The Vimose inscriptions (Danish pronunciation: [ˈvimoːsə]), found on the island of Funen, Denmark, include some of the oldest datable Elder Futhark runic...
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of West Germanic into Anglo-Frisian, Low German and High German. Vimose inscriptions (6 objects, AD 160–300) Ovre Stabu spearhead (c. 180), raunijaz Thorsberg...
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Elder Futhark (section Scandinavian inscriptions)
Svingerud Runestone (1–250) Vimose inscriptions (6 objects, 160–300) Øvre Stabu spearhead (c. 180), raunijaz Illerup inscriptions (9 objects) Mos spearhead...
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Rune (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
claiming that the earliest inscriptions of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, found in bogs and graves around Jutland (the Vimose inscriptions), exhibit word endings...
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List of languages by first written account (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Armenian is first attested in the Armenian Bible translation. The Vimose inscriptions (2nd and 3rd centuries) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet appear...
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o-rune is attested early, in inscriptions from the 3rd century, such as the Thorsberg chape (DR7) and the Vimose planer (Vimose-Høvelen, DR 206).[citation...
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The rune is absent from the earliest Vimose inscriptions, but it is found in the Thorsberg chape inscription, dated to ca. AD 200. The rune may have...
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earliest inscriptions, e.g. in ansuz (Vimose buckle), þewaz (Thorsberg chape). It was presumably present in the Ovre Stabu spearhead inscription (ca. AD...
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Thorsberg moor (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
are of similar importance as the contemporaneous finds from Illerup and Vimose in Denmark. The moor was excavated in 1858–1861 by a teacher from Flensburg...
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Germanic peoples (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Runic inscriptions are found on organic materials such as wood, bone, horn, ivory, and animal hides, as well as on stone and metal. Inscriptions tend to...
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translating to "Battle-goddess") and probably also in an inscription from around 200 CE on a buckle from Vimose that reads a(n)sau wīja ("I dedicate this to the...
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Ancient text corpora (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Illerup and Vimose, in Germania 64, 1986, 75ff Peust 2000, pp. 259. Bernand, E.; Drewes, A.J.; Schneider, R. (1991). Recueil des inscriptions de l'Ethiopie...
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Castle Gundestrup cauldron, c. 200 BCE-300 CE, National Museum of Denmark Vimose Comb, c. 160 CE, National Museum of Denmark Accounts such as Grímnismál...
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early runic inscriptions (specifically the Vimose inscriptions, dated to the 2nd century CE, as well as the non-runic Negau helmet inscription, dated to...
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reflects the Common Germanic stage. The Vimose inscriptions include some of the oldest datable Germanic inscriptions, starting in c. 160 AD. The earliest...
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goddess") that appears on a Roman inscription from Tongeren, with a second early attestion on a Runic belt-buckle found at Vimose, Denmark from around 200 CE...
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