Fragmentum Runico-Papisticum ('runic-papist fragment' in
Latin
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Old Danish
The Danish language developed during the Middle Ages out of Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish. It was a late form of common Old Norse. The Danish philologist Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen divided the history of Danish in ...
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Old Scanian Medieval Runic text, written in the 14th–15th century. It is one of the longest pre-modern runic texts to survive, only second to the
Codex Runicus.
The text was found around the year 1700 by Swedish antiquarian
Johan Peringskiöld
Johan Peringskiöld (6 October 1654 – 24 March 1720) was a Swedish antiquarian.
Biography
Johan Peringer was born at Strängnäs in Södermanland County, Sweden.
His father Lars Fredrik Peringer (1613-1687) was senior master at the gymna ...
,
found as six
parchment
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at
Vallentuna Church, Sweden.
It was published in 1721 by his son and successor
Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld
Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld (13 September 1689 – 2 March 1720) was a Swedish translator.
Johan was born in Stockholm, studied at Uppsala and was appointed as the successor of his father Johan Peringskiöld in 1712 as "translator antiquitatum ...
under the title "Fragmentum Runicum-Papisticum".
It is assumed to be a translation of a German work, as this type of text was very popular in Germany during the Middle Ages. However, it is not known when and how the manuscript ended up in
Vallentuna
Vallentuna is the seat of Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 33,219 inhabitants in 2018. Vallentuna's cultural landscape is well preserved, and human habitation in the area has been traced back as far as the Stone Age. Arche ...
in Sweden.
Gallery
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References
External links
{{commons cat, Fragmentum Runico-Papisticum
* https://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ182016203
Scanian runic manuscripts
14th-century books
15th-century books
Medieval runes
Runic inscriptions with ideographic runes