This article discusses modern runic inscriptions from Orkney and Caithness. It presents various examples, some of which were previously considered “genuine”, and reveals that OR 13 Skara Brae is of ...
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The rune-carved block known as the Kensington stone came to light in the year 1898 on a farm in the vicinity of Kensington, Minnesota. Although the inscription dates itself to 1362, it is in many ways extremely difficult to reconcile a medieval origin with the runes and the language of the inscription. The inscription has the following content in a transliterated form in bold-face type (following Williams 2012, 5 f., but with our translation; note that an alternate reading for the first word in the third-to-last line is har):
{"title":"The Dialect of the Kensington Stone","authors":"S. Fridell, M. Larsson","doi":"10.33063/DIVA-384660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/DIVA-384660","url":null,"abstract":"The rune-carved block known as the Kensington stone came to light in the year 1898 on a farm in the vicinity of Kensington, Minnesota. Although the inscription dates itself to 1362, it is in many ways extremely difficult to reconcile a medieval origin with the runes and the language of the inscription. The inscription has the following content in a transliterated form in bold-face type (following Williams 2012, 5 f., but with our translation; note that an alternate reading for the first word in the third-to-last line is har):","PeriodicalId":30193,"journal":{"name":"Futhark International Journal of Runic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69487416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Cecilia Ljung. Under runristad häll. Vol. 1, Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige; vol. 2, Katalog över tidigkristna gravmonument. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology, 67.1–2. Stockholm: Explicare, 2016. 285 pp.; 350 pp. ISBN 978-91-983206-0-2; ISBN 978-91-983206-1-9.","authors":"Magnus Källström","doi":"10.33063/diva-384664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-384664","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30193,"journal":{"name":"Futhark International Journal of Runic Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69487462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}