Vimose inscriptions


Coordinates: 55°28′N 10°11′E / 55.46°N 10.18°E / 55.46; 10.18

The Vimose Comb, housed at the National Museum of Denmark.

Finds from Vimose, Funen, Denmark include some of the very oldest datable Elder Futhark inscriptions in late Proto-Germanic or early Proto-Norse (2nd to 3rd centuries AD).

  • Vimose Comb (ca. 160, considered the oldest datable runic inscription altogether): harja [1]
  • Vimose Buckle (ca. 200) aadagasu =? ansuz-a(n)dag-a(n)su / laasauwija =? la-a[n]sau-wija; [2]
  • Vimose Chape (ca. 250): mariha || [.]ala / makija; possibly "Mari (the famous one) is the sword (c.f. Makhaira) of Alla" [3]
  • Vimose Woodplane (ca. 300) talijo gisai oj: wiliR [..]la o[...] / tkbis: hleuno: an[.]: regu [4]
  • Vimose Sheathplate (ca. 300): awgns; possibly "son/descendant of Awa" [5]
  • Vimose Spearhead: [w]agni[ŋ]o [6]

References

  • Seebold, Elmar, 'Die sprachliche Deutung und Einordnung der archaischen Runeninschriften' in: Runische Schriftkultur in kontinental-skandinavischer und -angelsächsischer Wechselbeziehung, Internationales Symposium in der Werner-Reimers-Stiftung vom 24.-27. Juni 1992 in Bad Homburg (=Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 10), ed. Düwel, Berlin, New York 1994, 56-94.

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