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Research group Scandinavian philology and language history

Scandinavian philology and language history is one of the research groups within Swedish and Scandinavian Languages. It brings together researchers interested in the study of language and literature from older times, preferably from the runic, Old Swedish, Old Icelandic and Early modern periods.

Handwritten document from the first half of the 16th Century.
Olaus Petri's Cronichle [Cröneke] D411.

The research group focuses mainly on Scandinavian philology and the history of Scandinavian languages and literature.

Group members

Group managers

Roger Andersson

Professor i nordiska språk

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Roger Andersson. Professor i nordiska språk. Foto: Ingmarie Andersson
roger.andersson@su.se
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Jonatan Pettersson

Universitetslektor och Docent

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
08-16 34 68
Jonatan Pettersson
jonatan.pettersson@su.se
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Members

Giorgio Basciu

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Fatta marzo 2025
giorgio.basciu@su.se
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Johan Brandtler

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Johan Brandtler
johan.brandtler@su.se
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Louise Faymonville

Studieadministratör

Stockholm Business School
08-16 19 36
Louise Faymonville
louise.faymonville@sbs.su.se
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Mikael Kalm

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Mikael Kalm
mikael.kalm@su.se
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Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
076-841 11 41
Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath
sofia.pereswetoff-morath@su.se
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Fredrik Valdeson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Södertörn University / Culture and Education
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Research projects

AI in the service of runology

The project's main goal is to create an AI assistant that will find answer a user's questions with help of the Scandinavian Runic database.

Runstone with glowing grren runes. Made by Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath using AI.
Birgitta of Sweden: the texts in Old Swedish

The aim of the project is a critical edition of the entire Old Swedish text corpus of Birgitta’s (1303–1373) texts, both her revelations and other shorter texts. An additional goal is to provide transcriptions of all manuscripts including fragmentary material.

Heliga Birgitta, skulptur Vadstena klosterkyrka
Swedish Runestones for everyone

The projects aim is to make Swedish runestones accessible to the public by creating an application that shows which runestones are near the user. The user will receive reliable and up-to-date information on each stone's location, condition, reading, interpretation and dating.

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