Ottar Grønvik

Ottar Nicolai Grønvik (21 October 1916 – 15 May 2008) was a Norwegian philologist and runology scholar.

He was a lecturer from 1959 and associate professor from 1965 to 1986 at the University of Oslo. His doctoral thesis, which earned him the dr.philos. degree in 1981, was Runene på Tunesteinen.^[1] He was best known for his work on the runic alphabet and various runestones, especially the Tune Runestone, the Rök Runestone and the Eggjum stone.

Bibliography

• Luthertexte für sprachgeschichtliche und grammatische Übungen (1960)
• Runene på Tunesteinen: alfabet, språkform, budskap (1981)
• The Words for "Heir", "Inheritance", and "Funeral Feast" in Early Germanic (1982)
• Die dialektgeographische Stellung des Krimgotischen und die krimgotische cantilena (1983)
• Runene på Eggjasteinen: en hedensk gravinnskrift fra slutten av 600-tallet (1985)
• Über den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Aktiven Perfekt- und Plusquamperfektkonstruktionen des Hochdeutschen und Ihre Eigenart Innerhalb des Germanischen Sprachraumes [On the Origin and the Development of the Active Perfect and Pluperfect Constructions of High German and Their Characteristic Within the Germanic Linguistic Area] (1986)
• Fra Ågedal til Setre: sentrale runeinnskrifter fra det 6. århundre (1987)
• Fra Vimose til Ødemotland : nye studier over runeinnskrifter fra førkristen tid i Norden (1996)
• Untersuchungen zur Älteren nordischen und germanischen Sprachgeschichte (1998)
• Der Rökstein: Über die religiöse Bestimmung und das weltliche Schicksal eines Helden aus der frühen Wikingerzeit (2003)

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