This article examines a small group of artefacts of the Viking Age that may have been perceived as animated objects. These specific weapons and pieces of jewellery appear in narratives in the Old Norse sources as named, as having a will of their own, as possessing personhood. In archaeological contexts the same types of artefact are handled categorically differently than the rest of the material culture. Further, the possible links between these perspectives and the role of animated objects in early medieval Christianity of the Carolingian Empire are examined through studies of the reopening of Reihengräber and the phenomenon offurta sacra. By linking studies of the social biographies of objects with studies of animism, the article aims to identify aspects of Viking Age ontology and its similarities to Carolingian Christianity.

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与事物的联系。维京时代斯堪的纳维亚和中世纪早期欧洲的动画对象

本文研究了维京时代的一小部分文物，这些文物可能被认为是动画物体。这些特定的武器和珠宝首饰出现在古诺尔斯语来源的叙述中，被命名为拥有自己的意志，拥有人格。在考古背景下，相同类型的人工制品的处理方式与其他物质文化的处理方式截然不同。此外，通过研究 Reihengräber 的重新开放和富塔萨克拉. 通过将物体的社会传记研究与万物有灵论研究联系起来，本文旨在确定维京时代本体论的各个方面及其与加洛林基督教的相似之处。