Anne Haavaldsen and Espen S. Ore

RUNES IN BERGEN

Preliminary report from the project "Computerising the runic
inscriptions at the Historical museum in Bergen"

1. English edition

The picture on the front page is an adaption of part of a photo of B625, BRM110/01711.
Photographer: Svein Skare, Bergen Museum, University of Bergen

Centre report 71
ISBN 82-7283-086-8
ISSN 0804-8800

Published by
(Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
Harald Hårfagresgt. 31)

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HIT-Centre,
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N-5007 Bergen, Norway
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E-mail: Espen.Ore@nb.no

Electronic version by Tor Espe and Espen S. Ore

Norsk versjon

Contents

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• Preface
• 1. Introduction
  • Project organisation
  • Project work:
  • This report
• 2. On the runic material from Bergen
  • The excavations
  • The artefacts
  • The dating
  • Sorting of inscriptions.
  • Transliteration of the inscriptions
• 3. Survey of the B/BRM/N and the brnr-numbers.
• 4. B/BRM-numbers without identifiable runes.
• 5. B/BRM-numbers with only a personal mark.
• 6. B/BRM-numbers with capitals.
• 7. B/BRM-numbers with rune-like characters.
• 8. B/BRM-numbers with remainders of runes.
• 9. B/BRM-numbers with incomprehensible inscriptions.
• 10. B/BRM-numbers with cryptic runes.
• 11. B/BRM-numbers with complete or partly extant fuþork inscriptions.
• 12. Personal names
• 13. Inscriptions on artefacts other than wooden sticks.
• 14. Bibliography.

First published in this version January 1997.

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Questions about the contents of the database can be sent to: espen.ore@nb.no or Espen S. Ore, IT, National Library of Norway, Oslo Division PO.BOX 2674, Solli, NO-0203 Oslo. Telephone: (+47) 23 27 61 25, telefax: (+47) 23 27 60 10

For technical problems, please contact IT-support at the NBO: drift-nbo.nb.no

Later corrections:

July 23, 1997: > corrected to þ in TOC entry for Ch. 11

October 24, 2002: adjustments to the pages as they are moved to the National Library of Norway. Special information about Macintosh system fonts has been removed. ESO

November 5, 2002. URL-errors corrected. ESO

January 7, 2003. URL-errors corrected. ESO