Die Runeninschrift auf dem Rinderknochen von Břeclav, Flur Lány (Südmähren, Tschechische Republik)
During recent excavations at Břeclav-Lány (southern Moravia, Czech Republic), archaeologists have found a
fragmented bovine rib with runes. The rib was unearthed in an early Slavic pit-house and is radiocarbon- dated to ca. 600. The
inscription begins at the break line and reads xbemdo (probably tbemdo), representing six of the last
eight runes of the older fuþark – it seems that the lost piece of the rib exhibited the preceding part of the rune row. There is
reason to believe that the carver was a Langobard who did not join the migration into northern Italy in 568 (or, alternatively, a
Slav who learned and used the Germanic script?).
Article outline
- 1.Archäologischer Befund (Jiří Macháček)
- 2.Runeninschrift (Robert Nedoma)
- 3.Fazit (Jiří Macháček, Robert Nedoma)
- Danksagung
- Anmerkungen
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Literatur
Article language: German