Bautil is a fundamental Swedish runological work by the priest,

runologist Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics. History Runology was initiated by Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), who was very interested in the lingu ...

and

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Johan Göransson, published in 1750. The full title of the work is: ''Bautil, det är: alle Svea ok Götha rikens runstenar, upreste ifrån verldenes år 2000 til Christi år 1000; för detta, efter glorvördigast i åminnelse konung Gustaf Adolfs ok konung Karl XI:tes befallning afritade ok til största delen : uti former inskurne; men nu, efter vår allernådigaste konung Fridrich I:stas befallning ok riksens högloflige ständers begäran, med några anmärkningar utgifne af Johan Göransson.'' ''Bautil'' is strongly influenced by the ideas of

Olaus Rudbeck Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as ''Olaus Rudbeckius'') (13 September 1630 – 12 December 1702) was a Swedish scientist and writer, professor o ...

(also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder). When he made the compilation, Göransson used drawings and transcripts made by

Johan Hadorph Johan Hadorph (May 6, 1630 – July 12, 1693) was a Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities. He was appointed National Antiquarian at the government agency for antiquities, and he became its director-general. Hadorp ...

Johan Peringskiöld Johan Peringskiöld (6 October 1654 – 24 March 1720) was a Swedish antiquarian. Biography Johan Peringer was born at Strängnäs in Södermanland County, Sweden. His father Lars Fredrik Peringer (1613-1687) was senior master at the gymnasi ...

, Nils Wessman, Petrus Törnevall and others. It is the first collection of depictions of Swedish

runestones A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but most of the runestones da ...

that was intended to be complete, and the work has been of great importance for the modern knowledge of runestones and runic inscriptions. The greatest significance of ''Bautil'' is that many now lost runestones are depicted there. It contains 1,173

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. Thunberg 2010, pp. 12-13.

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''Bautil''
digitized.

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''Bautil'' on Libris, National Library of Sweden
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