Corpus Editions of Swedish Runic Inscriptions

Autor: Magnus Källström
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies. 12:7-27
ISSN: 2003-296X
1892-0950
DOI: 10.33063/diva-491876
Popis: The idea of recording all the runic inscriptions of Sweden dates back to the early 1600s when Johannes Bureus laid the foundations for Swedish runic research. Only two older works can lay claim to the title of corpus editions: these include the collection of woodcut prints depicting more than eleven hundred Swed­ish rune-stones published in 1750 and known as Bautil, and Johan Gustaf Lilje­gren’s Run-urkunder of 1833 which transliterates all the runic inscrip­tions known at that time. In the early 1880s, the National Antiquarian Hans Hilde­brand laid plans for what would become the collected series Sveriges run­in­skrifter and in 1900 the first fascicle on the runic inscriptions of Öland was pub­lished. The immense contributions made from the late 1920s onwards, pri­mar­ily by Elias Wessén, Sven B. F. Jansson and Elisa­beth Svärd­ström, have en­sured that most of the Swedish provinces have today been covered, although a few provinces, mostly in Norrland, are still lacking and many of the earliest vol­umes require supplementation and revision predominantly because of new finds. The volumes in the series normally comprise two parts consisting of text and plates. Each inscription that belongs to the genuine runic tradition is given its own number and the inscriptions are usually ordered according to geo­graphical principles within each province. https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-491876
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