Julie Lund is Associate Professor at the Department of Archeology, Conservation and History of the University of Oslo.
She completed her PhD in archeology (2009) at the University of Oslo.
Her research interests include the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages of Scandinavia. In her research she uses historical archaeological method, exploring the interplay between material, culture, and text, particularly in the Old Norse written sources.
Julie Lund has worked on the acts of wetland depositions in the Viking Age and on the layers of meaning related to the cognitive landscape of the Viking Age; in her current research she focuses on diverging concepts of personhood and ideas of corporality in Pagan and Christian Scandinavia, and on varying ways of relating to the past or to pasts, -that is, fundamental aspects of ontology. These perspectives are based on landscape analyses, on the studies of graves, including locations of grave yards, ship settings and burial mounds, on the use of heirlooms, and the relationship between wholeness and fragmentation in the burial customs, on the deposition of artefacts and on the relations between the inscriptions, choice of location and the materiality of rune stones from Scandinavia 700-1150 CE.
She is the project leader on “Using the Past in the Past. Viking Age Scandinavia as a Renaissance?” financed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) as Young Researcher Talent, 2016-2021.
Her recent publications include:
- Lund, Julie & Semple, Sarah (eds.) in press A Cultural History of Objects. Volume 2, 400-1400 AD. Bloomsbury
- Lund, Julie (2020). Rune Stones as Material Relations in Late Pagan and Early Christian Scandinavia. Danish Journal of Archaeology 9, pp. 1- 20
- Lund, Julie (2017). Connectedness with Things. Animated objects of Viking Age Scandinavia and in Early Medieval Europe. Archaeological Dialogues 24(1), pp. 89- 108
- Lund, Julie & Arwill-Nordbladh, Elisabeth (2016). Divergent Ways of Relating to the Past in the Viking Age. European Journal of Archaeology 19(3), pp. 415-438