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The Vikings Begin … with runes

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Category: Education
Start date: 27 Sep 2019 06:30 PM
End date: 27 Sep 2019 08:00 PM
Street / Location: 2600 Park Avenue
City / town: Minneapolis
Country: Minnesota, USA
Organizer: American Swedish Institute
Name: Emily
Email: emilyk@asimn.org
Phone: 612.871.4907
Homepage: www.asimn.org/programs-education/events/henrik-williams-vikings-begin-runes-0

The world of runes is one of wonders. Runic inscriptions are the only original sources from the Viking world. On runestones we meet the messages of the Vikings themselves, and this lecture will focus on particularly fascinating runic items from all over the world.

Presented by Henrik Williams, a specialist in Old Norse languages and a professor of Scandinavian languages at Sweden’s Uppsala University. As a philologist, he studies languages in written historical sources, essentially combining literary criticism, history and linguistics. A 40-year Minnesota Vikings football fan since his year here as an exchange student, in 2016 Williams advised the team on the authenticity and meaning of its symbols in order to debunk disinformation on Nordic myths and Viking symbols.

Cost: $10 ASI members / $15 non-members