title: ARE THERE RUNES ON THE BIRCH BARK STRIP FROM SMOLENSK?
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Pereswetoff-Morath, Sofia
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-02-15T14:54:04Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-02-15T14:54:04Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pereswetoff-Morath S. Are there runes on the birch bark strip from Smolensk? Scandinavian Philology, 2017, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 181–192.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2017.202
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9134
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The subject of the present article is a 12th-century strip of birch bark from Smolensk,
  which, according to E. A. Mel´nikova (1984) and S. L. Nikolaev (2017), is inscribed with
  Scandinavian runes of the younger Futhark. Mel´nikova’s reading and interpretation
  have been accepted in Russian scholarship but viewed with scepticism by Scandinavian
  runologists. For this reason, the inscription on the birch bark strip from Smolensk
  has not been included in Samnordisk runtextdatabas, the database of Scandinavian
  runic inscriptions. In addition, Mel´nikova was recently joined in her opinion that
  the Smolensk strip bears Scandinavian runes by Nikolaev, though his reading and interpretation of the inscription is quite different from hers. The author of the present
  article has studied the subject in situ in a binocular microscope and gives a detailed
  account of her observations. In the article, Mel´nikova’s and Nikolaev’s readings are
  analysed and arguments are put forward to demonstrate that the lines on the bark strip
  can be accepted neither as runes nor as any other kind of writing.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: other
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 15; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: runes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: runelike signs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: questionable runic inscriptions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: runic inscriptions on objects
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: birch bark
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reading and interpreting runic inscriptions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: ARE THERE RUNES ON THE BIRCH BARK STRIP FROM SMOLENSK?
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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