NDLI: Flax in Sweden: the archaeobotanical, archaeological and historical evidence

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Author	Viklund, Karin
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The earliest recorded evidence of flax being cultivated in Sweden is from the end of the Bronze Age/beginning of the Iron Age. Later, from ca. a.d. 1100 and onwards, flax became an economically important plant in the country, and during the 12th to 16th centuries there was a substantial increase in the Swedish export of linen to other parts of Europe. Alongside its extensive cultivation, a set of cultural traditions and rituals was eventually built up around flax. The objective of this article is to draw an outline of the history of flax cultivation in Sweden and to present the relevant prehistoric and historic source material. A point of discussion will be the different roles that fibre flax and oil flax played over a long period of time and the problem of seed corn import for the development of domestic fibre flax in the country. The study is based on the prehistoric archaeobotanical record, mainly charred seeds from the Swedish Iron Age (ca. 500 b.c.–a.d. 1050), the archaeological record, documentary evidence and folklore.
Starting Page	509
Ending Page	515
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09396314
Journal	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	16176278
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-10-18
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sweden Flax cultivation Archaeobotanical evidence Historical documents Flax in rituals Paleontology Anthropology Biogeosciences Climate Change Archaeology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Archeology (arts and humanities) Paleontology

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