11 Jun 2008
Fifty years with the Cult Site of Rösaring

A link to this wonderful article detailing some of the practices associated with Vanic deities in the Viking Age (and before) came in from an email list the other day. It seems as though Tacitus was pretty dead on. Enjoy!

The cult site of Rösaring is located high on a glacial ridge some 40 kilometres northwest of Stockholm, in the municipality of Upplands-Bro. It has ancient cairns and a stone labyrinth, together with what makes this site like no other in Sweden - a well-made roadway running north south along the ridge for over half a kilometre. A single carbon dating at one end of the road points to the Viking Age. The site provides the best setting yet discovered for fertility rites and wagon ceremonies as described by the Roman writer Tacitus for the goddess Nerthus.

(link) [Gotland University]

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