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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/SKT2FA |
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Publication Date
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2026-11-03 |
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Title
| LangMix corpus of bilingual and biscriptal inscriptions from medieval Scandinavia |
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Author
| Palumbo, AlessandroUniversity of OsloORCID0000-0002-1891-4922 |
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Point of Contact
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Palumbo, Alessandro (University of Oslo) |
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Description
| The datased consists of inscriptions from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and Greenland, which are dated to ca 1100–1550, and which include the following combinations of Latin language, Scandinavian vernacular, Roman alphabet, and runic alphabet: 1) bilingual but monoscriptal runic 2) biscriptal but monolingual vernacular 3) biscriptal but monolingual Latin 4) bilingual and biscriptal 5) monolingual Latin and monoscriptal runic.
The dataset was compiled within the project Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia (LangMix), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 839290. For the publications relative to the project, see: https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/multilingual-landscapes-of-medieval-scandinavia/ (2023-04-04) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| Epigraphy
Runes
Historical multilingualism
Historical biscriptality |
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Related Publication
| Palumbo, Alessandro (2022). How Latin is runic Latin? Thoughts on the influence of Latin writing on medieval runic orthography. I Marold, Edith & Zimmermann, Christiane (Red.), Studien zur runischen Graphematik: Methodische Ansätze und digitale Umsetzung. Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk. ISSN 978-91-986950-2-1. s. 177–218. doi 10.33063/diva-462705 https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-462705
Blennow, Anna & Palumbo, Alessandro (2022). Epigrafiska områden i medeltidens Västergötland: ett samspel mellan latinsk och runsk skriftkultur. Fornvännen. ISSN 0015-7813. 117(3), s. 181–197. urn urn:nbn:se:raa:diva-6687 https://raa.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1702741/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Blennow, Anna & Palumbo, Alessandro (2021). At the Crossroads between Script Cultures: The Runic and Latin Epigraphic Areas of Västergötland. I Johansson, Karl G. & Horn, Anna Catharina (Red.), The Meaning of Media: Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110694970. s. 39–70. doi 10.1515/9783110695366-003 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695366-003
Palumbo, Alessandro (2023). Analysing bilingualism and biscriptality in medieval Scandinavian epigraphic sources: a sociolinguistic approach. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 9(1). 69–96. doi 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0006 https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2022-0006
Palumbo, Alessandro & Harjula, Janne (2024). Material and Written Culture in Medieval Turku: Runic Inscriptions from an Urban Environment. In Kendra Willson (ed.), Runes in Finland. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. issn 9789515836083 https://www.sls.fi/wp-content/uploads/mfiles/2886/2886.pdf
Palumbo, Alessandro (2025). From the Vernacular to Latin: Social Functions and Indexicalities in Bilingual and Biscriptal Epitaphs of Medieval Scandinavia. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 100 (4): 1045–83. doi 10.1086/737383 https://doi.org/10.1086/737383 |
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Language
| English; Swedish |
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Producer
| University of Oslo (UiO) https://www.uio.no/english/ |
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Contributor
| Project Leader: Palumbo, Alessandro
Data Curator: Sæbø, Anne |
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Funding Information
| European Commission: 839290 |
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Distributor
| University of Oslo (UiO) https://dataverse.no/dataverse/uio |
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Depositor
| Palumbo, Alessandro |
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Deposit Date
| 2023-04-04 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 1100; End Date: 1550 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2020; End Date: 2023 |
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Data Type
| inscription data |
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Data Source
| Scandinavian runic-text database through the interface Runor: https://app.raa.se/open/runor/search; Various authors, Sveriges runinskrifter; Various authors, Norges innskrifter med de yngre runer (various authors); Jacobsen, Lis & Moltke, Erik, 1941–1942, Danmarks runeindskrifter; Blennow, Anna, 2016, Sveriges medeltida latinska inskrifter 1050-1250: edition med språklig och paleografisk kommentar; Gardell, Sööve, 1945–1946, Gravmonument från Sveriges medeltid |