MAS3000 - Spring 2005

Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
24.01.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 4 (hour will be announced later)

Materials: stone, metal, bone, wood. Technical help: magnifying glass, binocular microscope etc.?

31.01.2005James Knirk? Viking Ship Museum, Bygd?y, 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 5 (hour will be announced later)

Examination of stones; cleaning of stones?

07.02.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 6 (hour will be announced later)

Examination of metal and bone; cleaning and care of bone. Naming and description of objects, measurements. Description of runes, measurements; uncertain readings, corrections.?

14.02.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 7 (hour will be announced later)

Examination of wood; conservation of wood, cleaning/care of wooden objects. Carving on wood; dotted runes on wood; stave church inscriptions.?

21.02.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 8 (hour will be announced later)

Photography: lighting, photographic techniques.?

28.02.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 9 (hour will be announced later)

Drawing (freehand, documentation; illustrations, impressions, positive casts/copies?

07.03.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 10 (hour will be announced later)

Museum work: accesion, cataloguing, research and publication; storing, finding. Archives: the Runic Archives (photographs, paper archivalia)?

14.03.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 11 (hour will be announced later)

Runic databases; runic bibliography; refrence works. Publications of runic inscriptions; examination of runic inscripptions.

Week 12 and 13: no lectures?

04.04.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 14 (hour will be announced later)

Modern inscriptions; falsifications, i.a. Kensington stone. Examination of runic inscriptions.?

11.04.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Lecture? Week 15 (hour will be announced later)

Planning of semester projects. Editing of "Nytt om runer" (mini-assignment)?

18.04.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? ? Week 16 (hour will be announced later)

Archival work on semester projects. Editing of "Norges innskrifter med de yngre runer"?

25.04.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? ? Week 17 and 18

Supervision of semester projects.?

09.05.2005James Knirk? Runic Archives, Fredriks gate 3, 0164 Oslo (centre of Oslo), 12.15 - 14.00? Field work: excursion? Week 19

Making popular-scientific information sheets and public signs (mini-assignment)?

01.06.2005? ? All semester papers are to be handed in on the 1st of June, 2.00 p.m. at latest.? ?
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