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Die Runeninschrift auf dem Rinderknochen von Břeclav, Flur Lány (Südmähren, Tschechische Republik)
| Title in English | The runic inscription on bovine rib from Břeclav - Lány (South Moravia, Czech Republic) |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | NOWELE. North-western European language evolution |
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| Citation | |
| web | John Benjamins |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00036.mac |
| Keywords | runes; Germanic people; Slavs; Moravia |
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| Description | 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 futark – 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?) |
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