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This volume is the first to collect climate histories from across all the Nordic countries. It combines research from climatologists, historians, archaeologists and museologists to explore how climate and culture interacted in the past and what we might learn from these interactions today.
Down the centuries, the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability and change and sought ways to survive and adapt. In a time of accelerating global warming, these climate histories take on new contemporary significance. Drawing on tools from the natural and historical sciences, the innovative scholarship in this volume addresses questions such as: How did Nordic societies cope with past climatic hazards? What was the historical significance of the 'Little Ice Age' or the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' for Nordic countries? And how do we study, narrate and learn from these past experiences?
This volume is the first to collect climate histories from across all the Nordic countries. It combines research from climatologists, historians, archaeologists and museologists to explore how climate and culture interacted in the past and what we might learn from these interactions today.
The chapters range from in-depth case studies to reflexive meta-histories; cover periods from the Bronze Age to the present; and draw on sources from tree rings to material culture to poetry. They also discuss how these histories can be communicated today, including how museums and literature can bring them into conversation with a current audience looking for lived experiences of climate adaptation.
The volume was conceived during an international conference at the University of Oslo in May 2024. This interdisciplinary forum connected leading scholars in the field with practitioners and stakeholders. The essays presented here engage a rapidly growing field of intense public and political concern in the Nordics and beyond.
The book speaks to various academic communities (climatology, history, literature) and stakeholders (museum practitioners, climate communicators and advocates). It includes the growing research and student community invested in this topic across several disciplines, practitioners and communicators in the field and the wider public interested in the vibrant debates about climate adaptation and experience.
Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction: Integrating, Connecting and Narrating Nordic Climate Histories
Dominik Collet, Ingar Morkestol Gundersen, Heli Huhtamaa, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Astrid E.J. Ogilvie and Sam White
Chapter 1. The Development of Meteorological Institutions and Early Instrumental Climate Data in the Nordic Countries
Elin Lundstad, Stefan Norrgard and A.E.J. Ogilvie
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CLIMATE
Chapter 2. Cold or Culture? Effects of Mid-Holocene Temperatures on Forager and Early Farmer Demographics in Southern Norway
Svein Vatsvag Nielsen
Chapter 3. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Two Central Norwegian Settlements Facing the Climatic Downturn after ad536-540
Ingrid Ystgaard and Raymond Sauvage
Chapter 4. Volcanic Vulnerability in Medieval Iceland
Carina Damm
Chapter 5. The Moving Manors and Adaptation in Sixteenth Century Denmark
Sarah Kerr
Chapter 6. Architectural Climate Change Adaptions in Little Ice Age Norway c. 1300-1550
Kristian Reinfjord
LITTLE ICE AGE CLIMATE
Chapter 7. The Impact of Wildfire and Climate on the Resilience and Vulnerability of Peasant Communities in Seventeenth-Century Finland
Jakob Starlander
Chapter 8. Northern Iceland Temperature Variations and Sea-Ice Incidence c. ad 1600-1850
A.E.J. Ogilvie and M.W. Miles
Chapter 9. Integrating Agricultural Vulnerability and Climate Extremes. Eighteenth-century Norway through the Works of Jacob Nicolaj Wilse (1735-1801)
Ingar Morkestol Gundersen
Chapter 10. An Ice Breakup as in the Good Old Days'. Ice Jams in the Aura River, Turku, Southwest Finland, 1739-2024
Stefan Norrgard
NARRATING CLIMATE HISTORIES
Chapter 11. Climate Narratives in Norwegian Public Histories
Eivind Heldaas Seland
Chapter 12. Glacier Poetry in Norwegian Literary Historiography
Kristine Kleveland
Chapter 13. Through a Mirror, Darkly: Bringing Deep Environmental History into the Museum
Felix Riede
Chapter 14. Back to the Future: Weaving Climate History into Nordic National Museum Narratives
Natalia Melo, Bergsveinn THorsson, Felix Riede and Stefan Norrgard
