caa a22 4500 445358904 CHVBK 20180317142909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00334-011-0325-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00334-011-0325-z Viklund Karin Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, University of Umeå, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut Flax in Sweden: the archaeobotanical, archaeological and historical evidence [Elektronische Daten] [Karin Viklund] The earliest recorded evidence of flax being cultivated in Sweden is from the end of the Bronze Age/beginning of the Iron Age. Later, from ca. a.d. 1100 and onwards, flax became an economically important plant in the country, and during the 12th to 16th centuries there was a substantial increase in the Swedish export of linen to other parts of Europe. Alongside its extensive cultivation, a set of cultural traditions and rituals was eventually built up around flax. The objective of this article is to draw an outline of the history of flax cultivation in Sweden and to present the relevant prehistoric and historic source material. A point of discussion will be the different roles that fibre flax and oil flax played over a long period of time and the problem of seed corn import for the development of domestic fibre flax in the country. The study is based on the prehistoric archaeobotanical record, mainly charred seeds from the Swedish Iron Age (ca. 500 b.c.-a.d. 1050), the archaeological record, documentary evidence and folklore. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Sweden nationallicence Flax cultivation nationallicence Archaeobotanical evidence nationallicence Historical documents nationallicence Flax in rituals nationallicence Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/6(2011-11-01), 509-515 0939-6314 20:6<509 2011 20 334 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0325-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0325-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Viklund Karin Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, University of Umeå, 90187, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/6(2011-11-01), 509-515 0939-6314 20:6<509 2011 20 334 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 11716433X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer