Vimose inscriptions

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

The Vimose Comb, 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 second to third centuries A.D.

• 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]

References

• 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.

See also

• Illerup
• Meldorf fibula
• Thorsberg moor

External links

• Runic inscriptions from the first period