Vimose inscriptions

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 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