UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
------------Final exam
NFI1100
Runology – General Introduction
Autumn semester 2014
Time: 25 November at 9:00 (4 hours)
Place: Lesesal D Sophus Bugges hus
The following dictionaries are allowed:
Modern language – English dictonaries/Ordbok mellom eit moderne språk og engelsk
(3 pages including front page)
Page 1 of 3
All three questions must be answered;
either in Norwegian/Swedish/Danish or English.
1) Transliterate and translate this inscription. Interpret the inscription with a
focus on characters, language, subject matter, artefact and function.
Translitterer og oversett denne innskriften. Tolk innskriften med vekt på
tegninventar, språk, innhold, gjenstand og funksjon.
2) Give a characterization of runic inscriptions in the older fuþark – alphabet,
language, subject matter, and artefact.
Gi en karakteristikk av runeinnskrifter i eldre fuþark – alfabet, språk,
innhold og gjenstand.
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3) What may the following inscription tell us about the two script
community in the Norwegian Middle Ages?
Hva kan følgende innskrift fortelle oss om to-skriftkulturen i norsk
middelalder?
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