Titre du document / Document title

Runesten og magt i Østjylland = Rune stones and power in eastern Jutland

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

ØEBY NIELSEN Gunhild ;

Résumé / Abstract

Rune stones are obvious examples of interdisciplinary source material. Text and language, pictures and ornamentation, location and distribution, as well as the political, social and cultural context are different angles of incidence that combine to make the rune stones source material for philologists, archaeologists and historians of art, religion etc. The interdisciplinary method has proved to be fruitful but it has also unveiled a need for clarification and communication between the researchers. It is the aim of the present publication to contribute to that. One angle of incidence is the obviously uneven distribution of rune stones. In the present article I discuss this and present as an example the rune stones' concentration in Eastern Jutland. The argument is that the rune stones must be seen in their different contexts, both in regard to time and space, rather than as an aggregate group which spreads continuously from the south to the north, in a synchronic rather than in a diachronic perspective. Earlier proposed theories regarding the rune stones in Eastern Jutland are presented and discussed and on the whole rejected: The rune stones in the region do not reflect social or economic conditions.

Revue / Journal Title

Hikuin   ISSN 0105-8118 

Source / Source

2005, n^o32, [Note(s): 105-124, 129 [21 p.]]

Langue / Language

Suedois
Revue : Danois

Editeur / Publisher

Forlaget Hikuin, Højbjerg, DANEMARK  (1974) (Revue)

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 23213, 35400014235387.0090