AARS, Uppsala University Ink Agreement

AARS, Uppsala University Ink Agreement

by | Nov 15, 2022

AARS President Loraine Jensen signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Uppsala University faculty leaders to support collaborative research. The American Association of Runic Studies and Uppsala University in Sweden have extended an agreement to collaborate on field...
Jensen Re-ignites Fulbright Specialist Activities

Jensen Re-ignites Fulbright Specialist Activities

by | Oct 13, 2022

  AARS President Loraine Jensen began a six week Fulbright Specialist Program appointment on Oct. 3 at Uppsala University in Sweden.  It is a continuation of a previous appointment in 2020 that was cut short due to the unprecedented Covid outbreak.  Her project...
Unique rune finds in the Medieval Park

Unique rune finds in the Medieval Park

by | Jan 1, 2022

In one week, archaeologists found two objects with runes in the Medieval Park in Oslo. One is made of bone, and is the first rune bone found in the capital in over forty years. The second is a rune stick with text in both Norse and Latin. Read the Norsk Institute...
Tristan Mueller-Vollmer Defends Dissertation

Tristan Mueller-Vollmer Defends Dissertation

by | Oct 21, 2021

Congratulations to AARS Blog author, Tristan Mueller-Vollmer http://runicstudies.org/tristan-mueller-vollmer/ Tristan successfully defended his important and interesting dissertation, Personal Names on Swedish Viking Age Runestones. The dissertation is now available...