Scandinavian Runic-text Database

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lena Peterson - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Lennart Elmevik - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Description

The database contains all Nordic runic text, including ones found outside of the Nordic countries. The text are provided in transliterised and normalised form, plus translated to English. Attached to the texts is information on time period, area of discovery, excerpt source, object type, image links, geographic coordinates etc. A variety of different searches can be made in the text files using specially designed software. The database contains approximately 6500 scriptures. Together with search programs and a user manual the database can be locally downloaded to your own computer.
Lacks the Dala scriptures,

Purpose:

The aim of the project has been to collect all Nordic rune-texts, including those found outside the Nordic countries, in a machine-readable format for the benefit of a number of disciplines.

Subject area

HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
History and Archaeology, History, Archaeology, Languages and Literature, General Language Studies and Linguistics, Specific Languages (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

Iron Age, runes, Late Iron Age, linguistics, Middle Ages, 13th century, 15th century, Early Iron Age, 12th century, 14th century, texts

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Principal organisation

Uppsala University

Accessibility status

Access to data through an external actor
Data are freely accessible

Homepage

http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm

Responsible department/unit

Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lena Peterson - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Lennart Elmevik - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Contributor(s)

Marco Bianchi - Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages

Magnus Källström - Swedish National Heritage Board

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0079

Description

Language

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated

200 — 1523

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, United Kingdom

Subject area

Keywords

Iron Age, runes, Late Iron Age, linguistics, Middle Ages, 13th century, 15th century, Early Iron Age, 12th century, 14th century, texts

Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

Human use

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Publications

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Elmevik, Lennart och Peterson, Lena, 1997: Samnordisk runtextdatabas: slutrapport. I: Nytt om runer 12. S. 33-34.
ISSN: 0801-3756

Peterson, Lena, 1994: Scandinavian Runic-text Database: a Presentation. Im: The Twelfth Viking Congress. Developments Around the Baltic and North Sea in the Viking Age. Ed. Björn Ambrosiani & Helen Clarke. Stockholm. (Birka studies 3.) pp. 305-309.
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Williams, H. och Lagman, S. (1989) Beskrivning av datorlagringen av det vikingatida runmaterialet. I Runrön 1. Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet

Källström, Magnus, 2005: Gamla och nya vägar till Sveriges runinskrifter. En kritisk översikt av källpublikationerna för svenska runtexter. I: Historisk tidskrift 2005:2. S. 300-308.
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