Thursday 21 March turns out to be a great day for runic talks!

At 18.00 at the Gamla Uppsala Museum, Magnus Källström (Riksantikvarieämbetet) will talk about runic inscriptions on objects.

Earlier that day, the Runstenarnas Tid seminarium takes place at Stockholms läns museum 12.30-17.00. Registration for this event ends tomorrow.

And over in Denmark, the Minisymposium om runer og runesprog takes place 13.15-17.15 at the Syddansk Universitet in Odense.

The proceedings of the 31. tværfaglige vikingesymposium are out now. It contains the following contributions:

• Judith Jesch: ‘Reading the Jelling Inscription’
• Jens Peter Schjødt: ‘Kristningen af Norden: en diskussion af religions-typologiske karakteristiska ved henholdsvis hedenskaben og kristendommen’
• Else Roesdahl: ‘…vandt sig Danmark al … – hvad mente Harald?’
• Mads Kähler Holst, Mads Dengsø Jessen and Anne Pedersen: ‘Runestenes Jelling’

Buy the publication here, it costs only 50 DKK.