Ottar Grønvik

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

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. 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 (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 (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 the Development of the Active Perfect and Pluperfect Constructions of High German and Their Characteristic 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 (1998)
• Der Rökstein: Über die religiöse Bestimmung und das weltliche Schicksal eines Helden aus der frühen Wikingerzeit (2003)