Books

Oehrl, Sigmund 2019: Die Bildsteine Gotlands – Probleme und neue Wege ihrer Dokumentation, Lesung und Deutung. Friedberg: Likias. (Studia archaeologiae medii aevi, 3). (Pilot study)

Oehrl, Sigmund (ed.): Gotlandic Picture Stones in European Contexts and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Proceedings of the Second Picture Stone Symposium, Visby, 22-26 August 2022. Turnhout: Brepols. (TANE - The Archaeology of Northern Europe).

Table of content
Introduction
1.    Sigmund Oehrl: Research history, Ancient Images 2.0 and the picture stone symposia

Parallels, influences, and models – the early stones
2.    Hannah Strehlau: A new Typology of the Early Gotlandic Picture Stones as Basis for Conclusions on Their Origins – With Selected Results From the Ancient Images Digitisation Project
3.    Charlotte Behr: Early Gotlandic Picture Stones and Migration Period Gold Bracteates
4.    Cherie Larkin: Edging or Erecting? Re-evaluating Lindqvist’s Kerbstone Category
5.    Anders Andrén: Limestone slabs (flisor) on Öland as parallels to Gotlandic picture stones?

Parallels, influences, and models – the late stones
6.    Sebastian Ristow: Early medieval stone monuments from the Rhine-Moselle-area and the Gotlandic picture stones
7.    Egon Wamers: Interlaced connections. The altar wall of Mals in Vinschgau and the Gotlandic Picture stones Type C/D
8.    Lukas Albrecht: Carolingian influence on the Viking period picture stones of Gotland?
9.    Dirk Steinforth: Viking Stone Monuments and the Coming of Christianity: Comparing the Manx Crosses of the Scandinavian Series and Gotland’s Period-E Runic Picture Stones

Iconography and runology
10.    Manu Braithwaite-Westoby: Space and Directionality in the visual language of the Viking Age Gotland Picture Stones
11.    Gregor Hellweg: Set in stone? Reflections of material Culture on the gotlandic Picture Stones
12.    Michaela Helmbrecht: Iconography in Context. Methodological problems in interpreting the imagery of the Gotlandic Picture Stones
13.    Amanda Doviak: Versatile Visual Vocabularies: Re-assessing the Iconographic Relationships of Anglo-Scandinavian Stone Sculpture and Gotlandic Picture Stones
14.    Klas Wikström af Edholm: Ritual Killings and Human Sacrifices on Gotlandic Picture Stones
15.    Lilla Kopár / Beth Newman Ooi / Nancy Wicker: The Andvari Iconographic Thesaurus: A Controlled Vocabulary for the Digital Corpus of Gotlandic Picture Stones
16.    Magnus Källström: Picture stones and runes – A brief report on some new readings and interpretations from the field and the archives

Craft
17.    Patrick Hänsel: Type and Origin of Gotlandic Picture Stones’ Raw Material and Their Implications Concerning Craft and Manufacture: A Combined Geological and Archaeological Study
18.    Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt: Gotland Type A-B Picture stones (c. AD 400-700): Investigations on carving techniques and workshop relations based on 3D digitization

Afterlife
19.    Cecilia Ljung: Perceptions of a near and distant past: The reused picture stones in Ardre church
20.    Sally Foster / Per Widerström: Social value, Gotlandic picture stones and the future: insights from Scottish research, policy and practice

Papers and articles 
Hänsel, Patrick, et al. 2022: Stable carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry as provenance indicator for the picture stones on Gotland (Sweden). GFF 144(3-4), 220–239.

Hänsel, Patrick, et al. 2024: The raw material preferences for producing picture stones on Gotland. Fornvännen 119(4), 252–273.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2020: Gotland's largest picture stone rediscovered. Fornvännen 115(1), 51–54.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2020: Pagan Stones in Christian Churches. Medieval views on the past. Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 2019, 69–95.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2021: Kampf und Jenseits auf den Bildsteinen Gotlands, in Toplak, Matthias (ed.): Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 20, 159–164.

Pedersen, Anne & Oehrl, Sigmund 2021: Late Viking-Age Dragon-Slayers — Two Unusual Urnes-Style Brooches from Sjælland, Denmark. Medieval Archaeology 65(2), 322–367.

Book Chapters
Andrén, Anders 2025: Vem blickade in i kyrkan? Tolkningar av de gotländska bönekamrarna, in Roslund, Mats, et al. (ed.): Ut ur labyrinten: En vänbok till Jes Wienberg. Lund: Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds Universitet. (Lund Studies in Historical Archaeology, 22).

Andrén, Anders in print: Pictorial monuments in Scandinavia, c. 400-1100, in Semple, Sarah, Hawkes, Jane & Cramp, Rosemary (ed.): Art, image, power and place: The stone sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England in context. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Andrén, Anders in preparation: Rune Stones, Picture Stones, and other Erected Stones in Scandinavia, c. 400-1100, in Semple, Sarah & Hawkes, Jane (ed.): Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.

Kitzler Åhfeldt, Laila 2021: Gotland Picture Stones and Narration, in Frog & Ahola, Joonas (ed.): Folklore and Old Norse mythology. Helsinki: The Kalevala Society, 525–550.

Kitzler Åhfeldt, Laila 2021: Rune Carvers in Military Campaigns, in Iversen, Frode & Kjesrud, Karoline (ed.): Viking Wars. Viking LXXXIV Special volume 1. Oslo, 207–230.

Kitzler Åhfeldt, Laila in print: The imagery of the Gotland picture stones compared to the tapestries from Oseberg and Överhogdal, in Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte, Vedeler, Marianne & Mannering, Ulla (ed.): Furnishing Textiles and Household Production in and beyond the Viking Age.

Kitzler Åhfeldt, Laila & Oehrl, Sigmund in print: Ancient Images 2.0 and the online edition of Gotland Picture Stones, in Semple, Sarah, Hawkes, Jane & Cramp, Rosemary (ed.): Art, image, power and place: The stone sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England in context. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Oehrl, Sigmund forthcoming: Aquatic birds and the afterlife journey in the imagery of the Gotland picture stones, in Karpinska, Klaudia, Oehrl, Sigmund & Smallmann, Riley (ed.): Between bones and beliefs. Human-bird relations in Central and Northern Europe in the 1st millenium AD. Turnhout: Brepols. (TANE - The Archaeology of Northern Europe).

Oehrl, Sigmund in preparation: The spear of death in the iconography of the Gotland picture stones. New considerations based on digital imaging techniques, in Steinforth, Dirk & Szczepanik, Pawel (ed.): Pre-Christian Beliefs of Central and Northern Europe. Interdisciplinary Investigations. Turnhout: Brepols. (TANE - The Archaeology of Northern Europe).

Oehrl, Sigmund in preparation: Avian iconography on the Gotland picture stones – Vendel and Viking Period bird symbolism, in Oehrl, Sigmund, Bauer, Alessia & Heizmann, Wilhelm (ed.): Gedenkschrift für Klaus Düwel: de Gruyter. (Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde).

Oehrl, Sigmund 2019: Re-Interpretations of Gotlandic Picture Stones Based on the Reflectance Transformation Imaging Method (RTI). Some Examples, in Wikström af Edholm, K., et al. (ed.): Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion In Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia. Stockholm. (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, 40), 141–185.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2019: Heidnisch oder christlich? Die Bildkunst der späten Wikingerzeit, in Staecker, Jörn & Toplak, Matthias (ed.): Die Wikinger. Entdecker und Eroberer. Berlin, 378–394.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2020: Die Jenseitsreise in der Ikonographie der gotländischen Bildsteine, in Heizmann, Wilhelm & Egeler, Matthias (ed.): Between the Worlds. Contexts, Sources and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. (Ergänzungsband zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 118), 21–87.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2020: I am Eagle. Depictions of raptors and their meaning in the art of Late Iron Age and Viking Age Scandinavia, in Grimm, Oliver (ed.): Raptor on the fist: falconry, its imagery and similar motifs throughout the millennia on a global scale. Kiel, Hamburg: Wachholtz. (Advanced studies on the archaeology and history of hunting, 2), 451–479.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2022: Bildstein von Smiss (Katalognummer A.1.1), in Skiba, Viola, et al. (ed.): Die Normannen: Eine Geschichte von Mobilität, Eroberung und Innovation. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner. (Publikation der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Bd. Band 96Bd), 37–39.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2023: Equestrian Saints in pagan Scandinavia? Hidden figures on Gotlandic picture-stones detected with digital methods, in Richardson, Andrew, et al. (ed.): Transitions and relationships over Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages of Northern Europe. Kent: Isle Heritage, Sandgate, 215–240.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2023: Human-avian and god-avian relations in Viking Age religion and mythology – as mirrored by contemporary pictorial art, in Gardeła, Leszek, Bønding, Sophie & Pentz, Peter (ed.): The Norse sorceress. Mind and materiality in the Viking world. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 191–212.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2023: Þórr och Midgårdsormen på bildstenen Ardre VIII – en omvärdering, in Heizmann, Wilhelm & van Nahl, Jan Alexander (ed.): Germanisches Altertum und Europäisches Mittelalter: Gedenkband für Heinrich Beck. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 142), 319–354.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2023: "Verborgene" Figuren auf gotländischen Bildsteinen und die Frage nach ihren Rezipienten, in Flückiger, Anna, Helmbrecht, Michaela & Hilgner, Alexandra (ed.): Kommunikation - Zeichen - Macht: Tagungsbeiträge der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Spätantike und Frühmittelalter 11 und 12. Hamburg: Dr. Kovac. (Studien zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter, 10), 327–367.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2025: Figürliche Kunst vor dem Zeitalter der Schriftlichkeit (ca. 400–1100) und ihr Verhältnis zur literarischen Überlieferung, in Langeslag, Paul, et al. (ed.): Die Anfänge germanischsprachiger Literaturen. Ein interdisziplinäres Studienbuch. Freiburg i.Br.: Herder.

Oehrl, Sigmund & Fergusson, Michael 2022: A new edition of the gotlandic picture stones, in Ludowici, Babette & Pöppelmann, Heike (ed.): New Narratives for the First Millennium AD? Alte und neue Perspektiven der archäologischen Forschung zum 1. Jahrtausend n. Chr. Wendeburg: Verlag Uwe Krebs. (Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung, 11), 201–226.

Oehrl, Sigmund & Toplak, Matthias 2024: Gotländische Bildsteine in Kirchen: Ein Beitrag zur Spolienforschung und mittelalterlichen Mentalitätsgeschichte, in Bauer, Alessia (ed.): Florilegium nordmannicum. Beiträge zur norrönen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft Nordeuropas. Festschrift für François-Xavier Dillmann. Wien: Fassbaender. (Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia, 31), 429–484.

Oehrl, Sigmund, et al. in preparation: Forntida Bilder 2.0. Ett gotländskt kulturarv blir digitalt, in Näslund, Anna & Snickars, Pelle (ed.): DIGARV antologi: Makadam.

Reviews
Oehrl, Sigmund 2021: Review: Kent Andersson, Det förflutnas ansikten. Öga mot öga med forntiden (Stockholm 2020). Fornvännen 116, 342–344.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2021: Review: Marianne Vedeler, The Oseberg Tapestries (Oslo 2019). Fornvännen 116, 351–353.

Oehrl, Sigmund 2024: Review: Hayo Vierck (†), Wieland der Schmied – und Schamane ? Ein Schmiedeheld und Halbgott im Spiegel skandinavischer und angelsächsischer Bilddenkmäler (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 127, 2022). Le Moyen Âge CXXX, 588–591.

Students’ theses
Larkin, Cherie J. A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered: An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones. MA thesis in archaeology, Spring term 2023.

Strehlau, Hannah 2023: The Origins of the Early Gotlandic Picture Stones. Migration Period stone monuments and their parallels in Scandinavia and in the Roman Provinces. Dissertation (unpubl.). Christian-Albrechts-Universität.