Ragnhild Ljosland was the main organiser of this conference, assisted by Anna Paaso, Lynn Campbell and Alex Sanmark. International conference with 29 participants from 9 countries. The Orkney Rune Rede 9th Full-Day Runic Colloquium was in the series of runic colloquia initiated by Uppsala Runic Forum and funded by the Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamhallet (Swedish Royal Society for Humanities).