Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Sister project The Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus is a roe deer astragalus (ankle bone) found in an urn at Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk, England in 1937.[1] The astragalus is inscribed with a 5th-century Elder Futhark inscription,[2] reading <templatestyles src="Script/styles_runic.css" />ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ Script error: No such module "Lang". "roe deer". The inscription is the earliest found in England, and predates the evolution of the specifically Anglo-Frisian Futhorc. As the urn was found in a cemetery that indicated some Scandinavian influence, it has been suggested that the astragalus may be an import, perhaps brought from Denmark in the earliest phase of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.[3] The inscription is an important testimony for the Eihwaz rune and the treatment of Proto-Germanic *ai. The h rune has the Nordic single-bar shape <templatestyles src="Script/styles_runic.css" />ᚺ, not the Continental double-bar <templatestyles src="Script/styles_runic.css" />ᚻ which was later adopted in the Anglo-Frisian runes.
References
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Further reading
- Bammesberger, A. 'Das Futhark und seine Weiterentwicklung in der anglo-friesischen Überlieferung', in Bammesberger and Waxenberger (eds.), Das fuþark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen, Walter de Gruyter (2006), Template:ISBN, 171–187.
- Hines, J. 'The Runic Inscriptions of Early Anglo-Saxon England' in: A. Bammesberger (ed.), Britain 400-600: Language and History, Heidelberg (1990), 437–456.