A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Material and written culture in medieval Turku: Runic inscriptions from an urban environment




AuthorsPalumbo Alessandro, Harjula Janne

EditorsWillson Kendra

Publication year2024

Book title Runes in Finland

Series titleSkrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland

Number in series875

First page 71

Last page101

ISBN978-951-583-608-3

eISBN978-951-583-634-2

ISSN0039-6842

Web address http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-583-634-2


Abstract

I became interested in runes when I compiled a presentation of rune staffs in the almanac archive of the Almanac Office at the University of Helsinki (“Finländska runstavar”). I observed there was no objective book on runes in Finnish, so I wrote my own (Riimut: Viestejä viikingeiltä 2015) which describes Finnish rune staffs, runic objects, and runestones. When I wrote the book there were two Finnish entries in the Scandinavian runic-text database (Sw. Samnordisk runtextdatabas): one brooch and one stone. My book describes an additional six well-documented objects with runic signs (five coins and one wooden cup), and one (disputed) inscription in stone, the Sund Cross from Åland, with the same runes cut in a cliff near Kastelholm



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