[gothic-l] Re: ØVRE STABU runes - from 2nd century.

[trbrandt at POST9.TELE.DK]

Hi Keth

As I read your quotes below and your first posting, the first 
spearhead with runes is found in Norway, the other spearheads found 
among Norwegean items are proven to be made by Norwegean iron, and no 
runes are found at all in the area of Germany where she claims the 
origin of the runes to be. 

This is really convincing. I hope for her that you let something out 
because this is Gothic List.

Troels

--- In gothic-l at y..., keth at o... wrote:
> I just checked Looijenga's book once more
> for the age of the oldest runic inscriptions.
> 
> First, Looijenga quotes Jørgen Ilkjær, the Danish
> archaeologist who has published the Illerup Årdal
> finds, who in a paper on 1996, that Looijenga
> refers to in Ch.3, page 40 of her book, states
> that the oldest runic object is the comb from
> Vimose, and gives 160 AD as its date.
> (combs can be dated accurately because of the
> organic material they are made from)
> The Vimose comb bears the inscription HARJA.
> (which incidentally is the same as the 1st part
> of the Negau name)
> 
> Then she is still quoting Ilkjær when she mentions
> that the Vennolum type lanceheads to which the
> runic lanceheads belong (Typ 15 in the catalog),
> were widespread in Scandinavia, but that only few
> lanceheads from the Continent show some similarity
> and that only one item from Poland is of the Vennolum
> type. Now the runic spearhead found at ØVRE SPARBU
> in Norway in 1890, belongs to the Vennolum type
> and has been dated to the second half of the 2nd
> century. It is thus of approximately the same age
> the HARJA comb found at Vimose. It is the SPARBU
> spearhead that has the afnmous RAUNIJAR inscription.
> 
> In another place I also read:
> "one of the oldest [runic] items from outside
> Denmark is the Norwegian ØVRE STABU spearhead
> of the Vennolum type (see Capter II, 4 and further),
> dated to the second half of the second century."
> 
> Ilkjær also found that iron ore from Nord Trøndelag
> (in middle Norway) had been used to manufacture the
> spearheads.
> 
> 
> I will finish by adding another Looijnga quote.
> On page 79 she writes:
> "Runic knowledge among the Goths, if there was any
> was most likely tied to Scandinavia, because the Goths
> originated from there, and because there were continuous
> contacts between Denmark and the Black Sea region in
> which the Goths had settled."
> 
> Best regards
> Keth
> 
> 
> 
> Also: MIRROR RUNES  and TREMOLO STYLE.


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