Given the title, the reader may be somewhat disappointed to learn that no great halls from late prehistoric Östergötland have been identified. Acc'd Rundkvist, this is probably simply due to the province being relatively poorly explored archaeologically. To find where the great men who would have presided in such halls lived he instead relies on elite graves, hoards, and other indications of wealth and power.

Otherwise the chief takeaway would seem to be that there was little continuity in the localization of power - various centres come and go, presumably reflecting an unstable political environment.