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Reading Runes 2014. Program and Abstracts CONTENTS The Organising Committee ... 2 Lilla Kopár ....................................... 36 Program ..................................... 3 Jana Krüger ..................................... 37 Tuesday, Sept. 2 .............................. 4 Jurij Kuzmenko .............................. 38 Wednesday, Sept. 3 ........................ 6 Lennart Lind ................................... 39 Thursday, Sept. 4 ............................ 8 Cecilia Ljung ................................... 40 Excursions. Friday, Sept. 5 ........... 10 Alexander K. Lykke ....................... 41 Mikael Males ................................... 42 Keynote Lecture Abstracts ..... 11 Edith Marold ................................... 43 Helmer Gustavson ......................... 11 Bernard Mees .................................. 44 James E. Knirk ................................ 13 Klaus Johan Myrvoll ..................... 45 Michael Lerche Nielsen ................ 14 Alessandro Palumbo ..................... 46 Session Abstracts ...................... 16 Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath ............ 47 Christiane Zimmermann .............. 16 Peter Pieper ..................................... 48 Cecilia Ljung & Marjolein Stern 17 Roland Schuhmann ....................... 50 Paper Abstracts ......................... 18 Inmaculada Senra-Silva ................ 51 Gunnar Andersson & Kerstin O. Terje Spurkland .............................. 52 Näversköld .................................. 18 Rikke Steenholt Olesen ................ 53 Michael P. Barnes........................... 19 Marjolein Stern............................... 54 Alessia Bauer .................................. 20 Alix Thoeming ................................ 55 Wolfgang Beck ............................... 20 Luzius Thöny .................................. 56 Stig Eliasson .................................... 21 Fredrik Valdeson ............................ 56 Ekaterina Eroshkina ...................... 22 Aya Van Renterghem .................... 58 Martin Findell ................................. 23 Michelle Waldispühl ..................... 59 Andreas Fischnaller ....................... 24 Gaby Waxenberger ........................ 60 Daniel Föller .................................... 25 Nancy L. Wicker ............................ 60 Irene García Losquiño .................. 26 Henrik Williams ............................. 61 Anne-Sofie Gräslund ..................... 27 Kendra Willson............................... 62 Martin Hansson & Per Stille ....... 28 Ute Zimmermann .......................... 63 Lisbeth M. Imer .............................. 29 Poster Abstracts ........................ 64 Judith Jesch ..................................... 30 Ilya Egorov ...................................... 64 Jay Johnston .................................... 31 Andreas Fischnaller & Anne Magnus Källström ......................... 31 Hofmann ..................................... 65 Kerstin Kazzazi & Christiane Nik Gunn et al. ............................... 66 Zimmermann.............................. 32 Loraine Jensen ................................ 66 Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt ...................... 33 Minoru Ozawa ................................ 67 Karoline Kjesrud ............................ 34 Andrey Volgushev ......................... 68 Elise Kleivane ................................. 35 Kristel Zilmer .................................. 69 THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE • Marco Bianchi, Uppsala University • Lennart Elmevik, Uppsala University • Staffan Fridell, Uppsala University • Svante Fischer, Uppsala University • Anne-Sofie Gräslund, Uppsala University • Magnus Källström, Swedish National Heritage Board • Patrik Larsson, Dalarna University • Cecilia Ljung, Stockholm University • Alessandro Palumbo, Uppsala University • Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath, Uppsala University • Per Stille, Linnæus University • Henrik Williams, Uppsala University • Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, Swedish National Heritage Board Conference assistants • Maria Rossipal, Swedish National Heritage Board • Hanna Åkerström, Uppsala University 2 The Organising Committee PROGRAM Monday, 1 September 16:00–21:00 Registration 17:00–19:00 Bus from Arlanda to Sunlight Hotel1 18:30–20:30 Optional supper2 Tuesday, 2 September (see pp. 4 and 5) 08:00–09:45 Registration 10.00–10:25 Opening ceremony 10:30–18:10 Plenary and parallel sessions, lunch and coffee breaks 19:00–20:00 Reception with short lecture and exhibition presentation1 20:00–22:00 Light meal1, cash bar3 Wednesday, 3 September (see pp. 6 and 7) 09:00–14:55 Plenary, parallel and poster sessions, lunch and coffee breaks 15:30, 15:50 Bus to the archaeological site of Släbro, Nyköping1 18:30, 18:50 Buses back to Sunlight1 18:30–20:30 Optional supper2 Thursday, 4 September (see pp. 8 and 9) 09:00–16:55 Plenary, parallel and poster sessions, lunch and coffee breaks 17:00–17:30 Conclusion – next symposium 19:00–00:00 Conference dinner at Nyköping Castle, Gästabudssalen4 Friday, 5 September (see p. 10) 08:00–18:00 Bus excursions to the Rönö area and the Eskilstuna area4 18:30–20:30 Optional supper2 Saturday, 6 September Departure 1) Included in the registration fee. 2) No charge for Sunlight resort guests. 3) Not included in the registration fee. 4) Separate fee. Program 3 Tuesday R 08:00−09:45 Outside Industrihallen O 10:00−10:25 Industrihallen P L Industrihallen Chair: Henrik Williams Helmer Gustavson 10:30−11:25 Discovery – Some Swedish inscriptions in the older futhark and their nd circumstances L 11:30−12:55 Restaurant D R G Industrihallen Salen Chair: Henrik Williams Chair: Marco Bianchi Roland Schuhmann Jana Krüger 13:00−13:25 Readings of Runic Inscriptions Der Gebrauch von punktierten and their Eect on Runen in dänischen Early Germanic Grammar Runeninschri¢en Aya Van Renterghem K. Kazzazi & C. Zimmermann 13:30−13:55 Reassessing the Anglo-Saxon Structural and terminological Runic Poem: Reading Runes challenges of a bilingual with Early Editors German-English RuneS database Nancy L. Wicker Ute Zimmermann 14:00−14:25 Bracteates and Beverages: Rune oder Nichtrune? – Zur alu in Light of the Discovery of Unterscheidung von Runen, runen- a New Bracteate from Scalford ähnlichen Zeichen … [English] C¯¯ B° 14:30−14:55 Lounge 4 Program 2 September 2014 D R G Industrihallen Salen Chair: Judith Jesch Chair: Staan Fridell 15:00−15:25 Anne-Sofie Gräslund Alessandro Palumbo Kristet eller hedniskt? Graphonomical analysis of runic Re ektioner om bildinnehållet glyphs and the use of på U 448 runic forms in medieval Gotland 15:30−15:55 Terje Spurkland Michelle Waldispühl Hér var han, ok heðan fór han út: Between epigraphic and Runic inscriptions as a source runo-graphic analysis: for pilgrimages [Norwegian] exploring the boundaries 16:00−16:25 Sofia Peresweto-Morath Gaby Waxenberger Om svårigheterna med a Graphemes: etablera läsningar ¡ör run- Reconstruction and Interpretation inskri£er på metall¡öremål … 16:30−16:40 S¦ B§ D O Industrihallen Salen Chair: Patrik Larsson Chair: Edith Marold 16:45−17:10 Fredrik Valdeson Rikke Steenholt Olesen Vg 199 – E ¡örsta utkast Cast censers with runes till en tolkning 17:15−17:40 Henrik Williams Alix Thoeming Rs · uRstr · o · ualu · på Ög 83, Temporality and Regionality e tolknings¡örslag av nekrologen in the Rune-Stones of Viking Age Sweden 17:45−18:10 Stig Eliasson Irene García Losquiño Scandinavian runic epigraphy in an Documenting Evolution: unidenti¶ed language? Inscription- Purpose-Grouping in the internal linguistic consistency … Older Runic Inscriptions 19:00−20:00 S¦ L ¸ E¹º¦ P¦ Industrihallen 20:00−22:00 Lars Norberg (Sörmlands museum) Nyköping – an iron age harbour, a medieval town and the kings’ castle R¦: L» M¼ ¸ C B Restaurant Program 5 Wednesday P L Industrihallen Chair: Magnus Källström James E. Knirk 09:00−09:55 Documentation of Runic Inscriptions C B 10:00−10:25 Lounge R M O Industrihallen Salen Chair: Magnus Källström Chair: Christiane Zimmermann Alessia Bauer Bernard Mees 10:30−10:55 Fallstudie zu den isländischen Elmer Antonsen as a runologist runica manuscripta [English] Wolfgang Beck Ekaterina Eroshkina 11:00−11:25 Reading runes in Runologi i undervisningen late medieval manuscripts Inmaculada Senra-Silva Karoline Kjesrud 11:30−11:55 Reading the D and M Runenes makt: hvem eier runene? runes in the Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels: A Reanalysis L 12:00−13:25 Restaurant P P 12:50−13:25 Via Nik Gunn et al. A New Runic Inscription From Viking Age Cleveland Andreas Fischnaller & Anne Hofmann Dokumentation von Runeninschri¤en mit Hilfe von Re¦ectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Minoru Ozawa How many rune stones Swein Forkbeard raised? A contribution to reconstructing the commemoration strategy of the Jelling dynasty Kristel Zilmer ‘Sight words’ in medieval runic inscriptions – a strategy of runic literacy? 6 Program 3 September 2014 R G D Industrihallen Salen Chair: Terje Spurkland Chair: Marit Åhlén 13:30−13:55 Edith Marold Michael P. Barnes Normalisierung und Transkrip- Documenting the Scandinavian tion, ihre Funktionen und runic inscriptions of the British Isles: Anwendungsmöglichkeiten … Confessions of a ¡eld runologist 14:00−14:25 Andreas Fischnaller Lisbeth M. Imer Die ¢ellen der ersten gedruckten ¦e Greenlandic Runic skandinavischen Runen [English] Inscriptions – the Tradition of Writing in the North Atlantic 14:30−14:55 Jurij Kuzmenko Peter Pieper Hur rungra®ti på mynt kan Ergebnisse der Neuunter- hjälpa vid tolkningen av andra suchungen der Runeninschri±en runinskri±er … von Bad Ems und Beuchte 15:30−19:00 E² E³ Släbro 15:30 Departure
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