Lance blade from Wurmlingen
The lance blade from Wurmlingen (sometimes also listed as a lance tip or spear blade ) is an archaeological find of a lance blade with runic inscription and symbols or ornaments in silver inlaid .
Find history
During the construction of the Gäubahn , a Merovingian burial ground at the northwest exit of the village of Wurmlingen (today a municipality in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg ) and an Alemannic burial ground at the southwest exit of the village were cut at various times. The cemetery was first examined in 1866/67.
In 1929, during the double-track expansion of the Gäubahn by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the row grave field was again encountered in the area of today's railway station in Wurmlingen Mitte , at the intersection of the railway with the road to Konzenberg . Whereupon it was excavated under the direction of Walther Veeck according to the state of knowledge at the time .
The said lance leaf could be recovered from grave 2, a man's grave. A total of 75 graves were examined here.
nature
The approximately 27 centimeter long lance blade has a shape that is common from Scandinavia to Italy. The specimen found can be dated to the last third of the 6th century. It was originally placed on a wooden shaft via a square spout . The Wurmlinger lance blade is decorated on both sides with ornaments inlaid with silver . On one side there is a rune inscription inlaid with silver. The side without runes has four tuning fork-like symbols below the central rib, which alternate mirrored. Behind it is another sign that resembles a "G". The right-hand runic inscription ᛬ᛞᛟᚱᛁᚻ , which is to be transliterated as : dorih (the earlier reading idorih is to be rejected) is on the lower edge. With the single spelling of double consonants common in runic writing, the sequence can be transcribed as dorrih , which is certainly to be interpreted as a personal name. Rune-like fantasy signs can be seen on the upper edge. It can be assumed that the inscription was specially made for the burial together with the belt fittings found.
meaning
The importance of this inscription lies in the fact that the oldest pre-Old High German evidence of the second sound shift that has occurred can be found here. The hind link belongs urgerm with a sound shift. * k > ahd. h to urgerm. * rīka - 'rich, powerful'.
Lost property
The finds were transferred to the State Collection of Antiquities (today the Archaeological Collections of the State Museum Württemberg in the Old Palace in Stuttgart ). In addition to the lance blade, the grave goods found at the time included a broken sax , the remainder of a knife, fragments of the belt set, an oval bowl and a button.
literature
- Walther Veeck: The excavation in the Alemannic cemetery at the bus stop in Wurmlingen, OA. Tuttlingen . In: Tuttlinger Heimatblätter , 1929, pp. 35–39.
- Walther Veeck: The Alemanni in Württemberg (= Roman-Germanic Commission of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire, Germanic monuments of the migration period) , Berlin-Leipzig 1931. S. 25ff.
- Friedrich E. Grünzweig: Runic inscriptions on weapons: Inscriptions from the 2nd century AD to the High Middle Ages - Vienna 2004. pp. 129–131. ISBN 3-7069-0227-3
- Robert Nedoma: Personal names in South Germanic runic inscriptions (= studies on old Germanic onomatology, vol. 1,1,1). Heidelberg 2004. ISBN 3-8253-1646-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Peter Naumann, Franziska Lanter u. a .: Real Lexicon of Germanic Classical Studies , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-014510-3 [1]