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Futhark International Journal of Runic Studies Containing proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Oslo, 9–14 August 2010 Part 1: Plenary lectures Main editors James E. Knirk and Henrik Williams Assistant editor Marco Bianchi Vol. 4 · 2013 Published with financial support from the Nordic Publications Committee for Humanist and Social Sciences Periodicals (NOP-HS) © Contributing authors 2013 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/3.0/ All articles are available free of charge at http://www.futhark-journal.com A printed version of the issue can be ordered through http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-211527 Editorial advisory board: Michael P. Barnes (University College London), Klaus Düwel (University of Göttingen), Lena Peterson (Uppsala University), Marie Stoklund (National Museum, Copenhagen) Typeset with Linux Libertine by Marco Bianchi University of Oslo Uppsala University ISSN 1892-0950 Contents Foreword...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Michael P. Barnes. What Is Runology, and Where Does It Stand Today? ... 7 Klaus Düwel. „Keine Denkmäler werden größer sein …“: Was ist ein Runendenkmal? .............................................................................................................................. 31 Henrik Williams. Runstenarnas sociala dimension ..................................................... 61 Judith Jesch. Runes and Words: Runic Lexicography in Context ...................... 77 Magnus Källström. Vikingatida och medeltida skrifttraditioner: Några iakttagelser med utgångspunkt i det svenska runmaterialet. ......................... 101 Kristel Zilmer. Christian Prayers and Invocations in Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions from the Viking Age and Middle Ages ............................................. 129 Short Notices Morten Søvsø. Om dateringen af Ribe runehjerneskallen ...................................... 173 Staffan Fridell. Ortnamnet Hassmyra på Vs 24 ................................................................ 177 Staffan Fridell. Vad betyderBautil ? ........................................................................................ 181 Debate Bernard Mees. The Tune Memorial’sasijostez ............................................................. 187 Thórhallur Eythórsson. On Tune’ssijostez Once Again: A Reply to Bernard Mees .................................................................................................................................... 191 Reviews Zentrale Probleme bei der Erforschung der älteren Runen: Akten einer internationalen Tagung an der Norwegischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ed. John Ole Askedal et al. Reviewed by Henrik Williams ............................................................................................................................................... 195 Michael P. Barnes. Runes: A Handbook. Reviewed by Patrik Larsson.............. 201 Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity: Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North. Ed. Kristel Zilmer and Judith Jesch. Reviewed by Staffan Fridell ..................................................................................... 207 Contributors ............................................................................................................................................. 209 Foreword Volume 4 of Futhark contains revised versions of (a) the keynote address, by Michael P. Barnes, and (b) the other plenary lectures held at the Seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions (Oslo, 9–14 August 2010). It constitutes the first part of the conference proceedings. The theme of the symposium was “Runes in Context”. The contributions of six of the eight plenary speakers invited to the meeting appear in this volume, each of them developing different aspects of the symposium theme. A seventh speaker, Lisbeth Imer, has published a shorter Danish version of her presentation “Defining Contexts”, namely “Fortidens kalejdoskop.—.om definitionen af kontekster i runologien”,Arkæologisk Forum 24 (2011), 37–42. The eighth plenary talk, “Post-Reformation Runic Inscriptions in Norway” by K. Jonas Nordby, was in essence a general introduction to the exhibition of post-Reformation runic inscriptions which he organised at the Norwegian Folk Museum, Oslo. Also in the current issue are short notices, a debate and reviews. The editors would once again especially like to encourage the submission of short notices to the periodical. The next volume of the journal will see publication of the second part of the conference proceedings, encompassing selected papers from the symposium which have not already appeared elsewhere. A list of such papers as have been published separately will be found in the “Foreword” to that issue. Although the article section of Futhark volume 5 (2014) will in all likelihood be filled by symposium papers, the editors are happy for other articles to be submitted to the journal, which if accepted will be published in the following issue, volume 6 (2015). It is now possible for institutions and individuals to place a standing order for the journal at the e-mail address [email protected]. We urge those interested to place their order. James E. Knirk Henrik Williams Correction to Futhark Volume 3 Last year’s issue, Futhark volume 3 (2012, publ. 2013), contained the con- tribution “Runes about a Snow-White Woman: The Lund Gaming-Piece Revisited” by Rikke Steenholt Olesen. Regrettably, there is an error in the article on p. 94 which was introduced at the type-setting stage and not spotted during proof reading. In the transliteration proposed by the author a character in the fourth line was unfortunately deleted. Instead of the published (1) þeta:ræist (2) rolfr:þorkissun (3) honom:uar:þ9angar (4) blandat:umþ[þ<h]asn (5) huitu:snot the transliteration should have read (with the correction underlined here): (1) þeta:ræist (2) rolfr:þorkissun (3) honom:uar:þ9angar (4) blandat:umþ[þ<h]asnæ (5) huitu:snot The editors very much regret the mistake, for which the author was not responsible, and urge the readers of Futhark to rectify the error in their printed copies of the issue. What Is Runology, and Where Does It Stand Today? Michael P. Barnes Abstract The purpose of this contribution is to offer a critical appraisal of runology as currently practised. The article begins by asking what runology is, and possible ways of defining the subject are discussed. Theory and methodology are then considered. While there is much to be learnt from analysis of the methods runologists employ, the search for runological theories turns out to be an unrewarding exercise. Theories from other disciplines have on occasion informed and guided runological procedures, however, and this is exemplified through an examination of the role graphemics has played in recent discussion of rune forms and how they may best be transliterated into the roman alphabet. The article concludes with brief consideration of problems that have arisen in the reading and interpretation of runic inscriptions, and a plea is entered for a critical and dispassionate approach to runological endeavour. Keywords: runology, theory, methodology, graphemes, transliteration, inter- pretation Introduction n recent years several scholars have presented critical examinations of Ithe state of runology. They have offered varying views of the subject and suggested different ways forward. Most recently James Knirk has obtained funding for a project (Lesning og tolkning av runeinnskrifter: runo logiens teori og metode, ‘The reading and interpretation of runic inscriptions: the theory and method of runology’) whose principal objectives are: (i) to define runology as a subject or field of research; (ii) to establish the theoretical (philological) basis for runological research; (iii) to evaluate and develop the subject’s methodological tools. The most Barnes, Michael P. “What Is Runology, and Where Does It Stand Today?” Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 4 (2013), 7–30. © 2013 Michael P. Barnes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. 8 • Michael P. Barnes important outcome of the project is to be a Handbook of Runology. Such a work will differ from previous introductions to the subject. Rather than offer a general survey of runes and runic inscriptions, it will lay down a methodological basis for the study of runic script and the examination, reading and interpretation of inscriptions. For the first time a text-book will be available for the student of runes, showing how things should, or at least might, be done. This is a project of some significance. Runic writing is of considerable linguistic, historical and cultural importance, and the study of runic writing in all its aspects is badly in need of critical reappraisal. Those working with runes require at the very least: (i) a definition of the subject; (ii) a statement of accepted, or at least acceptable, methodological procedures; (iii) a series of constraints within which they can work. Without these minimum requirements “runology” is anything and everything: it is unclear where it begins and ends, and there is no obvious dividing line between the serious practitioner and the charlatan.
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