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  Vol. 121 No. 1 (2026)

  Fornvännen 121:1 presents a multidisciplinary study of pottery from Dalarna, which shows that the craft appeared during the Neolithic but then disappeared for another 2000 years. Finds made at "King Øystein's Harbour" in Agdenes, Noway, reveals aspects of the importance of the town during the Viking Age. The journals of Johanna Mestorf throws light on the work of a prominent female Academic in the 19th Century, and her introduction of the Three Age system at Kiel Museum. Short reports on osteological analysis of three skeletons in a Mesolithic grave with signs of violence, an atypical chape from a Viking Age sword scabbard found on Gotland, a 3D reconstruction of an Iron Age hillfort, and an AI application for predicitive modelling of where it is most likely to find rock art in the Mälar Valley. Reviews of "Nonnebakken: Odenses vikingeborg" and "Fra vikingetid til Valdemarstid: Danmark 950–1200".

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  Vol. 121 No. 2 (2026)

  Fornvännen 121:2 presents the unusual find of a leather shoe from Early Roman Iron Age in Sweden, as well as several other interesting finds from a previously excavated cairn having been re-examined. A new interpretation of the runic inscriptions on the Sparlösa stone show parallels to the Rök stone. Researchers have used ground-penetrating radar to reveal previously unknown burial mounds at the Viking Age site Birka. A closer study of over 100 Viking Age silver coins found around Sigtuna reveals some of them were used for silver craft in the town. In the short reports it is shown that the Neolithic hunter-gatherers of Gotland suffered from foot troubles, partly due to genetics. And a small Medieval pilgrim badge of the Virgin Mary found in Finland shows the areas connection to Livonia in the Baltic at that time. Reviews of ”Händelser ur Sveriges ohistoria”, ”Reconsidering Raseborg”, and ”Documenting Activism, Creating Change: Archaeology and the Legacy of #MeToo”.