The 8th International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions with the theme 'Reading Runes – Discovery, Decipherment, Documentation' took place 1–6 September, 2014, at Sunlight Hotel, Conference & Spa, in Nyköping.
The scope of the symposium was broad, catering to a wide range of interests. Some may have found certain presentations irrelevant or even provocative as regards their understanding of the discipline, but we as organizers made no apologies for accepting such papers. Runic studies is simply too small a specialty for total agreement to be healthy, with only a few scholars attempting to cover the whole spectrum naturally developing in larger fields of study. As long as the scholarly quality is satisfactory, all contributions to runic studies are welcome.
Sixteen papers are published in the symposium report, with the symposium themes reversed as the only plenary lecture included is the one on documentation. The articles in this volume primarily reflect what was submitted for publication after the symposium: most of the editing was done in 2015 and 2016, and the contributions have generally not been updated.
Author(s): Mindy MacLeod, Marco Bianchi, Henrik Williams (eds.)
Series: Runrön, 24
Publisher: Uppsala University
Year: 2021
Language: English, German, Swedish
Pages: 270
Foreword 7
Documentation
Documentation of Runic Inscriptions / James E. Knirk 15
(Neu-)Lesungen von Runeninschriften und ihre Folgen für die frühgermanische Grammatik / Roland Schuhmann 43
Documenting the Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions of the British Isles: Confessions of a Field Runologist / Michael P. Barnes 55
Arbeiten mit Runica manuscripta: Einige Überlegungen zu Corpuserstellung und Vorgehensweise / Alessia Bauer 67
Sources of the First Printed Scandinavian Runes / Andreas Fischnaller 81
Normalisierung und Transkription, ihre Funktionen und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten – Fragen eines Editors / Edith Marold 95
Elmer Antonsen as a Runologist / Bernard Mees 109
Decipherment
Bracteates and Beverages: An Image from Scalford (and Hoby) and the Inscription 'alu' / Nancy L. Wicker 127
The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Saxon Runic Stone Monuments: Runic Inscriptions and the Development of Sculpture in Early Medieval England / Lilla Kopár 143
Gestaltung oder Zufall? Zur relationalen Platzierung von Worten auf Runensteinen der Wikingerzeit / Daniel Föller 157
Christian or Pagan? Some Reflections on the Iconography of U 448 / Anne-Sofie Gräslund 177
En landskapsanalys av runstenarna Sm 36 och Sm 37 i Bolmaryd / Martin Hansson & Per Stille 193
Der Gebrauch von punktierten Runen in dänischen Inschriften der Wikingerzeit / Jana Krüger 215
Reading Runes in Late Medieval Manuscripts / Wolfgang Beck 225
Runic Inscriptions in an Unrecognized Foreign Tongue? Methodological Preliminaries to Language Identification / Stig Eliasson 233
Discovery
Elias Wesséns runstensundersökningar i Södermanland 1928 och 1929 / Magnus Källström 249
