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urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 03 01 01 urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 15 9781912186990 06 10.63308/63881023874820.book 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en 01 01 Nordic Climate Histories Impacts, Pathways, Narratives 1 B01 21 0000-0001-8970-970X Dominik Collet 2 B01 Ingar Ingar Gundersen 3 B01 21 0000-0001-5829-5575 Heli Huhtamaa 4 B01 21 0000-0003-0220-3947 Fredrik Ljungqvist 5 B01 21 0000-0001-9711-7878 Astrid Ogilvie 6 B01 21 0000-0002-1046-3944 Sam White 01 eng 00 360 03 10 HIS035000 93 NHA 93 RNPG 10 SCI092000 93 RBPC 10 SCI042000 93 1DN 03 00 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. 04 00 Introduction: Integrating, Connecting and Narrating Nordic Climate Histories Dominik Collet, Ingar Mørkestøl 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 Norrgård 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 Vatsvåg 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 Mørkestøl Gundersen Chapter 10. An Ice Breakup as in the Good Old Days’. Ice Jams in the Aura River, Turku, Southwest Finland, 1739–2024 Stefan Norrgård 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 Natália Melo, Bergsveinn Þórsson, Felix Riede and Stefan Norrgård 20 00 Open Access The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press Winwick, Cambs. 04 01 20250815 13 15 9781912186983 09 The White Horse Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63881023874820.book.pdf 99 01 09 The White Horse Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/ 99 01