Runes & their Secrets

Preface; Standardised futharks: A useful tool or a delusion?; On OEpirs pictures; How to Do Things with Runes: A Semiotic Approach to Operative Communication ; Rune-names: the Irish connection; Dating the Swedish Viking-Age rune stones on stylistic grounds; Runic writing and Latin literacy at the end of the Middle Ages: A case study ; The introduction and use of runic letters on Danish coins around the year 1065; South Germanic runic inscriptions as testimonies of early literacy; Ligatures in Early Runic and Roman Inscriptions; Runes in the First Century; The Early Runic Inscriptions and Germanic Historical Linguistics; Anglo-Saxon Runes: some statistical problems; The Jelling Monuments -- Ancient royal memorial and modern world heritage site; From Tune to Eggja -- the ontology of language change; Chronology and Typology of the Danish Runic Inscriptions; The yew-rune and the runes Y, G, h and i in the Old English Corpus (Epigraphical Material); Bracteate Inscriptions through the Looking Glass: A Microscopic View of Manufacturing Techniques; Christian Runic Inscriptions in a Dynamic Context; Closing Speech, Fifth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Jelling: August 2000.