Arne Kruse
Honorary Fellow
- Scandinavian Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Background
Arne has worked at Volda University College, the University of Lund, the University of Wisconsin, and in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1989 to 2021.
Qualifications
- Cand. Philol. (Trondheim)
- PhD (Edinburgh)
Undergraduate teaching
- Norwegian Language 2
- Scandinavian Languages 2
- Norwegian Honours, language
- Scandinavian Language History, Honours Option course
- Scandinavian Place-Name Studies, Honours Option course
- Brandes, Strindberg and Ibsen, Honours Option course
- Viking Studies, Honours Option course
Postgraduate teaching
- Viking Studies, MSc course
- Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Scotland, MSc course
- MSc Translation Studies, Norwegian
Research summary
- 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
His research is focused on place-names; in particular how larger patterns of name distribution can be used as a tool to indicate settlement history. His 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 Arne's other area of research interest, which is languages and cultures in contact, as seen from onomastic studies but also from historical sources and archaeology. He has a number of publications centered on the Norse in Scotland and the Scandinavians in North America.
Arne is a founding member of the Hjaltland Network.
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On harbours and havens: Maritime strategies in Norway during the Viking Age
(15 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Magic language: The transmission of an idea over geographical distance and linguistic barriers
(32 pages)
In:
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, vol. 15, pp. 1-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/MRW.2020.0012
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Laithlind - pre-unified Norway?
(2 pages)
Newsletter › Other contribution (Published) -
The Norway to be: Laithlind and Avaldsnes
(33 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Scots: The role of language in civic nationalism
(25 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Laithlind
(37 pages)
In:
Namn og Nemne, vol. 32, pp. 49-86
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Ordet Ballvollen knytt til transnasjonal overføring av idéar
(17 pages)
In:
Historisk tidsskrift, vol. 93, pp. 407-24
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Columba and Jonah - a motif in the dispersed art of Iona
(26 pages)
In:
Northern Studies, vol. 45, pp. 1-26
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Tabu og fiske
(7 pages)
In:
Smølaminne, vol. 12
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Christiana og Eidswold: norske namm I den nye verda
(14 pages)
In:
Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, pp. 110-124
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)