Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions (Northern World, 4)

Contents......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 12
List of maps......Page 14
1. Introduction......Page 15
2. History of runic research......Page 16
3. The fuþark and the rune names......Page 19
4. The meaning of the word rune......Page 21
5. Points of departure......Page 22
6. England and the Netherlands......Page 25
8. The Continent......Page 26
9. The Scandinavian peninsula......Page 27
10. Diagnostic runeforms......Page 28
11. Methods......Page 29
12. Division into runic periods......Page 32
14. Anomalous runes and doubtful cases......Page 35
1. Introduction......Page 41
2. From the pre-Roman Iron Age to the late-Germanic Iron Age......Page 44
3. The emergence of an elite......Page 45
4. Votive deposits in the Danish bogs......Page 51
5. Bracteates......Page 54
6. Denmark and the Goths in South-east Europe......Page 59
7. The Continent......Page 62
8. The Breza column (Bosnia) and its fuþark inscription......Page 64
9. England......Page 76
10. The Netherlands......Page 82
11. The Borgharen find and its Merovingian context......Page 88
1. Introduction......Page 92
2. The quest......Page 93
3. Runes and Romans on the Rhine......Page 96
4. More Roman connections......Page 102
5. The first runewriters......Page 107
6. The West Germanic hypothesis......Page 108
7. Conclusions......Page 113
8. Some thoughts on the development of the runic writing system......Page 115
1. Classification of contents......Page 119
2. Runic writing and runewriters......Page 120
3. Some backgrounds of early runic writing......Page 121
4. Runes and rituals......Page 127
5. Comparing the corpora......Page 129
6. The Frisian corpus......Page 132
7. Frisian and Anglo-Saxon runic peculiarities......Page 135
8. Runes in Denmark and South-east Europe......Page 140
9. Continental runewriting......Page 141
10. Runes on bracteates......Page 143
11. North Sea coastal links: ornamental runes, rune-crosses, multiple-line runes and mirror-runes......Page 145
12. The influence of Latin......Page 147
13. Syntaxis and division marks......Page 148
15. Diagnostic runeforms: k, j/g, s, h, l, e......Page 149
16. The yew rune......Page 152
17. The fate of the j rune, Gmc *jāra OE gēr, jār......Page 156
CATALOGUE......Page 161
1. Introduction......Page 163
2. Checklist; Period I, legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions......Page 167
3. Recent finds......Page 182
4. Illegible and/or uninterpretable inscriptions......Page 183
5. Gothic runic finds......Page 185
6. Period II, the Blekinge inscriptions......Page 190
7. Summary and conclusions......Page 197
8. A new explanation of the Blekinge texts......Page 202
1. Introduction......Page 204
2. Alu......Page 208
3. Auja......Page 210
4. Fuþark......Page 211
6. Laukaz......Page 213
7. Checklist runic bracteates......Page 215
8. Conclusions......Page 236
1. Introduction......Page 237
2. Checklist; legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions......Page 240
3. Recent finds......Page 278
4. Illegible and/or uninterpretable inscriptions......Page 280
5. The Weser inscriptions......Page 281
7. The shift ai > ae; the interchange of u and w and of b and w......Page 282
8. Summary and conclusions......Page 283
1. Introduction......Page 287
2. Checklist; Period I, legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions......Page 290
3. Illegible or uninterpretable inscriptions and single-rune inscriptions......Page 303
4. Recent finds......Page 306
5. Possibly runic, non-runic and ornamental signs......Page 308
6. Summary and conclusions......Page 309
1. Introduction......Page 313
2. Checklist; legible and interpretable inscriptions......Page 317
3. Legible but uninterpretable inscriptions......Page 338
4. Summary and conclusions......Page 339
1. Stones......Page 343
2. Miscellaneous......Page 350
4. Conclusion......Page 351
Norway......Page 352
1. Stones......Page 353
2. Brooches......Page 366
3. Scrapers and a comb......Page 368
4. Miscellaneous......Page 370
5. Cliff inscriptions......Page 372
6. Conclusion......Page 373
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 375
D......Page 393
J......Page 394
P......Page 395
V......Page 396
W......Page 397
PLATE SECTION......Page 398