Texts & contexts of the oldest Runic inscriptions /
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Author / Creator: | Looijenga, Tineke. |
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 4 Northern world ; v. 4. |
Subject: | Inscriptions, Runic. Runes -- History. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German. Inscriptions, Runic. Runes. Runeninschrift Rune Futhark Runenschrift. Inscripties. Europa. Electronic book. Electronic books. History. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162159 |
Table of Contents:
- List of abbreviations
- List of maps
- CHAPTER ONE: RUNES, RUNOLOGY AND RUNOLOGISTS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History of runic research
- 3. The fuþark and the rune names
- 4. The meaning of the word rune
- 5. Points of departure
- 6. England and the Netherlands
- 7. Denmark
- 8. The Continent
- 9. The Scandinavian peninsula
- 10. Diagnostic runeforms
- 11. Methods
- 12. Division into runic periods
- 13. On the graphic rendering of runes, findspots, transliterations
- 14. Anomalous runes and doubtful cases
- CHAPTER TWO: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND RUNES.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From the pre-Roman Iron Age to the late-Germanic Iron Age
- 3. The emergence of an elite
- 4. Votive deposits in the Danish bogs
- 5. Bracteates
- 6. Denmark and the Goths in South-east Europe
- 7. The Continent
- 8. The Breza column (Bosnia) and its fuþark inscription
- 9. England
- 10. The Netherlands
- 11. The Borgharen find and its Merovingian context
- CHAPTER THREE: ON THE ORIGIN OF RUNES
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The quest
- 3. Runes and Romans on the Rhine
- 4. More Roman connections
- 5. The first runewriters
- 6. The West Germanic hypothesis.
- 7. Conclusions
- 8. Some thoughts on the development of the runic writing system
- CHAPTER FOUR: SUMMARY AND SOME CONCLUSIONS
- 1. Classification of contents
- 2. Runic writing and runewriters
- 3. Some backgrounds of early runic writing
- 4. Runes and rituals
- 5. Comparing the corpora
- 6. The Frisian corpus
- 7. Frisian and Anglo-Saxon runic peculiarities
- 8. Runes in Denmark and South-east Europe
- 9. Continental runewriting
- 10. Runes on bracteates
- 11. North Sea coastal links: ornamental runes, rune-crosses, multiple-line runes and mirror-runes
- 12. The influence of Latin.
- 13. Syntaxis and division marks
- 14. On the significance of runeforms
- 15. Diagnostic runeforms: k, j/g, s, h, l, e
- 16. The yew rune
- 17. The fate of the j rune, Gmc *jāra OE gēr, jār
- CATALOGUE
- CHAPTER FIVE: EARLY DANISH AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Checklist
- Period I, legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions
- 3. Recent finds
- 4. Illegible and/or uninterpretable inscriptions
- 5. Gothic runic finds
- 6. Period II, the Blekinge inscriptions
- 7. Summary and conclusions
- 8. A new explanation of the Blekinge texts.
- CHAPTER SIX: BRACTEATES WITH RUNES
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Alu
- 3. Auja
- 4. Fuþark
- 5. Laþu
- 6. Laukaz
- 7. Checklist runic bracteates
- 8. Conclusions
- CHAPTER SEVEN: CONTINENTAL RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Checklist
- legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions
- 3. Recent finds
- 4. Illegible and/or uninterpretable inscriptions
- 5. The Weser inscriptions
- 6. No runes
- 7. The shift ai> ae
- the interchange of u and w and of b and w
- 8. Summary and conclusions
- CHAPTER EIGHT: EARLY RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS IN ENGLAND
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Checklist.