دانلود کتاب Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

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Contents
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; Period I, legible and (partly) interpretable inscriptions
3. Illegible or uninterpretable inscriptions and single-rune inscriptions
4. Recent finds
5. Possibly runic, non-runic and ornamental signs
6. Summary and conclusions
CHAPTER NINE: RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS IN OR FROM THE NETHERLANDS
1. Introduction
2. Checklist; legible and interpretable inscriptions
3. Legible but uninterpretable inscriptions
4. Summary and conclusions
APPENDIX: SWEDISH AND NORWEGIAN INSCRIPTIONS IN THE OLDER FUÞARK
Sweden
1. Stones
2. Miscellaneous
3. Uncertain, or no runes
4. Conclusion
Norway
1. Stones
2. Brooches
3. Scrapers and a comb
4. Miscellaneous
5. Cliff inscriptions
6. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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