Korpus
Digital runic research from Vitki
Korpus measures the whole runestone corpus at once – against soils, shorelines, place names, grave fields and roads – and tests every pattern against chance before we call it a finding. The journal is written for the curious reader with little time, and it is free: read it as a PDF in English or Swedish.
No. 1 · November 2026
The daughters who almost never got a stone, the young men who did not come home from their journeys and the names Swedes still carry. And a century of runic research, read at once.
20 pages · PDF
- 01The mapWhere the stones stand
- 02In numbersThe runestones in numbers
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- 05LanguageThor fell, the hero became a farmhand – which Viking names live on?Read the article on the website →
- 06WorkshopA century of runic research – read at once
- 07Method cornerWhat does p = 0.003 mean?
- 08In the appPeople: who raised the stone, and for whom?
- 09Next issueWhat we cannot see
Korpus No. 1 is also available in print. The printed edition is in Swedish – get in touch if you would like a copy sent to you.
Ask via the contact page →How to read Korpus
The headline, The number and In 30 seconds give you the finding and how certain it is.
The article tells how we got there, with charts in percent and the stones as examples.
How sure we are, the sources and the open data at vitkirunor.se let you test everything yourself.
About Korpus
Korpus is Vitki's journal of digital and quantitative runic research. Each issue gathers articles, a report from the workshop and a method note in a form that can be read over a coffee break.
Analyses are pre-registered: the plan is locked before we count, and when a result does not hold, we say so. The texts may be shared freely under CC BY 4.0; the images carry their own licences, given with each image.
Editor: Viktor Kvant. Get in touch
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