Vimose inscriptions

Finds from Vimose, Funen, Denmark, include some of the very oldest datable Elder Futhark runic inscriptions in late Proto-Germanic or early Proto-Norse from the 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 of Alla" [3]

• Vimose Woodplane (ca. 300) talijo gisai oj: wiliR [..]la o[...] / tkbis: hleuno: an[.]: regu [4]

• Vimose Sheathplate (c. 300): awgns; possibly "son/descendant of Awa" [5]

• Vimose Spearhead: [w]agni[ŋ]o [6]

See also

• Illerup
• Meldorf fibula
• Thorsberg moor

References

• Seebold, Elmar (1994). "Die sprachliche Deutung und Einordnung der archaischen Runeninschriften". In Düwel, Klaus; Neumann, Hannelore et al. Runische Schriftkultur in Kontinental-Skandinavischer und -Angelsächsischer Wechselbeziehung. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 56–94. ISBN 3-11-014328-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=yIYYisHnijsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

External links

• Runic inscriptions from the first period