Birger Nerman was a Swedish archaeologist, historian and philologist who specialized in the history and culture of Iron Age Sweden.
Nerman in the 1920s
Royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala, where Nerman conducted much of his early research. In his studies of early Sweden, Nerman sought to combine archaeological evidence from Gamla Uppsala with evidence from Old English and Old Norse literature.
The Stora Hammars stone I of Gotland. Nerman is noted for his archaeological research on Iron Age Gotland.
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Birger Nerman
…in Die Verbindungen zwischen Skandinavien und dem Ostbaltikum in der jüngeren Eisenzeit (1929). He believed that Grobiņa had been founded as a Swedish/Gotlandic colony, and that it was identical to the town of Seeburg mentioned by Rimbert in Vita Ansgarii. Scandinavian burials examined by Nerman at Grobiņa have…
The Stora Hammars I stone
Axe of iron from Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland
Clay pot from Swedish Iron Age, found on Gotland