Die südgermanischen Runeninschriften

Düwel, Klaus; Nedoma, Robert; Oehrl, Sigmund

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“…The definitive end of the 2,000 years of relative genetic continuity from the Bronze throughout the Iron Age in southern Germany is marked by a sudden, sharp increase of Steppe-related ancestry during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. From a population genetic perspective, this is congruent with the arrival of Germanic-speaking tribes from northern Germany or Denmark during the migration period, as also documented by inscription records in the sixth-and seventh-century sites of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria 76 . Together with ancestry from eastern Europe introduced during the Middle Ages 54 , as well as more recent genetic influx from all over the globe, those ancestral populations form the gene pool of the present-day German population.…”

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Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Gretzinger,

Schmitt,

Mötsch

et al. 2024

Nat Hum Behav

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The early Iron Age (800 to 450 BCE) in France, Germany and Switzerland, known as the ‘West-Hallstattkreis’, stands out as featuring the earliest evidence for supra-regional organization north of the Alps. Often referred to as ‘early Celtic’, suggesting tentative connections to later cultural phenomena, its societal and population structure remain enigmatic. Here we present genomic and isotope data from 31 individuals from this context in southern Germany, dating between 616 and 200 BCE. We identify multiple biologically related groups spanning three elite burials as far as 100 km apart, supported by trans-regional individual mobility inferred from isotope data. These include a close biological relationship between two of the richest burial mounds of the Hallstatt culture. Bayesian modelling points to an avuncular relationship between the two individuals, which may suggest a practice of matrilineal dynastic succession in early Celtic elites. We show that their ancestry is shared on a broad geographic scale from Iberia throughout Central-Eastern Europe, undergoing a decline after the late Iron Age (450 BCE to ~50 CE).

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Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Gretzinger,

Schmitt,

Mötsch

et al. 2024

Nat Hum Behav

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“…ᚠ turned upside-down or mirrored is more of an obstacle for printing purposes than mirrored ᚿ, which looks exactly like ᛆ. Some publications, like the new edition of the South Germanic inscriptions in the Older Futhark, solve the problem by using the available signs and indicating the writing direction as a whole or for the single sign with an arrow (Düwel, Nedoma & Oehrl 2020), but some runic fonts also offer reversed and rotated runes (for example Futhark A, Gullskoen).…”

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“…This is a fact I learnt the hard way while assisting Klaus Düwel in his work on the new edition of South-Germanic runic inscriptions (Düwel, Nedoma & Oehrl 2020). Between 2009 and 2015, I was his Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (student assistant) and the person responsible for translating between what Herr Düwel wanted and what the computer could do, a job that turned out to be complex considering Klaus Düwel himself still wrote everything by hand and often struggled with understanding the limitations of the machine.…”

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Data-Based Runes Macrostudies. On the Bryggen Runic Inscriptions

Magin

2023

The Bryggen Papers

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This volume of The Bryggen Papers focuses on the almost 700 runic inscriptions found over the course of the Bryggen excavations in Bergen, Norway. The medieval inhabitants of Bergen inscribed runes onto a variety of materials: wooden sticks, bones, ceramics and even leather shoes. The topics they wrote about varied, ranging from religious invocations to vulgar descriptions of their fellow townspeople. Nor were these inscriptions static; it is possible to identify trends in the way inscriptions changed over time with the development of the medieval settlement, influenced by concurrent historical events. Information as to the potential geographic origins and social status of some of the carvers, who saw fit to record their names, can also be derived from the inscriptions.This interdisciplinary study exemplifies how the theoretical framework of relational databases can be utilised to support in-depth comparisons of runic inscriptions. Rather than being a more traditional study of the content of the inscriptions, it assesses the suitability of different data models and demonstrates how relational database management systems can become powerful tools for conducting runological research, benefiting the broader field of runology and epigraphic studies in general. The study also makes use of the digital format by directly linking to other runic databases to supplement the information provided here. The authorElisabeth Maria Magin, PhD (b. 1987) has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Proto-and Prehistoric Archaeology and Scandinavian Philology from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, and received her doctoral degree for her interdisciplinary thesis on the runic inscriptions from Bryggen at the School of English, University of Nottingham. She has taught Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian literature and runology at the universities of Bergen and Oslo, and worked for several years as an assistant on the edition of South Germanic runic inscriptions published in 2020. She is currently undertaking a MSCA (Marie Curie-Skłodowska Actions) project aiming to create the infrastructure for digital editions of runic inscriptions at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.

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“…The South Germanic runic inscriptions (in which, by the way, both left-to-right and right-to-left texts occur, as is generally the case in the Older Fuþark) are usually very short and lack syntax; it is not uncommon for them to be one-word inscriptions. Most of them are personal names, whereby it usually remains unclear whether the persons mentioned represent the owner, the carver, the manufacturer or the donor (Nedoma 2011;2004;Düwel et al 2020:CXI-CXXVI). In any case, the mention of women's names slightly predominates.…”

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“…(1) Non-lexical runic inscriptions ("nonsense inscriptions"), (2) rune-like inscriptions ("pseudo-inscriptions") and (3) the use of rune-like or other signs within runic inscriptions ("quasi characters", paraschriftliche Zeichen) are very common in the Older Futhark period, and particularly in the South Germanic material (Graf 2010;Oehrl 2020).…”

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A rune-like carving on a terra sigillata bowl from the early medieval cemetery of Deiningen, Bavaria

Oehrl

2023

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Die südgermanischen Runeninschriften

Cited by 11 publications

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Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Data-Based Runes Macrostudies. On the Bryggen Runic Inscriptions

A rune-like carving on a terra sigillata bowl from the early medieval cemetery of Deiningen, Bavaria

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