Michael Barnes

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Michael Barnes, professor of Scandinavian Studies at University College, London, holds a BA and an MA from UCL. He has written widely on the Scandinavian languages, notably on their development in the period AD c.200-1300. Professor Barnes' primary areas of interest are Norn, Runology and Faroese. His recent publications include:

The Runic Inscriptions of Viking Age Dublin (with J.R. Hagland and R.I. Page), Dublin, 1997
The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetland, Lerwick, 1998
'The transitional inscriptions' in Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplinärer Forschung, (ed. Düwel), Berlin, 1998
A New Introduction to Old Norse I: Grammar, London, 1999
'Norse and Norn' in Languages in Britain and Ireland, (ed. Price), Oxford, 2000
Från runsten till e-post: Utvärdering av svensk forskning i Nordiska språk (with Jan Terje Faarlund and Hans-Peter Naumann). Stockholm, 2000