An Introduction to English RunesBoydell Press, 2006 - Всего страниц: 249 Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge. |
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The CaistorbyNorwich astragalus runes | 19 |
3 | 21 |
Post650 runic monuments | 26 |
4 | 39 |
The Hartlepool I namestone | 50 |
5 | 55 |
The Overchurch stone runes | 56 |
6 | 61 |
The Wheatley Hill ring | 169 |
The Whitby disc | 170 |
Christ and Mary on St Cuthberts coffin | 172 |
The Welbeck Hill bracteate | 180 |
The Dover brooch runes | 181 |
The Thames silvergilt mount | 182 |
The Undley bracteate with a schematic drawing of its runes | 183 |
The skanomodu solidus | 184 |
The AngloSaxon Runic Poem from Hickess Thesaurus | 64 |
The abbreviated name of Solomon in the Corpus Christi College | 78 |
Norse cryptic rune types from Bergen | 84 |
7 | 86 |
9 | 109 |
10 | 118 |
11 | 144 |
The fragmentary Southampton bone plaque | 160 |
12 | 161 |
The Manchester ring legend | 162 |
The Derby bone plate | 164 |
The Whitby comb | 165 |
The repairers inscription on the Harford Farm brooch | 166 |
The AshGilton pommel inscription | 167 |
The Southampton Hamwih bone | 168 |
13 | 187 |
Part of the runic passage from Solomon and Saturn I Corpus | 188 |
The Penrith brooch futhark | 205 |
The Bridekirk font runes | 207 |
The Conishead Priory runes | 209 |
14 | 210 |
New runic coin type from Billockby | 214 |
Runes on a sherd from Worcester | 219 |
Runic marginalia in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 41 | 220 |
The Orpington sundial | 223 |
Runic graffito from Monte Sant Angelo Italy | 224 |
The study of runes | 226 |
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