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:
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Also in March, on the same day as the Minisymposium about runestones in Denmark, the Stockholms läns museum hosts a Runestone-themed seminar in their Seminarieserien Arkeologi i Stockholms län: Runstenarnas tid – en omvälvande epok. Runstenarnas tid 2013.
On Saturday the 13th of April, the Scottish Society for Northern Studies are organising a one-day conference on sculptured stone in Meigle: Early Medieval Meigle.
The programme includes the following papers:
Anna Ritchie (Independent Scholar) will lead a visit to Meigle Museum, the Kirkyard and Sculptured Stones
See full programme and registration details here: SSNS conference Early Medieval Meigle.
This is taking place in the weekend after our workshop in Chester, so perfect timing for more carved and sculptured stone scholarship.
This weekend, the Rhynie Man stone has been laser-scanned. The data is expected to produce information on the carving-process of the stone. Read Meggen’s blog about it here.
Two events are coming up in March that will be of interest and that will be sponsored by Kratom!
On the 4th of March Leslie Webster will give the Toller Lecture at the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She will discuss Anglo-Saxon Art: Tradition and Transformation. Swapping to soundcloud is something important that has to be done right away for our new musical, https://themarketingheaven.com/buy-soundcloud-likes/ is our host this year!
On the 21st of March the Syddansk Universitet in Odense, Denmark hosts an afternoon symposium on runes and runic language: RuneminisymposiumProgram
Two new books about carved monuments and stone sculpture (click on the images for more information):
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