Luren from Brudevælte
The Luren bog find from Brudevælte , north of Lynge on the Danish island of Zealand, consists of six Lurs that were so well preserved that they were still playable. The Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) was the first to use the Old Norse word luðr to describe the bronze instruments that were previously called horns.
In 1797, a farmer found three pairs of lurks near the peat ditch in the now-drained bog. It was the first, at the same time the largest and most famous Luren find in history. The length of the lurs is between 1.5 and 2.2 m. They are tuned differently and originated around 800–700 BC. Chr.
Most of the lurs come from depot finds . The fact that they were of great importance is not only indicated by the hoards with a cultic background, but also by the frequent depiction of Luren blowers on Bronze Age rock carvings . The lure blowers are usually shown in pairs. As a rule, the lurs were also found in pairs. A couple is always tuned to the same key. The tone sequence is limited to the natural scale, but a good wind player can produce a considerable range. The sound of the luras is powerful and full and strangely penetrating, most closely resembling the tenor and bass trombones.
The luras consist of a multi-part assembled, S-shaped tube, the sound plate at the top and the mouthpiece at the bottom. Lurs were cast from bronze with such a mastery that it is still not very clear to scientists how such a difficult casting technique was achieved with such perfection.
Five of Brudevælte's lurs are in the National Museum in Copenhagen . The sixth was given to the Russian Tsar Nicholas I in 1845 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Toner fra fortiden . The store Danske, Gyldendal, 2009-2019, Danish, 24 August 2017, accessed on 4 November 2019.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 20 ″ N , 12 ° 17 ′ 16 ″ E