Material and written culture in medieval Turku: Runic inscriptions from an urban environment
: Palumbo Alessandro, Harjula Janne
: Willson Kendra
: 2024
: Runes in Finland
: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
: 875
: 71
: 101
: 978-951-583-608-3
: 978-951-583-634-2
: 0039-6842
: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-583-634-2
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