Scandinavian Runic-text Database
type: Dataset
description: The database contains all Nordic runic text, including ones found outside of the Nordic countries. The text are provided in transliterised and normalised form, plus translated to English. Attached to the texts is information on time period, area of discovery, excerpt source, object type, image links, geographic coordinates etc. A variety of different searches can be made in the text files using specially designed software. The database contains approximately 6500 scriptures. Together with search programs and a user manual the database can be locally downloaded to your own computer. Lacks the Dala scriptures, Purpose: The aim of the project has been to collect all Nordic rune-texts, including those found outside the Nordic countries, in a machine-readable format for the benefit of a number of disciplines.
citation: Elmevik, Lennart och Peterson, Lena, 1997: Samnordisk runtextdatabas: slutrapport. I: Nytt om runer 12. S. 33-34.
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Peterson, Lena, 1994: Scandinavian Runic-text Database: a Presentation. Im: The Twelfth Viking Congress. Developments Around the Baltic and North Sea in the Viking Age. Ed. Björn Ambrosiani & Helen Clarke. Stockholm. (Birka studies 3.) pp. 305-309.
citation: Williams, H. och Lagman, S. (1989) Beskrivning av datorlagringen av det vikingatida runmaterialet. I Runrön 1. Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet
citation: Källström, Magnus, 2005: Gamla och nya vägar till Sveriges runinskrifter. En kritisk översikt av källpublikationerna för svenska runtexter. I: Historisk tidskrift 2005:2. S. 300-308.
conditions of access: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
conditions of access: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
contributor: Marco Bianchi
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Bianchi
  given name: Marco
contributor: Magnus Källström
  type: Person
  affiliation: Swedish National Heritage Board
  family name: Källström
  given name: Magnus
creative work status: completed
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creator: Lena Peterson
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Peterson
  given name: Lena
creator: Lennart Elmevik
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Elmevik
  given name: Lennart
creator: Henrik Williams
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Williams
  given name: Henrik
date modified: 2020-11-25
date published: 2020-11-25
language: Swedish
keywords: HISTORY
keywords: History and Archaeology
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  term code: 601
keywords: History
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  term code: 60101
keywords: Archaeology
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  term code: 60103
keywords: Languages and Literature
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  term code: 602
keywords: Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
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  term code: 60201
keywords: Studies of Specific Languages
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  term code: 60202
keywords: Iron Age
keywords: runes
keywords: Late Iron Age
keywords: linguistics
keywords: Middle Ages
keywords: 13th century
keywords: 15th century
keywords: Early Iron Age
keywords: 12th century
keywords: 14th century
keywords: texts
publisher: Uppsala University
spatial coverage: Sweden
spatial coverage: Denmark
spatial coverage: Faroe Islands
spatial coverage: Iceland
spatial coverage: Norway
spatial coverage: United Kingdom
temporal coverage: 0200/1523
version: 1

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Uppsala University
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department: Department of Scandinavian Languages

Swedish National Heritage Board
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department: Förvaltningsavdelningen

Swedish
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description: Use note: In addition to this broader topic, use another topic for historical data. Example: for data on the working environments of family doctors in the 1960s, use HISTORY and 'Working conditions' plus 'Health care services and policies'. Use the HISTORY topic on its own only if a more specific topic cannot be found in this vocabulary.
term code: History

Sweden
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Denmark
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Faroe Islands
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Iceland
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Norway
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United Kingdom
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