Nowhere is this better expressed than in the annual and successful tværfaglige Vikingesymposium, of which she is one of the most influential organisers, or in the foundation of the Aarhus Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies. She is, for example, proud of the fact that at Skuldelev she found the beautiful stem of Wreck 3.Ĭoncentrating on the Viking Age she became, through such outlets as the Viking Congress, party to an innovative critical interdisciplin ary approach to the period. At home she took part in many other excavations. The dig excited her sense of adventure and stimulated her to travel in India, Afghanistan, Iran and Egypt, developing an interest in pottery and glass originally in stilled by her father, a learned collector. The three seasons she spent there deeply influenced her development as an archaeologist and scholar. Although she studied in Copenhagen, she returned to Jutl and with her husband, Erich Lange, in 1970, and soon became firmly established in Aarhus University.Īs a student (and later as a postgraduate) she took par t in P.V. This was the foundation of a friendship which spans her professional career.Įlse was born on Als and her sense of history and her fierce in dependence is based in the background of her family, which was deeply involved in the politics of Sønderjylland after 1864. L first met Else Roesdahl in 1969, when, newly graduated, she was working as an assistant in the National Museum. Else Roesdahl Resumé Else Roesdahl reaches 60
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