Ottar Grønvik

Ottar Nicolai Grønvik (21 October 1916 – 15 May 2008) was a Norwegian philologist and runologist.

He was a lecturer from 1959 and associate professor from 1965 to 1986 at the University of Oslo. His doctoral thesis, which earned him the dr.philos. degree in 1981, was Runene på Tunesteinen.[1] He was best known for his work on the runic alphabet and various runestones, especially the Tune Runestone, the Rök runestone and the Eggjum stone.

Bibliography
  • Luthertexte für sprachgeschichtliche und grammatische Übungen [Texts by Luther for exercises in historical linguistics and grammar] (1960)
  • Runene på Tunesteinen: alfabet, språkform, budskap (1981)
  • The Words for "Heir", "Inheritance", and "Funeral Feast" in Early Germanic (1982)
  • Die dialektgeographische Stellung des Krimgotischen und die krimgotische cantilena [The position of Crimean Gothic in dialect geography and the Crimean Gothic cantilena] (1983)
  • Runene på Eggjasteinen: en hedensk gravinnskrift fra slutten av 600-tallet (1985)
  • Über den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der aktiven Perfekt- und Plusquamperfektkonstruktionen des Hochdeutschen und ihre Eigenart innerhalb des germanischen Sprachraumes [On the origin and development of the active perfect and pluperfect constructions of High German and their peculiarities within the Germanic linguistic area] (1986)
  • Fra Ågedal til Setre: sentrale runeinnskrifter fra det 6. århundre (1987)
  • Fra Vimose til Ødemotland : nye studier over runeinnskrifter fra førkristen tid i Norden (1996)
  • Untersuchungen zur älteren nordischen und germanischen Sprachgeschichte [Studies in older Norse and Germanic linguistic history] (1998)
  • Der Rökstein: Über die religiöse Bestimmung und das weltliche Schicksal eines Helden aus der frühen Wikingerzeit [The Rök Stone: Of the religious destiny and worldly fate of a hero in the early Viking era] (2003)

References
  1. Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Ottar Grønvik". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 30 December 2010.


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