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Viking-Age runic plates : readings and interpretations / Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath ; translated from Swedish by Mindy MacLeod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pereswetoff-Morath, Sofia, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi ; 155.
- Runrön ; 21.
- Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 0065-0897 ; CLV
- Runrön, 1100-1690 ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Inscriptions, Runic.
- Denmark.
- Sweden.
- Runes.
- Inscriptions, Runic--Sweden.
- Inscriptions, Runic--Denmark.
- Viking antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Uppsala : Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2019.
- Summary:
- The aim of this dissertation is to represent as clearly as possible the genre of Viking-Age runic plates by developing readings and interpretations of the inscriptions on the 46 metal plates with runes from the Viking Age known today. Several investigations of the runic plates have been conducted with a stereomicroscope for this purpose. On the basis of the new readings thus established, new interpretations have been proposed for the most problematic sections of the previously interpreted inscriptions. New interpretations are also offered for inscriptions on runic plates which have previously been considered non-lexical. As well as providing new readings and interpretations, this study has resulted in clarification of the relationship between the form and content of the inscriptions on the runic plates on the one hand and on their find circumstances and appearance on the other.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction and presentation of the material
- 2. Comparative material
- 3. Swedish A-type runic plates with linguistic interpretations
- 4. Swedish runic plates with linguistic interpretations (type B and fragmentary)
- 5. Uninterpreted runic plates from Sweden
- 6. Danish runic plates
- 7. Runic plates outside Scandinavia
- 8. Results and conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789187403330
- 9187403331
- OCLC:
- 1187154071
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