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Today is Uppsala Runic Forum's 15th birthday!

Uppsala Runic Forum: 15 years Today is the 15th birthday of Uppsala Runic Forum, so hip hip hooray for us!

Uppdatering för Android!

Hej alla!

Nu är det dags att ladda ner en ny app ”Runstenar”!

Appen finns att hitta på Google play och på App store om ni söker på ”runstenar”. Ni kan också hitta med hjälp av dessa länkar och qr-koder.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details...
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/svenska-runstenar/id6464495523

För tillfället innehåller appen alla runstenar som är tillgängliga i Svealand och Norrland. Götaland kommer under hösten 2024!

Runinskrifter i appen är översatta till svenska och engelska, men övrig information om stenar finns bara på svenska. Det kommer en separat englesk version av appen inom kort.

Projektet leds av Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath (Stockholms universitet) och utförs av apputvecklaren Umami Produktion (Hi-Story).

Om ni vill få information om appens uppdateringar, följ appens sida på facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560098396054

Applikation ”Svenska runstenar” Applikation ”Svenska runstenar” skapades av Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath (Stockholms universitet) och företaget Umami produktion (tidigare: Hi-Story). Här kommer vi att berätta om appens uppdateringar.

The replica of the Kilbar runestone Sc 8 from Scotland has now arrived to its owner!

The inscription runs in three rows on the back side of the stone and says: “In memory of Þorgerðr, Steinarr’s daughter(?), this cross is raised…
By the way, you can read more about this stone and all other runic inscriptions from Scotland, Orkney, Shetland and England in the Michael P. Barnes’ and R. I. Pages’ great volume “The Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions of Britain”.

https://youtu.be/S_Myg5WxsDA

Lyssna gärna på Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt’s presentation! Hon berättar om sin 3D-undersökning av Karlevistenens latinska inskrift. Mycket häftigt! Och mycket intressanta slutsater!

Dela gärna och kommentera här eller på youtube.

(Jag planerar att lägga ut fler Runråd på Runic Stories, så glöm inte att prenumerera för att inte missa dessa)

Karlevistenens runor och latininskrift: analys av ristningstekniken Runråd 107Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt

Grattis till Henrik Williams som hade en bok release ikväll! Fråga nu i era favorit bokaffärer efter denna goding! 🙂

Congatulations to Henrik Williams who had a book release tonight! Ask now after this cutie in your favourite bookstores 🙂

I would like to invite you to follow my Instagram which I hope to fill with my replicas of runestones and short stories about them.

Please, encourage me a bit!

This replica of the Möjbo rune stone (Uppland) is one of the most popular. I receive orders to make this one  quite often! Unfortunately the original rune stone is not on display ... and Wikipedia is wrong. It has been on display in Swedish National Historical Museum for many years but not during the last ten years. And I have seen it in Swedish National Historical Museum’s store rooms in Tumba. It is laying on the floor and this is a very sad view...    It has an inscription in Proto-Norse language: frawaradaz anahaha islaginaz There is no problem with its reading, but the interpretation  is a bit complicated. The first part of the inscription  can be understood as a personal name . The last part is also easy: it can be interpreted as ”is killed”.  But what about the middle part ? It has a lot of different interpretations.  For example a famous Swedish runologist Otto von Friesen suggested 1913 that could be interpreted as ”Ane the one-eyed.”   A German runologist Wolfgang Krause suggested 1932 that this part means ”on the horse”: “Frawaradaz on the horse is killed”.    The latest interpretation was suggested by prof. Staffan Friedell in 2008 (and Wikipedia doesn’t know it either) And I personally think that Staffan is right.  He interprets ana haha quite convincing  as ”close to the inlet”. So it is about a known toponym. This stone is notable also for its images. It shows a rider on a horse with two dogs. Otto von Friesen suggested that its pictures have been inspired by continental Germanic images of victorious warriors on horses. #Möjbro #Uppland #runestones #runes #protonorse #elderfuthark #konst #runor #runstenar #runstenariuppland

As of 1 April 2021, Henrik Williams is Uppsala University's new chair in Runology. This was celebrated a week ago with a digital celebration and a lecture by Henrik entitled “From Rök to the Mustang Mountains – The Challenges of Runology”.

Lecture by Professor Henrik Williams – celebrating Uppsala University’s new Chair in Runology Professor Henrik Williams giving a lecture titled “From Rök to the Mustang Mountains – The Challenges of Runology”.The lecture was given as part of the celeb...

Lots of new runology!

Volume 11 of Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies (2020) is now available online at https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438134. As usual, the contributions cover a broad range of topics, both geographically and chronologically. The issue contains the following six peer reviewed articles, two peer reviewed short notices and two reviews:

👉 Hanna Åkerström. Rökstenens visuella textstruktur: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438135

👉 Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath. En nytolkning av Birka-amuletten: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438136

👉 Fredrik Valdeson. Vg 199 Norra Lundby: Ett tolkningsförsök: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438137

👉 Egil Kraggerud. Understanding N 603 from Bryggen in Bergen in the Light of Carmina Burana Poems 88 and 71: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438138

👉 Staffan Fridell & Mats G. Larsson. Om Kensingtonrunornas ursprung: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438139

👉 Staffan Fridell & Henrik Williams. De äldre runorna på Rökstenen: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438141

👉 Magnus Källström. Ännu ett exempel på den stungna l-runan: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438142

👉 James E. Knirk. Runestone N KJ49B Fuglset: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438143

👉 Magnus Källström. Review of Hans-Peter Naumann, in association with Marco Bianchi and Ulrike Marx-Alberding. Metrische Runeninschriften in Skandinavien: Einführung, Edition und Kommentare. https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438144

👉 Henrik Williams. Review of David M. Krueger. Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America: https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438145

Futhark is an independent journal, but has as its base of operations the Runic Archives at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, and Uppsala Runic Forum at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University. It is 100% Open Access and available to the public without costs for readers and authors.

Today is Henrik Williams' first day as Professor of runology

Henrik is the second Professor of runology ever in Sweden and the only current one in the world as far as we know.

We celebrate the occasion with the long-awaited publication of the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions 2014 in Nyköping. The volume is available for free at https://www.nordiska.uu.se/research/series/runron/.

April 1 news As of today, Henrik Williams is Uppsala University's first Professor of runology.

Funderar ni kanske på vad ni skulle kunna titta på ikväll? Kanske något som särskilt passar till fredag kväll? ;-) Titta då på min nya inspelning om svenska vikingatida runstenar och lär er att datera dem med hjälp av deras ornamentik.

Anons: nästa inspelning blir om runstenar och färg (och nästnästa blir om skeppsbilder på runstenar)

Sonia Pereswetoff-Morath

Rune stones from Sweden: Dating by design Learn how to date a typical Swedish rune stone using only its ornamentation. In this video, I will explain how rune stones from the early Viking age differ f...