附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-377) and index.
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.
摘要:This work gathers all older fufark inscriptions found in Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Bosnia, Rumania, Norway and Sweden. It includes essays on early runic writing, the contexts of runic objects, and a theory on the origin of runic writing.
