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Död och begraven : en analys av de avrättades behandling på galgbacken / Dead and burried : an investigation of the treatment of executed people burried at the gallows

<p>This paper concerns the treatment of people at execution places and it is focusing on Gotland and the execution place called Galgberget. The material in the paper comes from Galgberget and a gallow in Denmark called Slots Bjergby. Together with this the laws of Gotland during the medieval and later periods are discussed and also how the archaeological material (especially the buttons) found on the excavation site can help to understand the people buried on the gallow site. The result of the analysis shows that the laws and the material found on the excavation site often tells different things. The punishments are often softer then what the law says. The material is also suggesting that it was possible to gain a better place on the execution site and that the many execution places in Visby were used for different kinds of punishments.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hgo-614
Date January 2010
CreatorsAndersson, Sara
PublisherGotland University, School of Culture, Energy and Environment
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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