Editing Runology (section)

==History==
Runology was initiated by [[Johannes Bureus]] (1568–1652), who was interested in the linguistics of the ''[[Geat]]ish language'' (''Götiska språket''), i.e. [[Old Norse]]. However, he did not look at the runes as merely an alphabet, but rather something holy or magical.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110922981.453/pdf|doi = 10.1515/9783110922981.453|chapter = Johannes Bureus and the Runic Traditions|title = Das fuþark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen|year = 2006|last1 = Stille|first1 = PER| pages=453–458 |isbn = 9783110922981}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/8521903|title=A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650|first=Matthew|last=Norris|date=10 July 2016|publisher=Lund University|type=thesis/docmono|via=lup.lub.lu.se}}</ref>

The study of runes was continued by [[Olaus Rudbeck|Olof Rudbeck the Elder]] (1630–1702) and presented in his collection ''Atlantica''. The [[physicist]] [[Anders Celsius]] (1701–1744) further extended the science of runes and traveled around Sweden to examine the ''bautastenar'' ([[megaliths]], today termed [[runestone]]s). Another early treatise is the 1732 ''Runologia'' by [[Jón Ólafsson of Grunnavík]].
 
The sundry runic scripts were well understood by the 19th century, when their analysis became an integral part of the [[Germanic studies|Germanic philology]] and [[historical linguistics]].
[[Wilhelm Grimm]] published his ''Über deutsche Runen'' in 1821, where among other things he dwelt upon the "[[Marcomannic runes]]" (chapter 18, pp.&nbsp;149–159). In 1828, he published a supplement, titled ''Zur Literatur der Runen'', where he discusses the ''[[Abecedarium Nordmannicum]]''.

[[Sveriges runinskrifter]] was published from 1900. The dedicated journal ''Nytt om runer'' has been published by the "Runic Archives" of the Museum of Cultural History at the [[University of Oslo]] from 1985. The [[Rundata]] project, aiming at a machine-readable catalogue of runic inscriptions, was initiated in 1993.