This article presents some of the earliest rock art documentation known from northern Europe. Johannes Haquini Rhezelius produced it on an antiquarian journey to Öland and Småland in 1634. Compared with the Norwegian Peder Alfsøn’s documentation from seven years previously in northern Bohuslän, then a part of Norway, there are differences and similarities. Both men drew by eye with ink, Alfsøn then embellishing his images with watercolours. Neither used any scalemeasurements. Rhezelius's informants did not seem to preserve any pre-Christian ideas about figurative rock art. They associated it with legends and stories sprung fromaChristian culture;with giants, maidens and church-burglars. Folklore associated cupmarks with elfs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-11140 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Goldhahn, Joakim |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, Stockholm |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Fornvännen, 0015-7813, 2011, 106:1, s. 1-7 |
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