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Outline Biography
- Cand. Philol. (Trondheim)
- PhD (Edinburgh)
I have worked at Volda University College, the University of Lund, the University of Wisconsin, and I have been employed at the Scandinavian Section at the University of Edinburgh since 1989.
Research Interests
- Place-name studies; theory and methodology
- Scandinavian place-names in Scandinavia, Scotland and the North Atlantic area
- Scandinavian language and place-names in North America
- Scandinavian language history and dialectology
I welcome research applications in Scandinavian language history, place-name studies and dialectology, and I am keen to participate in interdisciplinary projects relating similar subjects.
My research is focused on place-names; in particular how larger patterns of name distribution can be used as a tool to indicate settlement history.
My research interest at the moment is on the early Viking period in Scotland and especially the early Norse place-names in the west of Scotland. Linked to this is my other area of research interest, which is languages and cultures in contact, as seen from onomastic studies but also from historical sources and archaeology. Publications centred on this theme are studies on the Norse in Scotland and the Scandinavians in North America.
Publications
Publications list for Arne Kruse
Teaching
- Norwegian 1B
- Norwegian Language and Literature 2
- Scandinavian Languages 2h
- Norwegian Honours, language
- Scandinavian Language History, Honours Option course
- Scandinavian Place-Name Studies, Honours Option course
- randes, Strindberg and Ibsen, Honours Option Course
This article was published on Oct 30, 2012