Kristel Zilmer
@kristelzilmer.bsky.social
Professor of runology (= runes & runic inscriptions, not urology), working with all things runic and more. Own views and random thoughts.
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Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions
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We present some results from our long-term work on the earliest #runestone found in an archaeologically datable context #runology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ordningen med Norgeskunnskap i utlandet har i mange år vært en viktig brobygger mellom Norge og mange andre land. Jeg har selv vært student og deretter underviser ved et lærested som fikk ta del i dette tilbudet. Støtt en god sak slik at ordningen ikke fjernes.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ordningen med Norgeskunnskap i utlandet har i mange år vært en viktig brobygger mellom Norge og mange andre land. Jeg har selv vært student og deretter underviser ved et lærested som fikk ta del i dette tilbudet. Støtt en god sak slik at ordningen ikke fjernes.
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The personification of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar. The other place (X) is filled with foul-mouthed unreasonable individuals. What a mess!
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The personification of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar. The other place (X) is filled with foul-mouthed unreasonable individuals. What a mess!
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
Ordningen med Norgeskunnskap i utlandet har i mange år vært en viktig brobygger mellom Norge og mange andre land. Jeg har selv vært student og deretter underviser ved et lærested som fikk ta del i dette tilbudet. Støtt en god sak slik at ordningen ikke fjernes.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ordningen med Norgeskunnskap i utlandet har i mange år vært en viktig brobygger mellom Norge og mange andre land. Jeg har selv vært student og deretter underviser ved et lærested som fikk ta del i dette tilbudet. Støtt en god sak slik at ordningen ikke fjernes.
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Most professors aren't in ivory towers. We're in old houses that need lots of maintenance and repairs.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Most professors aren't in ivory towers. We're in old houses that need lots of maintenance and repairs.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Norway, by the way: “The rise in wealth inequality over the recent four decades is driven by a rise in the wealth share of the top 1 per cent, while equalization among the bottom 99 per cent accounted for 70 percent of the reduction in wealth inequality from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.”
Samme ulikhet i Norge i dag, som i 1912
Nestoren i norsk forskning på ulikhet, Rolf Aaberge, har etter ti års arbeid publisert ny studie om fordeling av formue:
«Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019», heter notatet publisert av Statistisk sentralbyrå:
Nestoren i norsk forskning på ulikhet, Rolf Aaberge, har etter ti års arbeid publisert ny studie om fordeling av formue:
«Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019», heter notatet publisert av Statistisk sentralbyrå:
Konsentrasjonen av formue hos de én prosent rikeste er like høy i Norge som i USA. (+)
Konsentrasjonen av formue hos de én prosent rikeste er like høy i Norge som i USA.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Norway, by the way: “The rise in wealth inequality over the recent four decades is driven by a rise in the wealth share of the top 1 per cent, while equalization among the bottom 99 per cent accounted for 70 percent of the reduction in wealth inequality from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.”
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3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!
my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!
my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
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We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
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This telegram went to the Norwegian scholar Magnus Olsen in June 1917 - with the information that a stone inscribed with older runes had been found at Eggjum in Sogndal. Now known as the Eggja stone: kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/1ef4...
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This telegram went to the Norwegian scholar Magnus Olsen in June 1917 - with the information that a stone inscribed with older runes had been found at Eggjum in Sogndal. Now known as the Eggja stone: kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/1ef4...
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
This telegram went to the Norwegian scholar Magnus Olsen in June 1917 - with the information that a stone inscribed with older runes had been found at Eggjum in Sogndal. Now known as the Eggja stone: kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/1ef4...
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This telegram went to the Norwegian scholar Magnus Olsen in June 1917 - with the information that a stone inscribed with older runes had been found at Eggjum in Sogndal. Now known as the Eggja stone: kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/1ef4...
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
Runic Archives, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social #runology
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Vairāk par vārdu un tā izrunu meklējiet livonian.tech/meklesanas-r..., ierakstot vārdu “sōna”.
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “sōna”.
#līvõkēļ
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “sōna”.
#līvõkēļ
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Vairāk par vārdu un tā izrunu meklējiet livonian.tech/meklesanas-r..., ierakstot vārdu “sōna”.
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “sōna”.
#līvõkēļ
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “sōna”.
#līvõkēļ
I also keep thinking about how little validity some future research claims about originality and filling in the gaps will have, as the result of: a) less time and effort spent on reading and understanding, b) increasing use of tools that promise to deliver systematic literature reviews.
These days, we should also be teaching students more about meaningful engagement with existing scholarship instead of a constant hunt for (perceived) originality and “never-befores”.
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I also keep thinking about how little validity some future research claims about originality and filling in the gaps will have, as the result of: a) less time and effort spent on reading and understanding, b) increasing use of tools that promise to deliver systematic literature reviews.
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A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Research Vacancies | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
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One further note (pun intended): This manuscript contains a version of the hymn Voce jubilantes magna. In the Analecta Hymnica, a different version comes from a fourteenth-century English manuscript. This earlier attestation of a variant is very exciting.
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
One further note (pun intended): This manuscript contains a version of the hymn Voce jubilantes magna. In the Analecta Hymnica, a different version comes from a fourteenth-century English manuscript. This earlier attestation of a variant is very exciting.
This. Also: We’ve no idea how much groundbreaking research we might actually be missing out on when core research doesn’t have the opportunity to gradually unfold, take place without being tailored to surface claims about high impact and fantastic deliverables.
We need more "unfunded" research, not less. Or rather, we need more "core" funding and much less project based funding. Then universities can *invest* in core research infrastructure (including people), reduce precarity, and focus on growing and retaining talent.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This. Also: We’ve no idea how much groundbreaking research we might actually be missing out on when core research doesn’t have the opportunity to gradually unfold, take place without being tailored to surface claims about high impact and fantastic deliverables.
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A parchment letter from 1386 was until recently the oldest evidence for the earliest ancestor of the Swedish-Finnish noble families Svinhufvud. The letter is a deed of sale through which a man called "Jønis Swinshwow" buys the manor Höjen with an adjacent farm. The upper right corner is damaged. 1/
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A parchment letter from 1386 was until recently the oldest evidence for the earliest ancestor of the Swedish-Finnish noble families Svinhufvud. The letter is a deed of sale through which a man called "Jønis Swinshwow" buys the manor Höjen with an adjacent farm. The upper right corner is damaged. 1/
“Når så enorme mengder med laks «kvalitetsnedskrives» og «feilrettes», altså at man kutter skinnet av fisken for å skjule at fisken har vært syk eller skadet før den ble slaktet, dekker man over et av de største dyrehelseproblemene vi har i norsk matproduksjon.” www.forskning.no/fisk-fiskehe...
NRKs lakseavsløring: Problemet er ikke at vi eksporterer fisk med sår
KOMMENTAR: Problemet er at fisk med sår er syk og lider. Å kutte skinnet av laksen før salg gjør ikke noe for å gjøre fisken friskere.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“Når så enorme mengder med laks «kvalitetsnedskrives» og «feilrettes», altså at man kutter skinnet av fisken for å skjule at fisken har vært syk eller skadet før den ble slaktet, dekker man over et av de største dyrehelseproblemene vi har i norsk matproduksjon.” www.forskning.no/fisk-fiskehe...
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Problemet til fiskeoppdrettsbransjen er at 99 % ødelegger for alle andre.
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Problemet til fiskeoppdrettsbransjen er at 99 % ødelegger for alle andre.
So interesting to learn about this: a manuscript bound in seal skin, with eight surviving pages, possibly among the earliest surviving books written in Norway. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So interesting to learn about this: a manuscript bound in seal skin, with eight surviving pages, possibly among the earliest surviving books written in Norway. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
“People listing Estonian as their native language in Estonia's population register will soon also be able to specify which dialect they speak.” news.err.ee/1609828089/e...
Estonian dialect speakers can list their language in official state records
People listing Estonian as their native language in Estonia's population register will soon also be able to specify which dialect they speak.
news.err.ee
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“People listing Estonian as their native language in Estonia's population register will soon also be able to specify which dialect they speak.” news.err.ee/1609828089/e...
‘It is surprising how little we still now about “what works” in science communication and why.’
Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
‘It is surprising how little we still now about “what works” in science communication and why.’
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New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
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Tirsdag kommer den. Den nye graveserien fra Brennpunkt. Om norsk oppdrett pr 2025, med introen "Lakseoppdrett har blitt en suksessnæring. Men under overflaten skjuler det seg et hav av lidelse, konflikt og ulovlig eksport. Har vi egentlig kontroll?"
Vi vet jo svaret.
Dette kommer til å smelle.
Vi vet jo svaret.
Dette kommer til å smelle.
Brennpunkt: Lakselandet - NRK TV
Lakseoppdrett har blitt en suksessnæring. Men under overflaten skjuler det seg et hav av lidelse, konflikt og ulovlig eksport. Har vi egentlig kontroll?
tv.nrk.no
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Tirsdag kommer den. Den nye graveserien fra Brennpunkt. Om norsk oppdrett pr 2025, med introen "Lakseoppdrett har blitt en suksessnæring. Men under overflaten skjuler det seg et hav av lidelse, konflikt og ulovlig eksport. Har vi egentlig kontroll?"
Vi vet jo svaret.
Dette kommer til å smelle.
Vi vet jo svaret.
Dette kommer til å smelle.