several planks set side by side, and fitted with an iron boss and grip. The origins of the Anglo-Saxon shield are to be found in the Roman Iron Age on the Continent. This has resulted in a division between five possible types of owners/users of the lyre: The professional scop/skáld, the continental elite, the Anglo-Saxon elite, the clergyman and the individual from a lower social standing. ![]() They have been compared in terms of find context, state of the find, construction of the lyre, materials used, position in the grave, other grave goods and burial structure, considering also similarities and differences in space and time. 500-1200 have been included from graves and cultural layers, stretching over central and northern Europe. Instead of focusing solely on the object, the instrument will be used to get a glimpse of the person behind it, i.e. This master’s thesis ties together individual finds of the Germanic round-lyre to create a comparative study, in which the main focus is set on their context. New discoveries, too, are very object-oriented. ![]() The new awareness initially led to studies centred on retrieving musical instruments that had been missed and were now lost in archives. ![]() Prehistorical musical instruments have been explored in archaeology more systematically since the 1970s when music archaeology was established as a field of study. ![]()
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