Futhark, Vol. 4 2013
International Journal of Runic Studies. Containing proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Oslo, 9 – 14. August 2010.
University of Oslo and Uppsala University 2013
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CONTENT:
Articles in this yearbook of Runic Studies primarily publish revised versions of the keynote address and other plenary lectures held at the seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Oslo 2010. Next issue (Vol 5. 2014) will hold the rest of the papers, which have not been published elsewhere.
Foreword p. 5
ARTICLES:
Barnes, Michael P.: What is Runology, and Where Does it Stand Today? Pp. 7 – 30
Klaus Düwel: “Keine Denkmaäler werdeb grosser sein…”: Was ist ein Runendenkmal pp. 31 – 60
Judith Jesch: Runes and Words: Runic Lexicography in Context pp. 77 – 100
Henrik Williams: Runstenarnas sociala dimension pp. 61 -76
Magnus Käalström: Vikingatida och medeltida skrifttraditioner: Några iakttagelser med utgångspunkt I det svenska runmaterialet
Kristel Zilmer: Christian Prayers and Invocations in Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions from the Viking Age and Middle Ages pp. 129 – 172
SHORT NOTICES:
Morten Søvsø: Om dateringen ad Ribe runehjerneskallen p. 173
Staffan Fridell: Ortsnamnet Hassmyra på Vs24
Staffan Fridell: Vad betyder Bautil? P. 181
DEBATE:
Bernard Mees: The Tune memorial’s asijostez p. 187
Thórhallur Eythórsson: On Tune’s sijostez Once Again: A Reply to Bernard Mees p. 191
REVIEWS:
Zentrale Probleme bei der Erforschung der älteren Runen: Akten einer international Tagung an der Norwegischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ed. John Ole Askedal et al. Reviewed by Henrik Williams. Pp. 195 -200
Michael P. Barnes: Runes. A Handbook. Reviewed by Patrik Larsson pp201 – 206
Epigraphical Literacy and Christian Identity: Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North. Ed. Kristel Zilmer and Judith Jesch. Reviewed by Staffan Fridell. Pp. 207 – 209