Bergakker Revisited

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • J. Krüger
  • V. Busch
  • K. Seidel
  • C. Zimmermann
  • U. Zimmermann
Book title Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlüsselung: Rāði sār kunni
Book subtitle Beiträge zur Runologie, skandinavistischen Mediävisten und germanischen Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN
  • 9783110547382
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783110548136
  • 9783110547573
Series Ergänzungshefte zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde
Pages (from-to) 291-298
Publisher Berlin: De Gruyter
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract The runic inscription from Bergakker (Netherlands) presents some puzzles. First of all, it exhibits a rune form not attested elsewhere which presumably has to be understood as a variant of a u-rune. Furthermore, there is the combination wa, where the a-rune was carved before the w-rune. Although it has often been assumed that the language of the inscription is East Germanic, this article emphasizes that its language might also be regarded as an early stage of West Germanic.
Document type Chapter
Language German
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110548136-021 (Final published version)
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