Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to
compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval …

THE EMERGENCE of churchyards is one of the most significant transformations of the
landscape during the conversion to Christianity. This article examines changes in burial and …

In den Studien zum medialen Aspekt stehen vorwiegend die graphe matischen Systeme
und ihre Realisierung im Zentrum, dh Fragen nach der Struktur, der historischen …

Resumé Rune stones are very clear evidence of the commemoration of the dead in the
Viking Age. The several thousand surviving runic monuments from that period may of course …

Crosses on Swedish rune-stones have been studied on numerous occasions, mostly in
isolation from other features of the monument. This article exam-ines the use of rune-stone …

The aim of this thesis is the visual analysis of the corpus of Viking Age Scandinavian
memorial stones that are decorated with figural images. The thesis presents an overview of …

This special issue of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada is the
result of a number of sessions organized by guest editors Yoav Tirosh and Simon Nygaard …

Abstract Slavery in Viking-Age and early medieval Scandinavia, earlier a topic mainly
addressed by legal and medieval historians, is receiving increased attention from the …

It is not difficult to find established interpretations of runestone texts that presuppose carving
errors. Sometimes these are obvious, especially when we are dealing with common words …

Im Jahre 1869 wurden in Sorte Muld auf der Insel Bornholm (Dänemark) von Amtmann E.
Vedel Guldgubber, kleine Goldblechfiguren, gefunden, auf denen Motive von menschlichen …