Ottar Nicolai Grønvik (21 October 1916 – 15 May 2008) was a Norwegian

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and runologist. He was a lecturer from 1959 and associate professor from 1965 to 1986 at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

. His doctoral thesis, which earned him the dr.philos. degree in 1981, was ''Runene på Tunesteinen''. He was best known for his work on the

runic alphabet Runes are the Letter (alphabet), letters in a set of related alphabets, known as runic rows, runic alphabets or futharks (also, see ''#Futharks, futhark'' vs ''#Runic alphabets, runic alphabet''), native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were ...

and various runestones, especially the Tune Runestone, the Rök runestone and the Eggjum stone.

Bibliography

* ''Luthertexte für sprachgeschichtliche und grammatische Übungen'' exts by Luther for exercises in historical linguistics and grammar(1960) * ''Runene på Tunesteinen: alfabet, språkform, budskap'' (1981) * ''The Words for "Heir", "Inheritance", and "Funeral Feast" in Early Germanic'' (1982) * ''Die dialektgeographische Stellung des Krimgotischen und die krimgotische cantilena'' he position of Crimean Gothic in dialect geography and the Crimean Gothic cantilena(1983) * ''Runene på Eggjasteinen: en hedensk gravinnskrift fra slutten av 600-tallet'' (1985) * ''Über den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der aktiven Perfekt- und Plusquamperfektkonstruktionen des Hochdeutschen und ihre Eigenart innerhalb des germanischen Sprachraumes'' n the origin and development of the active perfect and pluperfect constructions of High German and their peculiarities within the Germanic linguistic area(1986) * ''Fra Ågedal til Setre: sentrale runeinnskrifter fra det 6. århundre'' (1987) * ''Fra Vimose til Ødemotland : nye studier over runeinnskrifter fra førkristen tid i Norden'' (1996) * ''Untersuchungen zur älteren nordischen und germanischen Sprachgeschichte'' tudies in older Norse and Germanic linguistic history(1998) * ''Der Rökstein: Über die religiöse Bestimmung und das weltliche Schicksal eines Helden aus der frühen Wikingerzeit'' he Rök Stone: Of the religious destiny and worldly fate of a hero in the early Viking era(2003)

References

1916 births 2008 deaths Germanic studies scholars Linguists of Germanic languages Writers on Germanic paganism Runologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo 20th-century Norwegian linguists {{Norway-linguist-stub