Leszek Gardela

Research output

Research output per year 2005 2012 2015 2019 2021 2022 2025

• 84 Book chapter
• 53 Journal article
• 12 Anthology
• 6 Book
• 8 More
  • 4 Literature review
  • 2 Article in proceedings
  • 1 Report
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  The Völva’s Toolkit: Viking Age Ritual Specialists and the Tools of their Trade

  Gardela, L., 2025, The Hidden Lives of Viking Age Women: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives. Hayeur Smith, M. & Sanmark, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2024

  Miniature Weapons in the Viking World: Small Things with Great Meaning

  Gardela, L., 2024, The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Gardeła, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, p. 479-496 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2023

  Animals and Animated Objects in Early Medieval Worlds: An Introduction

  Gardela, L. & Kajkowski, K., May 2023, Animals and Animated Objects in the Early Middle Ages. Gardeła, L. & Kajkowski, K. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, (New Approaches in Archaeology, Vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Magic Staffs

  Gardela, L., 2023, The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Gardeła, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, p. 419-439 91 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Religious Paraphernalia and Elements of the Sorcerer's Toolkit: An Introduction to Part 5

  Gardela, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P., 2023, The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Gardeła, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, p. 403-418 16 p. 29

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Ritual Specialists in the Viking World: An Introduction to Part 4

  Gardela, L., 2023, The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Gardeła, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, p. 259-266 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The Volva from Gutdalen. Identity, Belief and the Performance of Power in Viking Age Western Norway: Identity, Belief and the Performance of Power in Viking Age Western Norway

  Westlye, J. B., Gardela, L. & Karpińska, K., 2023, The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Gardeła, L., Bønding, S. & Pentz, P. (eds.). Oxford : Oxbow Books, p. 355-380 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  Funerary Dramas and Ritual Killing in the Slavic World: Written Sources and Archaeological Realities

  Gardela, L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Archaeological and Anthropological Perspective. Walsh, M. J., O'Neill, S., Moen, M. & Gullbekk, S. H. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Harald Bluetooth and the Western Slavs: Cultural Interactions in Light of Textual and Archaeological Sources

  Gardela, L., 2022, Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Pontificum. Origins, Reception and Significance. Bartusik, G., Biskup, R. & Morawiec, J. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 246-267 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Jak ugryźć wampira? Kontrowersje w archeologicznych interpretacjach dawnych wierzeń oraz praktyk rytualnych

  Gardela, L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Pierwszy Kongres Archeologii Polskiej. Wawrzeniuk, J. & Kobyliński, Z. (eds.). Warszawa: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Miano bestii: Zachodniosłowiańska figurka „konika” z duńskiej Wyspy Møn i jej analogie: Name of the Beast. Western Slavic "Horse" Figurine from Møn in Denmark and its Analogies

  Gardela, L., 2022, W świecie bogów, ludzi i zwierząt. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Leszkowi Pawłowi Słupeckiemu: In the World of Gods, Humans and Animals. Studies Dedicated to Professor Leszek Paweł Słupecki. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, p. 357-384 28 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Riders on the Storm: Decorative Horse Bridles in the Early Piast State and Pomerania

  Gardela, L. & Kajkowski, K., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Animals and Animated Objects in the Early Middle Ages. Gardeła, L. & Kajkowski, K. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, (New Approaches in Archaeology, Vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Skandinavere og slaver i vikingernes verden. En kort historie om kulturel interaktion = Scandinavians and Slavs in the Viking Age: A Short History of Cultural Interaction

  Gardela, L., 2022, Magt og guld – Vikinger i øst = Power and Gold - Vikings in the East. Ravn, M. & Lindblom, C. (eds.). Strandbygaard: Turbine, p. 78-97 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Transformative Objects: Multivalent Militaria in Viking Age Female Attire

  Gardela, L. & Toplak, M., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Deliberate Non-Conformance in Design and Manufacture in Prehistoric Material Culture. Ballmer, A. & Neumann, D. (eds.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Western Norwegian Cremation Practices from the Viking Age

  Gardela, L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Cremation in the Early Middle Ages. Lippok, F. & Williams, H. (eds.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Western Slavic Cremation Practices: Past Work, Current Perspectives and Future Directions

  Gardela, L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Cremation in the Early Middle Ages. Lippok, F. & Williams, H. (eds.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Women and Miniature Weapons in the Viking Age

  Gardela, L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) The Feminine in Old Norse Mythology. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Women and Swords in the Viking Age: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Archaeological and Textual Motif

  Gardela, L., 2022, Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Studies of the Viking Age. Savbörg, D. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 127-164 35 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2021

  Amazonen, Walküren, Seherinnen

  Translated title of the contribution: Amazons, valkyries, sorceressesGardela, L., 2021, Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie. Toplak, M. S. (ed.). Darmstadt: Konrad Theiss Verlag, p. 84-89 6 p. (Archäologie in Deutschland. Sonderheft).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Arbre de vie

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 270-271 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Armée et guerre

  Bárány, A. & Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 272-274 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Bóg na ostrodze? Zachodniosłowiańskie oporządzenie jeździeckie z wyobrażeniami antropomorficznymi

  Translated title of the contribution: A God on a Spur? Western Slavic Equestrian Equipment with Anthropomorphic MotifsGardela, L. & Kajkowski, K., 2021, Słowianie Połabscy. Studia z zakresu archeologii, historii i językoznawstwa. Szczepanik, P. & Kaczmarek, Ł. (eds.). Toruń: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, p. 157-197 41 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Chamanisme

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale. Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 340 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Der Krieg und das Übernatürliche – Magie auf dem Schlachtfeld

  Translated title of the contribution: War and the supernatural. Magic on the battlefieldGardela, L., 2021, Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie. Toplak, M. S. (ed.). Darmstadt: Konrad Theiss Verlag, p. 122-128 7 p. (Archäologie in Deutschland. Sonderheft, Vol. 20 (2021)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Divinités slaves pré-chrétiennes

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale. Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 428 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Kristus træder ind på scenen

  Pedersen, A., Gardela, L. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 118-121 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Lænker og prygl er trællenes skæbne

  Pentz, P., Gardela, L. & Heisz, T., 2021, Danmark før os: Historien fortalt gennem 50 genstande. Heisz, T., Corfitz, L. & Willerslev, R. (eds.). København: People's, p. 123-125 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Norse Identities in Viking Age Poland: Actors, Objects, and Interactions in Pomerania and the Piast State

  Gardela, L., 2021, Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs. Bauduin, P., Lebouteiller, S. & Bourgeois, L. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 207-237 31 p. (CELAMA).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Ports

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 716-717 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Pratiques funéraires

  Gardela, L. & Csukovits, E., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 721-722

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Relations avec la Scandinavie

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 747-748 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Slavery in Viking-Age Scandinavia: A Review of the Archaeological Evidence

  Raffield, B., Gardela, L. & Toplak, M. S., 2021, Viking-Age Slavery. M. T., Østhus, H. & Simek, R. (eds.). Vienna: Verlag Fassbaender, p. 6-56 51 p. (Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia, Vol. 29).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Slawische Krieger in der Wikingerwelt

  Translated title of the contribution: Slavic warriors in the Viking worldGardela, L. & Kajkowski, K., 2021, Die Wikinger. Seeräuber und Krieger im Licht der Archäologie. Toplak, M. S. (ed.). Darmstadt: WBG Theiss, p. 29-38 10 p. (Archäologie in Deutschland. Sonderheft, Vol. 20).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• The Blind Seer: The Enigmatic Ritual Specialist from the TV Series “Vikings” and his Archetypes in Old Norse Literature and Viking Archaeology

  Gardela, L., 2021, Res, Artes et Religio: Essays in Honour of Rudolf Simek. Walther, S. H., Jucknies, R., Meurer-Bongardt, J., Schnall, J. E., Jaroschek, B. & Onkels, S. (eds.). Leeds: Kismet Press, p. 177-195 19 p. ( Literature and Culture, Vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Vampires et revenants

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 832 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Varègues

  Gardela, L., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale: Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 833

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Vêtements

  Gardela, L. & Saczyńska, M., 2021, Démystifier l’Europe centrale. Les pays hongrois, polonais et tchèques du VIIe au XVIe siècle. de Cevins, M.-M. (ed.). Paris: Passés Composés, p. 837-838 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Women and Axes in the North: Diversity and Meaning in Viking Age Mortuary Practices

  Gardela, L., 2021, Folklore and Old Norse Mythology. F. & Ahola , J. (eds.). Helsinki: Kalevala Society, p. 413-450 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2020

  Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview

  Gardela, L., 2020, The Odd, the Unusual and the Strang : Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past. Betsinger, T. K., Scott, A. B. & Tsaliki, A. (eds.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, p. 246-275 30 p. (Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The Slavic Way of Death. Archaeological Perspectives on Otherworld Journeys in Early Medieval Poland

  Gardela, L., 2020, Between the Worlds. Contexts, Sources and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys. Egeler, M. & Heizmann, W. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 207-252 46 p. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Viking Archaeology in Poland: Past, Present and Future

  Gardela, L., 2020, Viking Encounters. Proceedings of the 18th Viking Congress. Pedersen, A. & Sindbæk, S. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 547-564 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2019

  Czy w Polsce są groby wikingów? Skandynawskie praktyki pogrzebowe na ziemiach polskich we wczesnym średniowieczu

  Translated title of the contribution: Viking graves in Poland? Scandinavian funerary practices in Poland in the Early Middle AgesGardela, L., 2019, Wikingowie w Polsce? Zabytki skandynawskie z ziem polskich. Bogacki, M., Janowski, A. & Kaczmarek, Ł. (eds.). Gniezno: Muzeum Początków Państwa Polskiego, p. 155-263 108 p. (CCG Collectio Cathalogorum Gnesnensium, Vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Death on Canvas. Artistic Reconstructions in Viking Age Mortuary Archaeology

  Gardela, L., 2019, The Public Archaeology of Death. Williams, H., Wills-Eve, B. & Osborne, J. (eds.). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd, p. 95-112 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Der Weg in den Osten: Gegenseitige Einflüsse. Skandinavier und Westslawen

  Translated title of the contribution: Scandinavians and Western Slavs in the Viking AgeGardela, L., 2019, Die Wikinger: Entdecker und Eroberer. Toplak, M. & Staecker, J. (eds.). Berlin: Propyläen, p. 237-251 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Mächtige Frauen und versklavte Männer: Walküren, Schildmaiden und Nordische Amazonen. Weibliche Krieger in der Wikingerzeit?

  Translated title of the contribution: Valkyries, Shieldmaidens and Nordic Amazons. Female Warriors in the Viking Age?Gardela, L. & Toplak, M., 2019, Die Wikinger: Entdecker und Eroberer. Toplak, M. & Staecker, J. (eds.). Berlin: Propyläen, p. 137-151 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Oporządzenie jeździeckie i elementy rzędu końskiego

  Translated title of the contribution: Equestrian equipmentGardela, L., Kajkowski, K., Ratajczyk, Z. & Wadyl, S., 2019, Ciepłe. Elitarna nekropola wczesnośredniowieczna na Pomorzu Wschodnim. Wadyl, S. (ed.). Gdańsk: Muzeum Archeologiczne w Gdańsku, p. 139-164 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• “(Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland: From Nineteenth Century Romantics to Contemporary Warriors

  Gardela, L., 2019, The Vikings Reimagined. Birkett, T. & Dale, R. (eds.). Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter, p. 48-68 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
• 2018

  Amazons of the North? Armed Females in Viking Archaeology and Medieval Literature

  Gardela, L., 2018, Hvanndalir – Beiträge zur europäischen Altertumskunde und mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft: Festschrift für Wilhelm Heizmann. Pesch, A. & Bauer, A. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 391-428 58 p. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
• 2017

  Scandinavian Amulets in Truso: Signals of Belief in a Viking Age Emporium

  Gardela, L., 2017, Between Jutland and Sambia. Truso in the Context of Research in the South-West Zone of the Baltic Sea Basin in the Viking Age. Jagodziński, M. F. (ed.). Elbląg: Museum of History and Archaeology in Elbląg, p. 159-189 (Truso Studies, Vol. III: 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The World on a Spur. Unravelling the Cosmology of the Pagan Slavs

  Gardela, L., 2017, Animals and Animated Objects in Past Societies. Book of Abstracts. Gardeła, L. & Kajkowski, K. (eds.). Bytów: Muzeum Zachodniokaszubskie w Bytowie, p. 33-42 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research