Amulet from Lindholmen
The amulet from Lindholmen (KJ 29; DR 261) is a moor find from Svedala in Skåne in Sweden . The object, discovered in 1840 at the Lindholmen manor house, is inscribed with runes and came into the History Museum of the University of Lund in 1851 .
The slightly curved horn or leg piece has a length of about 16.0 and a maximum width of 1.8 cm. It has two oblique longitudinal surfaces and tapers towards the end. The runic inscription with the runic sequence ALU follows the direction of the inclined surfaces. The broad end bears an animal or fish head representation.
- A. ek erilaR sa wilagaR hateka:
- B. aaaaaaaaRRRnnn-b- muttt: alu:
- “I, the Erilaʀ here (= in this place), am called Wīlagaʀ (= the cunning). Ase (8x) - elk (3x) - distress (4x) - birch rice - human - aurochs - Týr (3x) - magic "
The amulet from Lindholmen shows analogies with the Norwegian piece of bone from Ødemotland . The find eludes dating. The circumstances of the find indicate, as in the case of the Danish finds from Fælleseje and Garbølle, to a ritual dumping in the Iron Age . The other small finds with runes are mostly from graves.
See also
literature
- Marie Stocklund: Lindholmen. Archaeological-Runological. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016950-9 , pp. 463-464.
- Lena Peterson: Lexicon över urnordiska personnamn. Institut för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2004, pp. 15, 18.