Vimose inscriptions

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Coordinates: 55.46° N 10.18° E

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

[edit] Literature

  • 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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