ABSTRACT
The final chapter of the book sums up the various threads discussed in the previous chapters, including relational ontology, the long-time perspective and points of contact between the northern world and the Mediterranean world. It emphasizes the need for a dialogue between archaeology, history, ethnography and folkloristics. A central conclusion that emerges from the discussion is that the modern (‘Cartesian’) division of the lived world into such dichotomies as material and spiritual, human and non-human, organic and inorganic is deeply misleading if applied to the pre-modern northern world.
