Dr. Kjetil Loftsgarden

Kjetil Loftsgarden is an associate professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His main area of expertise is iron and iron production, trade, meeting- and marketplaces, as well as the societal consequences of climatic and environmental changes in Iron Age Scandinavia. He is currently leader of the project ‘Eidsborg rock – production and trade of whetstone in the Viking Age’ (2023-2027), funded by the Norwegian Research council.


Books by Kjetil Loftsgarden

Farmers’ trade and markets

Social and economic interaction in the medieval and early modern European countryside

Edited by Marie Ødegaard, Kjetil Loftsgarden & Claudia Theune | Forthcoming

This volume brings together a series of case studies on the social and economic interaction and organisation in the medieval and early modern European countryside. In particular, it focuses on rural and smaller trade and…









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