German text with English summary. An analysis of the Scandinavian Roman and Migration Period war booty site, Kragelund, excavated on the Island of Funen, Denmark in the late 19th century. Based on the evidence from the war booty offerings and a huge number of defensive structures all over Scandinavia Iversen argues that Iron Age society in this region had an ideology of warfare to a degree such that it was an integral part of the very structure of society.