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Abstract
The article concerns the importance of newly discovered runic inscriptions in relation to older finds of runic inscriptions, especially regarding the reading of inscriptions. The point of departure are two newly found runic inscriptions from Denmark and Greenland, respectively, namely the Thor’s hammer from Kobelev on Lolland, found in 2014, and a cross arm for a small wooden cross, found in Gardar in Greenland in 2012. Both objects carry inscriptions that have a significant meaning to the reading and partly also the interpretation of older finds of inscriptions from Greenland as well as from Copenhagen. The Kobelev Thor’s hammer has shown that more self-referential inscriptions of the type where the subject is followed by the verb es ‘is’ might be discovered in older material. The cross arm from Gardar has shown that the runic form j in more Greenlandic inscriptions is a variant of M. Hence, the inscription on the steatite mould from Gardar, found in 1926, is now to be read : amor… These few examples show that new finds of runic inscriptions often contribute to the runic corpus with more than just an inscription. A newly discovered runic inscription is often the piece that completes the puzzle so that older finds of uninterpreted inscriptions finally make sense.
Abstract
The article concerns the importance of newly discovered runic inscriptions in relation to older finds of runic inscriptions, especially regarding the reading of inscriptions. The point of departure are two newly found runic inscriptions from Denmark and Greenland, respectively, namely the Thor’s hammer from Kobelev on Lolland, found in 2014, and a cross arm for a small wooden cross, found in Gardar in Greenland in 2012. Both objects carry inscriptions that have a significant meaning to the reading and partly also the interpretation of older finds of inscriptions from Greenland as well as from Copenhagen. The Kobelev Thor’s hammer has shown that more self-referential inscriptions of the type where the subject is followed by the verb es ‘is’ might be discovered in older material. The cross arm from Gardar has shown that the runic form j in more Greenlandic inscriptions is a variant of M. Hence, the inscription on the steatite mould from Gardar, found in 1926, is now to be read : amor… These few examples show that new finds of runic inscriptions often contribute to the runic corpus with more than just an inscription. A newly discovered runic inscription is often the piece that completes the puzzle so that older finds of uninterpreted inscriptions finally make sense.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort VII
- Inhaltsverzeichnis XI
- The Finn Episode in Beowulf: Its Beginning, its Conclusion, and Some Further Textual Notes 1
- Manuskript-Runen im Kontext des medizinisch-botanischen Schrifttums: Zur Funktion bestimmter Runeneinträge 19
- Eddische Dichtung und skandinavische Ballade: Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft 33
- Í eino briósti ec sác aldregi fleiri forna stafi. Der Begriff stafr in der eddischen Dichtung und den metrischen Runeninschriften 53
- Die dreizehn Geschichten auf dem Runenstein von Rök 65
- The Porosity of Kennings and Kenning Patterns 85
- Überlegungen zur Bild- und Runenritzung von Aspö in Södermanland (Sö 175) 95
- The Term rekit in Háttalykill and Háttatal 109
- Norwegian runestones with inscriptions in the older Futhark: a socio-topographical sketch from an archaeological point of view 121
- The Fatal Role of Women in Medieval Icelandic Literature – the example of Njáls saga 147
- The Northernmost Runic alu 163
- Was ist die Mehrzahl von „Milch“? Lexikalische Plurale im Nordfriesischen und im Jütischen 169
- Gamle fund – nye opdagelser 193
- Hier mun standa stainn at merki: Ett par bidrag till tolkningen av inskriften på Hogränstenen (G 203) 205
- Love and Eroticism in Medieval Norwegian Runic Inscriptions 217
- Ironische Kenningar 233
- Was bedeuten die Runen rmþï in der Runeninschrift auf dem Stein von By? 243
- Unsichtbare Grabhügel 261
- The phonological systems of Biblical Gothic and Crimean Gothic compared 277
- Bergakker Revisited 291
- Darraðarljóð and Njáls saga 299
- Die Überlieferung des Jütischen Gesetzes (1241) 315
- Fuþorc Rune 31: Überlegungen zu Form und Funktion 323
- Historische Anthropologie in der Altnordistik 339
- Hans Kuhn, das Nordische Institut und die Anfänge der Nordfriesischen Wörterbuchstelle 347
- The name of the rune æsċ: The Transformation of the Common Germanic rune *ansuz to Pre-OE rune æsċ 363
- A far-travelled word: Old Norse skeið ʻracecourse, running trackʼ in early literature and place-names 379
- Þórr and wading 411
- Interdisziplinäre Interpretation: Theoretische Grundlagen und methodische Ansätze 429
- Schriftenverzeichnis Edith Marold 449
- Indices 463
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort VII
- Inhaltsverzeichnis XI
- The Finn Episode in Beowulf: Its Beginning, its Conclusion, and Some Further Textual Notes 1
- Manuskript-Runen im Kontext des medizinisch-botanischen Schrifttums: Zur Funktion bestimmter Runeneinträge 19
- Eddische Dichtung und skandinavische Ballade: Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft 33
- Í eino briósti ec sác aldregi fleiri forna stafi. Der Begriff stafr in der eddischen Dichtung und den metrischen Runeninschriften 53
- Die dreizehn Geschichten auf dem Runenstein von Rök 65
- The Porosity of Kennings and Kenning Patterns 85
- Überlegungen zur Bild- und Runenritzung von Aspö in Södermanland (Sö 175) 95
- The Term rekit in Háttalykill and Háttatal 109
- Norwegian runestones with inscriptions in the older Futhark: a socio-topographical sketch from an archaeological point of view 121
- The Fatal Role of Women in Medieval Icelandic Literature – the example of Njáls saga 147
- The Northernmost Runic alu 163
- Was ist die Mehrzahl von „Milch“? Lexikalische Plurale im Nordfriesischen und im Jütischen 169
- Gamle fund – nye opdagelser 193
- Hier mun standa stainn at merki: Ett par bidrag till tolkningen av inskriften på Hogränstenen (G 203) 205
- Love and Eroticism in Medieval Norwegian Runic Inscriptions 217
- Ironische Kenningar 233
- Was bedeuten die Runen rmþï in der Runeninschrift auf dem Stein von By? 243
- Unsichtbare Grabhügel 261
- The phonological systems of Biblical Gothic and Crimean Gothic compared 277
- Bergakker Revisited 291
- Darraðarljóð and Njáls saga 299
- Die Überlieferung des Jütischen Gesetzes (1241) 315
- Fuþorc Rune 31: Überlegungen zu Form und Funktion 323
- Historische Anthropologie in der Altnordistik 339
- Hans Kuhn, das Nordische Institut und die Anfänge der Nordfriesischen Wörterbuchstelle 347
- The name of the rune æsċ: The Transformation of the Common Germanic rune *ansuz to Pre-OE rune æsċ 363
- A far-travelled word: Old Norse skeið ʻracecourse, running trackʼ in early literature and place-names 379
- Þórr and wading 411
- Interdisziplinäre Interpretation: Theoretische Grundlagen und methodische Ansätze 429
- Schriftenverzeichnis Edith Marold 449
- Indices 463
