Author: George Stephens
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: George Stephens
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Heri: p 96: Vordingborg-stenen, pp. 102-03: Bårse stenen (fragment), p 188: Lekkende brakteat.

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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Livia Kaiser
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311072832X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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The scattered research history of the Old Frisian runic inscriptions dating to the early Medieval period (ca. AD 400–1000) calls for a comprehensive and systematic reprocessing of these objects within their socio-cultural context and against the backdrop of the Old English Runic tradition. This book presents an annotated edition of 24 inscriptions found in the modern-day Netherlands, England and Germany. It provides the reader with an introduction to runological methodology, a linguistic commentary on the features attested in the inscriptions, and a detailed catalogue which outlines the find history of each object and summarizes previous and new interpretations supplemented by pictures and drawings. This book additionally explores the question of Frisian identity and an independent Frisian runic writing tradition and its relation to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon runic culture. In its entirety, this work provides a rich basis for future research in the field of runic writing around the North Sea and may therefore be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and early Medieval history and archaeology.

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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: Raymond Ian Page
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159461
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.

Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: Auguste Julius Clemens Herbert baron de Reuter
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Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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