Die Formelwörter der Goldbrakteaten

Heizmann, Wilhelm; Axboe, Morten

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“…Only the appearance of a single l ‐rune at the end of the inscription suggests what benefit may have been intended by the composition of the amulet's text, the appearance of the terms laþu ‘invocation’ or more commonly lauka r ‘leek’ (the latter presumably as a metonym for fertility) being fairly common in bracteate texts; see Düwel (; : 75–6; : 47–9), MacLeod & Mees (: 95) and cf. Heizmann (: 544–73).…”

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‘Giving’ and ‘Making’ in Early Runic Epigraphy

Mees

2012

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A survey of the early Germanic etymological semantics of ‘giving’ and ‘making’ is presented in light of the recent reaffirmation that early Nordic *taujan is etymologically related to Old Norse tœja ‘grant, bestow, help, assist’. Contextualising the early runic fabricatory and dedicatory inscriptions in terms of sociological, textual and anthropological theory, a new interpretation of early runic pragmatics is developed. The new approach to early runic performance proferred seeks to explain the broader function (and context) of epigraphic production, not merely the most logical reading of individual texts. The early runic pragmatics of ‘giving’ and ‘making’ are employed as an analytical frame in which to analyse the socio‐cultural as well as linguistic meaning of a series of both functionally and textually related, often significantly stylised Iron Age epigraphs found on a range of early Scandinavian media: runestones, moor finds and migration‐era amulets.

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“…in Landnámabók 's gott ey ‘good luck’); cf. Helgason (: 380–2), Grønvik (: 93–4), Nedoma (: 230) and Heizmann (: 580–1).…”

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Mees

2012

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Ek […]wraitalaþo

Poulsen

2020

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Scholars have previously interpreted the sequence wraitalaþo on the Trollhättan II Bracteate as wrait alaþō ‘I wrote the magical formula’, wrait ā laþō ‘I wrote laþu in(to)’ or wraita laþō ‘I wrote as an invitation’. The first and second interpretations are improbable for semantic, morphological and syntactic reasons. The third interpretation does not consider the linguistic consequences of the strong preterite 1sg ending being retained as -a in Proto-Norse (PN). I will argue that final -a was preserved in early PN after a stressed syllable, but was lost after an unstressed one. I will reconsider the group of PN inscriptions that attest strong preterite verbs. Finally, I will conclude that all definite evidence of the loss of -a belongs to a later period. One exception, however, is the much-debated inscription on the Reistad Stone, which lacks the syncope and has an original word-final -a in unnam(ʀ̣) wraita.

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Imer,

Vasshus

2023

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In 2020 a large gold hoard was discovered in Vindelev, Jutland, Denmark, containing almost 800g of gold. Among the hoard’s artefacts are six runic bracteates discussed here. Two bracteates give important contributions to central discussions in bracteate research. IK 737 is similar to the well-known bracteate IK 58 from Funen. It demonstrates that the much-discussed sequence does not read houaz, but rather horaz, weakening its direct connection to Óðinn through one of his many bynames. IK 738 has one of the best executed inscriptions on a bracteate. The inscription consists of 34 runes (including bind-runes) and its final sequence ‘He/who [is] Óðin’s man’ is a crucial contribution to the discussion of who is depicted on the bracteates, Óðinn or a king? The wording rather indicates the latter.

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Die Formelwörter der Goldbrakteaten

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‘Giving’ and ‘Making’ in Early Runic Epigraphy

‘Giving’ and ‘Making’ in Early Runic Epigraphy

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