Henrik Williams
Swedish runologist, professor of Scandinavian languages
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Henrik Williams's Degrees
- PhD Scandinavian Languages Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henrik Williams is a noted expert on runes. He is currently a Professor of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. Early life and education Williams was born in Kalmar, Sweden. After graduating from school in his hometown, he spent a year as an exchange student in Ohio. After returning to Sweden in 1978, he settled in Uppsala and enrolled at Uppsala University. He studied Scandinavian languages, and in 1983, when he spent some time as a faculty assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he became interested in researching runestones. When returning to Sweden he wrote his PhD thesis on Swedish runestones.
Henrik Williams's Published Works
Published Works
- The origin of the runes (1996) (10)
- Reasons for runes (2004) (8)
- The Romans and the Runes : Uses of Writing in Germania (1997) (8)
- The Rök Runestone and the End of the World (2020) (7)
- á austrvega. Saga and East Scandinavia : Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference. Uppsala 9th-15th August 2009 (2009) (7)
- The non-representation of nasals before obstruents - spelling convention or phonetic analysis? (1994) (5)
- Runestones and the conversion of Sweden (2008) (5)
- Vad säger runstenarna om Sveriges kristnande? (What do runestones tell us about the Christianization of Sweden?) (1996) (4)
- Bracteates and Runes (2013) (4)
- NORMALIZING OLD SWEDISH TEXTS : WHY NOT? (2017) (3)
- The Kensington Runestone : Fact and Fiction (2012) (2)
- Which came first, ᛖ or [⌈⌉]? Recension av Bengt Odenstedt: On the Origin and Early History of the Runic Script. Typology and Graphic Variation in the Older Futhark. (1992) (2)
- Read What's There: Interpreting Runestone Inscriptions (2010) (2)
- Runic inscriptions as sources of personal names (1998) (2)
- In what disguise do today’s readers want to meet the Eufemiavisor? : Normalized texts and the aims of textual philology. (2016) (2)
- Runstenarnas sociala dimension (2013) (2)
- The "AVM" Stone from Minnesota (Kensington II) (2002) (2)
- “Dead in White Clothes” : Modes of Christian Expression on Viking Age Rune Stones in Present-Day Sweden (2012) (1)
- Name borrowing among the Vikings (2005) (1)
- Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 1 : Containing selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Lancaster, 11–16 August 2005 (2010) (1)
- New names in a new land (1995) (1)
- Recension av Scott F. Wolter. The Hooked X : Key to the Secret History of North America (2009) (1)
- The Kensington Runestone on Exhibition in Sweden (2004) (1)
- Rune-stone Inscriptions and Queer Theory (2008) (1)
- From Meldorf to Haithabu : some early personal names from Schleswig-Holstein (2001) (1)
- Jan Axelson in memoriam (2020) (0)
- Rec. av Per Beskow a Reinhold Staats, Nordens kristnande i ett europeiskt perspektiv. Tre uppsatser (1995) (0)
- Swedish-American Naming Patterns (1994) (0)
- Review of David M. Krueger. Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-9691-8 (hardcover), 978-0-8166-9696-3 (paperback). (2021) (0)
- Comments on Michael Lerche Nielsen’s Paper (2014) (0)
- Rec. av Old English runes and their continental background (1991) (1994) (0)
- Möres kristnande : The Christianization of the region Möre (1993) (0)
- Review: Scott F. Wolter. The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America (2009) (0)
- Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 11 (2020) (2020) (0)
- Recension av Lena Peterson. Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2001) (0)
- Hvað er títt? : [What's up?] (1999) (0)
- Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 9–10 (2018–2019) (2020) (0)
- The Kensington Stone again : Were the Old Swedes in Minnesota in the 1300s? An expert says No! (2011) (0)
- Replik : queerteori och runstenar (2009) (0)
- American runsten funnen - read all about it (2015) (0)
- Runstenstexternas teologi : [The theology of runestone texts] (1996) (0)
- Norse romance. Vol. 3, Hærra Ivan (1999) (0)
- Corpus Editions of Runic Inscriptions in Supranational Databases (2022) (0)
- Till frågan om runsvenska dialekter : [On the question of Runic Swedish dialects] (1996) (0)
- Rec. av Rick McGregor: Per Olof sundman and the Icelandic sagas: A study of narrative method (1995) (0)
- Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 8 (2019) (0)
- Rec. av Michael P. Barnes a R. I. Page: The Scandinavian runic inscriptions of Britain (2007) (0)
- Till tolkningen av personnamnen på Gnistastenen (U 972) : [An interpretation of the personal names on the Gnista runestone (U 972)] (1996) (0)
- The importance of language history in the teaching of modern languages (1998) (0)
- Correction to Futhark Volume 3 (2013) (0)
- Blandade runstudier 3 (2004) (0)
- Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 5 : Containing proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Oslo, 9–14 August 2010. Part 2: Selected papers (2015) (0)
- Asagudarna var rädda för det kvinnliga : [The pagan gods were afraid of the female] (1998) (0)
- Reading Runes: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Nyköping, Sweden, 2–6 September 2014 (2021) (0)
- Rec. av Jan Owe, Svenskt runnamnsregister (1997) (0)
- Rec. av Runes and their secrets : studies in runology (2007) (0)
- II: 62 North American Perspectives – Suggested Runic Monuments (2018) (0)
- Personal names on rune stones as a source for the reconstruction of lost words (2010) (0)
- Nordic Strategies in Missionary Times : The Case of the Runestones (2009) (0)
- Rec. av Muriel Norde. The history of the genitive in Swedish. A study in degrammaticalization (1999) (0)
- Rec. av David M. Wilson, Vikingatidens konst (1995) (1995) (0)
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