Sveriges runinskrifter (
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: "Sweden's rune inscriptions", ) is a multi-volume catalog of
rune
Runes are the letter (alphabet), letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, a ...
inscriptions found in various
Swedish
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provinces. The earliest volume of this ongoing series dates to 1900, and, by 1981, 15 volumes had been published.
''Sveriges runinskrifter'' established the standard cataloging system for Swedish rune inscriptions. Each inscription is identified by a province code and a catalog number. For example:
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U 11 -
Uppland
Uppland () is a historical province or ' on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhab ...
rune inscription 11
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Ög 179 -
Östergötland
Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English li ...
rune inscription 179
Today, this cataloging system is used by electronic databases such as
Rundata
The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( sv, Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way f ...
and commonly seen in scholarly publications. This cataloging system has also been imitated and extended by scholars in other countries.
See also
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Bautil
Bautil is a fundamental Swedish runological work by the priest, runologist and archaeologist Johan Göransson, published in 1750.
The full title of the work is: ''Bautil, det är: alle Svea ok Götha rikens runstenar, upreste ifrån verldenes ...
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List of runestones
There are about 3,000 runestones in Scandinavia (out of a total of about 6,000 runic inscriptions). p. 38.
The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia:
The majority is found in Sweden, estimated at between 1,700 and 2,500 (depending o ...
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Runic alphabet
Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...
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Runestone
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 ...
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Rundata
The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base ( sv, Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of runic inscriptions. The project's goal is to comprehensively catalog runestones in a machine-readable way f ...
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Upplands runinskrifter del 5, digital supplement)''
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External links
List of publications at the National Heritage Boardat the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
"Viking Answer Lady" rune bibliography
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Runology
Runic inscriptions