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Scandinavian Runic-text Database

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.
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http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm

Citation and access

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Creator/​Principal investigator(s):

  • Lena Peterson - Uppsala University - Department of Scandinavian Languages
  • Lennart Elmevik - Uppsala University - Department of Scandinavian Languages
  • Henrik Williams - Uppsala University - Department of Scandinavian Languages

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Data contains personal data:

No

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Language:

Corpus

Foreseen use:

Human use

Method and outcome

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Geographic coverage

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Administrative information

Responsible department/​unit:

Department of Scandinavian Languages

Contributor(s):

  • Marco Bianchi - Uppsala University - Department of Scandinavian Languages
  • Magnus Källström - Swedish National Heritage Board - Förvaltningsavdelningen

Topic and keywords

CESSDA Topic Classification:

Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2025:

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Publications

Citation:

Elmevik, Lennart och Peterson, Lena, 1997: Samnordisk runtextdatabas: slutrapport. I: Nytt om runer 12. S. 33-34.

  • ISSN:

    0801-3756

Citation:

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.

Links:

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.

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