Persons - Institutions - Contact
Contact If you have any questions regarding the project and the online edition/database, please feel free to contact us. We are also very grateful for suggestions, tips for improvement or information about possible still unregistered picture stones and unnoticed archive material. Please contact the project manager Sigmund Oehrl, who will be happy to answer your message or forward it to the person responsible: sigmund.oehrl@uis.no
Project team
Anders Andrén, researcher, author (Stockholms universitet) anders.andren@ark.su.se
Mike Fergusson, 3D expert (Viospatia) fergusson.michael@gmail.com
Michaela Helmbrecht, researcher, editor, author (archäotext, Munich) michaela.helmbrecht@archaeotext.de
Henrik Jansson, IT expert (Gotlands Museum Visby) henrik@gotlandsmuseum.se
Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, researcher, author (RAÄ Stockholm) laila.kitzler.ahfeldt@raa.se
Cecilia Ljung, researcher (in project “Perceptions of a Pagan Past”), author (Uppsala university) cecilia.ljung@arkeologi.uu.se
Sigmund Oehrl, Principal investigator, Ancient Images 2.0 project manager, researcher, main editor, author (Universitetet i Stavanger) sigmund.oehrl@uis.no
Karin Stenström, archaeologist, IT assistant (Gotlands Museum Visby) karin.stenstrom@gotlandsmuseum.se
Per Widerström, researcher, field worker (Gotlands Museum Visby) per.widerstrom@gotlandsmuseum.se
PhD Projects
Lukas Albrecht (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Insular influence and the „image grammar“ of the Gotlandic picture stones. An art-historical investigation l.m.albrecht@icloud.com Supervisor: Sigmund Oehrl
Patrick Hänsel (Erlangen/Nuremberg University, FAU, DFG project): Type and origin of Gotlandic picture stones' raw material and their implications concerning craft and manufacture. A combined geological and archaeological study patrick.haensel@fau.de Supervisors: Axel Munnecke, Sigmund Oehrl
Gregor Hellweg (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Image and artefact. Vendel- and Viking Period material culture depicted on Gotlandic picture stones gregor.hellweg@freenet.de Supervisor: Sigmund Oehrl
Hannah Strehlau (Kiel University, CAU/ZBSA, Schleswig): The Origins of the early Gotlandic picture stones. A study on Migration Period stone monuments and their parallels in the Roman Provinces hannahc.strehlau@googlemail.com Supervisors: Alexandra Pesch, Sigmund Oehrl
Students involved
Cherie Larkin (Uppsala/Visby), Master thesis: A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered: An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones
Caroline Wilhelmsson (University of Aberdeen): Internship January through December 2020, Erasmus programme
Reference Group
Sally Foster (University of Stirling) Lisbeth Imer (National Museum Copenhagen) Magnus Källström (RAÄ, Stockholm)
Alexandra Pesch (LEIZA/ZBSA, Schleswig)
Peter Skoglund (Linnaeus University)
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonsson (Uppsala University)
Translations
Dirk Steinforth (InkAnt Arts Übersetzungen und Lektorat, Göttingen)
English language advisor: Nancy Wicker (The University of Mississippi) Dirk Steinforth made a complete translation of Sune Lindqvist’s edition Gotlands Bildsteine. This translation focussed on consistency and accuracy of terms. It is available for download in the bibliography [link].
The individual authors’ texts were revised free of charge by Nancy Wicker, The University of Mississippi, to make the texts more user-friendly and accurate in terms of wording.
Web and Project Design
Nicolas Karlborg (Stockholm University)
Anders Andrén, researcher, author (Stockholms universitet) anders.andren@ark.su.se
Mike Fergusson, 3D expert (Viospatia) fergusson.michael@gmail.com
Michaela Helmbrecht, researcher, editor, author (archäotext, Munich) michaela.helmbrecht@archaeotext.de
Henrik Jansson, IT expert (Gotlands Museum Visby) henrik@gotlandsmuseum.se
Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, researcher, author (RAÄ Stockholm) laila.kitzler.ahfeldt@raa.se
Cecilia Ljung, researcher (in project “Perceptions of a Pagan Past”), author (Uppsala university) cecilia.ljung@arkeologi.uu.se
Sigmund Oehrl, Principal investigator, Ancient Images 2.0 project manager, researcher, main editor, author (Universitetet i Stavanger) sigmund.oehrl@uis.no
Karin Stenström, archaeologist, IT assistant (Gotlands Museum Visby) karin.stenstrom@gotlandsmuseum.se
Per Widerström, researcher, field worker (Gotlands Museum Visby) per.widerstrom@gotlandsmuseum.se
PhD Projects
Lukas Albrecht (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Insular influence and the „image grammar“ of the Gotlandic picture stones. An art-historical investigation l.m.albrecht@icloud.com Supervisor: Sigmund Oehrl
Patrick Hänsel (Erlangen/Nuremberg University, FAU, DFG project): Type and origin of Gotlandic picture stones' raw material and their implications concerning craft and manufacture. A combined geological and archaeological study patrick.haensel@fau.de Supervisors: Axel Munnecke, Sigmund Oehrl
Gregor Hellweg (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Image and artefact. Vendel- and Viking Period material culture depicted on Gotlandic picture stones gregor.hellweg@freenet.de Supervisor: Sigmund Oehrl
Hannah Strehlau (Kiel University, CAU/ZBSA, Schleswig): The Origins of the early Gotlandic picture stones. A study on Migration Period stone monuments and their parallels in the Roman Provinces hannahc.strehlau@googlemail.com Supervisors: Alexandra Pesch, Sigmund Oehrl
Students involved
Cherie Larkin (Uppsala/Visby), Master thesis: A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered: An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones
Caroline Wilhelmsson (University of Aberdeen): Internship January through December 2020, Erasmus programme
Reference Group
Sally Foster (University of Stirling) Lisbeth Imer (National Museum Copenhagen) Magnus Källström (RAÄ, Stockholm)
Alexandra Pesch (LEIZA/ZBSA, Schleswig)
Peter Skoglund (Linnaeus University)
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonsson (Uppsala University)
Translations
Dirk Steinforth (InkAnt Arts Übersetzungen und Lektorat, Göttingen)
English language advisor: Nancy Wicker (The University of Mississippi) Dirk Steinforth made a complete translation of Sune Lindqvist’s edition Gotlands Bildsteine. This translation focussed on consistency and accuracy of terms. It is available for download in the bibliography [link].
The individual authors’ texts were revised free of charge by Nancy Wicker, The University of Mississippi, to make the texts more user-friendly and accurate in terms of wording.
Web and Project Design
Nicolas Karlborg (Stockholm University)
In grateful memory of Jan Peder Lamm († 2020), who lay the foundation for this project. He keenly followed the project’s early steps and gave invaluable advice. We believe that he would have been glad to see this corpus published.