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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Runes
Here's an extremely useful resource. The Swedish National Heritage Board has scanned the great multivolume corpus publication of Swedish runic inscriptions, Sveriges runinskrifter, and put it on-line for free. Currently as PDF files, but in the future there will...
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Category: Archaeology
Placing the runestone in the airport terminal ensures its protection from the rain and freeze-thaw cycle, and also makes it maximally accessible to the public.
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Category: Runes
One of the first things that stick out about the Kensington inscription is the unparallelled preponderance of numbers in it. The clincher is found in some simple cryptography.
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Category: Runes
Iarlabanki Ingefastson is probably the most copiously documented Scandinavian of the Viking Period. But his name does not occur even once on vellum.
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Category: Archaeology
Did you know that a huge majority of the runic inscriptions date from after the Christianisation of Scandinavia?
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Category: Archaeology
Now the runestone stands again, the site has been cleaned up, and the public is free to come see the most important early runic document to surface in many decades.
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Category: Archaeology
Runologist James E. Knirk has published a report on the recently found Hogganvik rune stone. His transliteration is[?]kelbaþewas:s(t)^ainaR:aaasrpkf aarpaa:inanana(l/b/w)oR eknaudigastiR ekerafaRHis translation isSkelba-þewaR's ["Shaking-servant's"] stone. (Alphabet magic: aaasrpkf aarpaa). ?Within/From within the ?wheel-nave/?cabin-corner. I NaudigastiR [="Need-guest"]. I, the Wolverine.So...
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Category: Archaeology
Inscriptions in the early 24-character futhark are rare. And when you find them, their messages are usually not straight-forward.
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Category: Skepticism
The Nazis were no strangers to occultism. But Friedrich Marby was too much even for Himmler: he invented runic aerobics.
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Category: Archaeology
Maja Bäckvall and Jannie Teinler are visiting rune stones and posing for photographs along with them. So far they've done 121 rune stones!
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Category: Archaeology
On the big rune stone, dating from about AD 1000, Torgärd's poetic commemoration of her maternal uncles can be read.
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Category: Archaeology
From about 1845 to 1930, Sweden saw massive emigration to the United States.
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Category: Archaeology
The runestone's visit to Stockholm didn't add to the discussion of the inscription's date.
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