[gothic-l] Exhibition on the Vandals, Vaernamo in Vaerend, Sweden

[Bertil Häggman]

An interesting miniature is shown, *Uscita dei
Winilii dalla Scandinavia guidate da Gambara
e dai figli Ibor e Aio' from Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana. This of course
is also a connection to the Scanian
Lombards, Gambara being the mother
of Ibor and Aio.

Another important object shown in Vaernamo
is the famous Gelimer bowl from BNF in Paris, France.

Having received a CD with picture material
from the Vaernamo exhibition I have not yet had time
to look at it. For a detailed look at the artefacts
and their relation to theVandals you would have
to visit the exhibition in Vaernamo at the Konstarkivet there,
open Monday to Friday 11 am to 6 pm and Saturday
Sunday noon - 5 p.m.

You can also purchase the book _Den sanna
historien om Vandalerna_. The basic theory in that book (201 pages)
is that the Vandal people migrated from Scandinavia
(Vendel in Uppland, Vaerend in Smaaland Province
of Sweden or Vendsyssel on Jutland) and that some returned
to settle on the northern coast of Germany (Vendland
=Pomerania).

A memorial tablet from Rome on Queen Christina
of Sweden has the text "Christinae - Svecorum
Gotthorum et Vandalorum Reginae".

As this is a Gothic list I don't want to prolong this
discussion on the Vandals.

Midsommarafton 2001

Bertil





I would like to know what sort of artefacts are on display in the
exhibition. For example, there is a Vandalic exhibition in the British
Museum, which shows artifacts from North Africa, but states that there
is no way of knowing whether they are really Vandalic/Alanic, but have
been tentatively attributed on the basis of their 'barbaric'
appearance. So does this exhibition identify anything 'typical'
Vandalic in style or manufacture?

In Europe, the only artefacts that could be called Vandalic are those
found in the context of the Oder/Warthe/Przeworks culture. But this
culture included several tribes and it covered a large area. Does this
exhibition include any Przeworsk objects, perhaps with new insights
about the development and spread of this group? The title of the book,
i.e. 'the true history of the Vandals...' is intriguing and I will try
to get it myself, but can I ask what distinguishes this history from
other historical accounts, which makes it the 'true history'?




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