The paper explores a group of graves in which the past was used actively in Viking Age eastern Norway. Studying the use of the past in the past was introduced in British landscape archaeology of the 1990s, but a reassessment and a renewed relevance of the theme may now be observed due to the rise of materiality studies and the affective turn within archaeology. Through an investigation of the apparently insignificant kerbstones on a number of Viking Age burial mounds in Eastern Norway, and their links to specific Roman period mounds and graves, the paper explores how time and the past were perceived in the Viking Age. This further opens potential for examining connections between the use of the past and identities and self-perceptions in a Viking Age society. The analysis also includes a movement away from understanding reuse merely as a means of power. The overall ambition is to demonstrate the relevance of studies of the past in the past in archaeology today.

该论文探讨了挪威东部维京时代积极使用过去的一组坟墓。在 1990 年代的英国景观考古学中引入了研究过去的使用，但由于物质性研究的兴起和考古学中的情感转向，现在可以观察到对该主题的重新评估和新的相关性。通过对挪威东部一些维京时代墓葬上明显微不足道的路缘石的调查，以及它们与特定罗马时期土墩和坟墓的联系，本文探讨了维京时代是如何看待时间和过去的。这进一步打开了研究维京时代社会中过去的使用与身份和自我认知之间的联系的潜力。该分析还包括不再将重用仅仅理解为一种权力手段。总体目标是展示过去研究在当今考古学中的相关性。