Vimose inscriptions

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

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

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.

• Vimose Comb (c. 160, considered the oldest datable runic inscription altogether): harja

• Vimose Buckle (c. 200) aadagasu =? ansuz-a(n)dag-a(n)su / laasauwija =? la-a[n]sau-wija;

• Vimose Chape (c. 250): mariha || [.]ala / makija; possibly "Mari (the famous one) is the sword of Alla"

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

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

• Vimose Spearhead: [w]agni[ŋ]o

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. 

External links

• Runic inscriptions from the first period