Bow brooch from Freilaubersheim

The so-called bow brooch from Freilaubersheim (KJ 144) or rune brooch from Freilaubersheim is a brooch of Franconian origin from the second half of the 6th century that was found near Frei-Laubersheim ( Rheinhessen , today the district of Bad Kreuznach , Rhineland-Palatinate ) in the 19th century has been. On the back there is a runic inscription in pre-High German .

Finding and describing

During archaeological excavations in 1873 on the parcel “Pfarracker” in Frei-Laubersheim, 21 body graves (as well as 10 older cremation graves) were found in situ in a Franconian Merovingian period cemetery . Numerous additions were secured in unnumbered women's graves, including pomegranate fibulae, pearls, rock crystal whorls, glass beakers and clay vessels. Among the finds there were also two paired, partially gilt and 9.5 cm long bow brooches made of silver, the second of which is runenbeschriftet on the back. The front of the fibulae shows on the semicircular head plate with notch-cut decorations a trim with five rounds, and the rhombic base plate forms a stylized animal head at the top. For the most part, the date today is from 520 to 560/65. The finds are in the Landesmuseum Mainz (Inv.No.N 1760).

inscription

The clockwise inscription is carved in two lines next to the pin of the clasp on the sides of the back of the footplate and is read (diplomatically) as:

ᛒᛟᛋᛟ: ᚹᚱᚨᛖᛏᚱᚢᚾᚨ
ᚦᚲ · ᛞᚨᚦᛇᚾᚨ: ᚷᛟᛚᛁᛞᚨ
boso: wraetruna
þk · daþïna: golida
Bōso wraet rūnā.
þ [i] k Dāþīna gōlida.

Klaus Düwel transfers:

Boso tore (wrote) the runes. You [the unnamed owner] greeted Dathina [the giver of the primer]. Alternatively he reads: He greeted you, Dathina [the owner] [the Ritzer and at the same time the giver Boso].

Wolfgang Krause:

Boso scratched the rune. Dathina greeted you.

Robert Nedoma:

Boso scratched the runes, you pleased (or: greeted) Daþina. Alternatively (less likely): you, Daþina pleased / he greeted you [d. H. Boso].

literature

Wolfgang Krause , Herbert Jankuhn : The runic inscriptions in the older Futhark I-II. Goettingen 1966.
Klaus Düwel : Runic lore. (= Metzler Collection. 72). 4th, revised and updated edition. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-14072-2 .
Robert Nedoma : Personal names in the South Germanic runic inscriptions. Studies on old Germanic onomastics I, 1, 1. (= Indo-European library. 3rd row: Investigations ). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1646-7 , pp. 250-256, 279-280. (Comprehensive literature references)

Martin Findell: Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes . 79). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025934-6 . ( Fee Germanic Altertumskunde Online at de Gruyter )

Web links

Profile of the primer of the rune project of the University of Kiel

Remarks

↑ Max Martin: Continental Germanic runic inscriptions and "Alamannic runic province" from an archaeological point of view. In: Hans-Peter Naumann (Ed.): Alemania and the north. International symposium from 18. – 20. October 2001 in Zurich. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes 43). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017891-5 , p. 176 (Fig. 5 B1), 179, 199. ( Germanische Altertumskunde online for a fee at de Gruyter).

[1] Max Martin: Continental Germanic runic inscriptions and "Alamannic runic province" from an archaeological point of view. In: Hans-Peter Naumann (Ed.): Alemania and the north. International symposium from 18. – 20. October 2001 in Zurich. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes 43). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017891-5 , p. 176 (Fig. 5 B1), 179, 199. ( Germanische Altertumskunde online for a fee at de Gruyter).