Basic research in social function of rune stones

本研究项目得出以下三个阶段的建议性结论。(1)建立并完善了一种符文石的历史分析方法：该方法告诉我们，要理解符文石的社会功能，必须注意符文文本与其所处语境的相互关系。（2）将我们新的分析方法应用于语料库，呈现符文石的社会功能：例如，丹麦国王哈拉尔·蓝牙在10世纪中叶为纪念他的父母而种植的杰灵符文石<th>，作为纪念碑的一部分，为前来杰灵宫的各种旁观者而建造（3）创造了中世纪早期的新景象：我们对如尼文石的研究表明，公元1000年左右的斯堪的纳维亚半岛是一个政治和文化的十字路口，不仅向周边的王国开放，而且向包括俄罗斯、伊斯兰和拜占庭文化在内的遥远的欧亚世界开放。

Our research project reaches following three stages of suggestive conclusion.(1) establishment and refinement of a method of historical analysis of rune stones : the method tells us that the interrelationship between text of runes and context in which they were inscribed should be noticed to understand social function of rune stones(2) presentation of social function of rune stones by applying our new analytical method to the corpus : As an example the Jelling rune stone, which king Harald Bluetooth of Denmark had raised in memory of his parents in the middle of the 10^<th> century, functioned as part of a monument which was constructed to various types of onlookers coming to Jelling palace(3) creation of a new vision of earlier Middle Ages : our study of rune stones showed us that Scandinavia around the year 1000 was a political and cultural crossroad which was not open only to its surrounded kingdoms but also far-stretching Eurasian world including Russian, Islamic and Byzantine cultures.