Odin, Thor and Freyja: Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millennium AD and the Frankish Realm
Odin, Thor and Freyja: Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millennium AD and the Frankish Realm
Odin, Thor and Freyja: Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millennium AD and the Frankish Realm - Odin, Thor and Freyja: Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millennium AD and the Frankish Realm
With the exhibition "Odin, Thor and Freyja. Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millennium AD and the Frankish Realm " the Kulturfonds is supporting a wide-ranging international co I lab oration. It is a joint project by the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt and the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. Exhibits from three archaeological sites in southern Denmark a re presented and compared with early medieval findings from Frankish royal courts and palaces of the Rhine-Main region (namely the Kaiserpfalzen of Frankfurt and Ingelheim). The exhibition therefore has a particular significance for the Frankfurt area.
It seems that the architectural combination of Merovingian and Caro ling ian stately palaces with magnificent sacred buildings (palace churches, memorials, burial grounds) presented a model for the development of similar structures in the North. The personal contact between Scandinavian elites and the Frankish nobility in our region is illustrated in the exhibit ion thro ugh the rich double child burial from 700/730 AD beneath Frankfurt Cathedral, in which a Frankish and a Scandinavian child had been buried side by side. In Ingelheim the Danish King Harald Halfdansson was baptized in 826 and swore fealty as a vassal, here isalso where the miss ion of Scandinavia was launched that very same year.
