Visti
When writing the previous entry about the Husby runestone, I came across the Scandinavian runic-text Database and I had an idea. The database requires a Windows client program to access and search, and I was sure I could do something with Google AppEngine that would bring the database to the web - searchable and mappable.
I spent a Sunday of "mead fueled berzerker coding", and the result after about ten hours is this:
You can search for...
...and much more.
The site is named after the carver of the Husby runestone, Visäte, who signed that stone "uisti risti" or "Visäte carved". At the moment, only about 6000 objects of the ~11000 in the database are indexed - partly because that's how the AppEngine free tier quota works, mostly because I'm still working on the data conversion.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.