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	Golden horns of Gallehus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The horns have probably been used for ritual drinking and subsequently sacrificed in the earth or buried as a treasure, though this is also uncertain.
		The first horn (the long, intact one) was 75,8 centimeter measured on the outer perimeter, the opening diameter was 10,4 centimeter, and weighed 3,2 kg.
		This horn was discovered on July 20, 1639 by a peasant girl named Kirsten Svendsdatter in the village of Gallehus, near Møgeltønder when she saw it protrude above the ground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_horns_of_Gallehus (778 words)

	Golden horns from Gallehus
		Maybe the golden horns from Gallehus were made for a treaty when the Angles and Jutes immigrated to England in fifth century.
		The old man with a horn is found as relief on a stone in the cellar of a church at Rügen Germany then neighbours of the Angles.
		The "dog-heads" we see on the horns and they were the "ulvhedins" in "wolfguise" as opposite to the "bearguise" for the heroes.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~catshaman/23erils2/0horn.htm (2843 words)

	The woman with the drink
		The woman also had horns and glasses in the grave, so she was amply equipped to welcome guests.
		On the long horn is a figure dressed in a long gown holding a horn in both hands.
		In some versions of the story, the goblet or horn remains in the ownership of the family for a long time, in other he gives it to the local church to use as an altar-vessel.
	home3.inet.tele.dk /evakoch/drik-uk.htm (2049 words)

	Dancing Men
		Their smooth, curving horns are unmistakably those of a bull, whilst their ridged crests bear the heads of birds of prey.
		A horned nude figure, such as that from a crude stone carving at the fort of Alauna at Maryport in Cumbria (fig (v)), is often identified as the Romanised god Belatucadrus ("Bright Shining One").
		Another scene in which the horned man appears from the pressblech of Valsgarde 7 and also 8 is that of a horseback warrior whose spear he guides or hinders -associating him possibly with the outcome of battles.
	www.millennia.demon.co.uk /ravens/dancing.htm (2171 words)

	The Royal Library - Copenhagen: Gateway to Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1802 the golden horns from Gallehus were stolen from "Kunstkammeret" (the Cabinet of Curiosities) at Slotsholmen.
		The horns had been discovered as early as 1639 and 1734, but only after the theft did they become famous outside the circles of people with an interest in history.
		The theft of the Golden Horns became the subject for broadside ballads too, like for example this one: En merkværdig nye Vise om det store uhørte Tyverie paa Konstkamret...
	www.kb.dk /kultur/expo/porten/cult96/sect2-1.htm (2251 words)

	Enlightenment - The Experience Festival
		Golden horns of Gallehus is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The Elder Futhark (or Older Futhark, Old Futhark) are the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and other Migration period Germanic dialects of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artefacts (jewellery, amulets, tools, weapons) and rune stones.
		In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal stylistic device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
	www.experiencefestival.com /golden_horns_of_gallehus (997 words)

	Nationalmuseet - Danish prehistory
		The girl´s clothes are well preserved and of the type that was commonplace throughout the Bronze Age - a short woven wool shirt and a short skirt made of cords with a band at the top and bottom.
		Both horns were put on display in the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities.
		After studying the old police reports from 1802, two new horns were made in 1979, which are thought to be closer to the originals than the previous copies.
	www.natmus.dk /sw33830.asp (761 words)

	Sacred Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It roused great interest when it was discovered because of its resemblance to the Adam and Eve story, but it is simply a sacred marriage icon, the horned figure on the right being the king and that on the left the priestess who customarily stood in for the goddess.
		Most intriguing, though, is the 'fence' which tames them, and the shape of the triple crown, which may suggest an origin for the 'butterly frame' worn in contemporary southwest Amerind festivals by unmarried girls.
		This charming scene of the meeting of Joachim and Anne, parents of the Virgin, at the Golden Gate, portrays the moment when Anne tells her husband that despite her age she has conceived a child.
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	Northvegr - The Religious Practices of the Pre-Christian and Viking Age North
		The custom of using a bulls horn to drink the full with is one that is undoubtedly an ancient one.
		These horns date from the fifth century and one of them was inscribed with runes.
		There are many depictions of a female figure carrying a horn and this could be an indication that the bearing of the horn of mead might have been traditionally done by a woman and this position might have been one of honor.
	www.northvegr.org /northern/book/religious009.php (2061 words)

	Mythology » Encyclopedia of Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Minos, to test this boast, tossed a golden ring into the sea and requested the hero to bring it back to him.
		Eurystheus next commanded Hercules to bring to him the golden apples which the Hesperides, daughters of Atlas and Hesperus, guarded in their fabulous garden at the western extremities of the world.
		Her hooves were of bronze and her horns of gold.
	www.mythology.totalroute.net /category/encyclopedia-of-mythology (5808 words)

	Religious Practices of the Pre-Christian North Lesson B Text & Questions
		And there is Deitrich which Grimm theorizes is based on an earlier legend concerning Freyr who rides a golden boar in a procession and there is the heroes banquet in which the boar is led around the benches in a procession, albeit a short one.
		As is possibly indicated from chapter 40 of Ynglinga saga it seems that the ale or mead that was drank came from a hallowed cauldron.
		In 1805 the hides of horned creatures were given to the church in one remote district in Sweden until a bishop objected because he thought (rightly so) that it looked too much like a Heathen custom.
	northernway.org /school/onw/teutonic/1stDeg/practicesB.html (16462 words)

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		Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder, lies the place where the famous golden horns of Gallehus were discovered (Gallehus, Guldhornsvej).
		Guldhornsstenene) remind of the two horns of pure gold weighing about 3 kg each, which were found in 1639 and 1734.
		The artefacts have been dated to 400 A. D., but as the original golden horns were stolen from the Royal Treasury and melted down in 1802, the dating remains imprecise.
	www.grenzroute.com /SEEEMS/5949.asp (5350 words)

	Proto-Norse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There is a body of about 200 Elder Futhark runic carvings of which the earliest are from about 200 CE.
		The inscription found on the Golden horns of Gallehus is the most famous example and comes from the 4th century.
		In P-N, the stress was always on the first syllable, which meant that the syncope happened later in the word.
	proto-norse.iqnaut.net (442 words)

	Ancient History
		Ever since Denmark became a maritime country the Danes have been able to pick up from their beaches the stuff we call amber, a golden resin, which originated from the coniferous forests of the Tertiary Age.
		About thirty have been found in present-day Denmark alone, several of them admittedly more or less destroyed, but others so well preserved that they can still be played to this very day and thus enable us to hear the same sounds that once echoed three thousand years ago.
		The horns were worth a fortune in their day and were presumably sacred too.
	www15.dht.dk /~2westh/lauring1.html (10742 words)

	Ruth's Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	Anglo-Scandinavian Golden Age
		Only golden bract with something like a warrior from Aars N. Jutland.
		We find their world order and myths on long golden horns and on nearly thousand golden medallions and golden bracts.
		Gallehus, golden horn, drinking-horn, hospitalitas, foedorati, Jutes' horn, the Stag, Horn Dance, Otherworld, Bear Maiden, Angles' horn, thula, thegn, binding the Fenriswolf,
	www.catshaman.com /in/indexAE.htm (1091 words)

	Anglo Saxon ideas
		For instanced "The Horned One" is known as Cernunnos even in France and there are some rock carvings in the Alps too.
		On the golden bract we can define one of them as LAUKAR since the text in runes is together with a figure.
		On nearly 1000 golden bracts and 400 texts there is not a sign of Odin 300 - 500 AD in Scandinavia and that means the nobility did not use the name.
	www.catshaman.com /23erils2/0Anglo2.htm (10882 words)

	Dance in the Northern Tradition
		(13) The golden horns of Gallehus depict figures engaged in dancing, ball-playing, and acrobatics believed to be, by some scholars, representations of the gods and seasonal ceremonies connected with their worship.
		Bronze age figures were found grouped around a larger female figure believed to be a goddess of fertility, and of these only one female figure remains -- wearing a short, corded skirt and neckring, her figure bent back until her head touches the ground in the posture of an acrobat or dancer.
		(50) It is interesting to note a drinking horn is included in the dance, and another custom from Northumberland explains a dressing out of stools with a cushion of flowers at Midsummer, which is taken around the village for the collection of money.
	www.friggasweb.org /dancetxt.html (9467 words)

	Golden French Horns
		Maybe the golden horns from Gallehus were made for a treaty when the Angles and Jutes immigrated to That is one of the oldest symbols we know from the French caves.
		Depending on the style of music the Immediately after hearing the French hunting horns von Sporck instructed that two men of his consort Louis Brass
		Custom leadpipes and mouthpieces.French repeated and held in such high regard that one might consider this them to be from the golden Golden Ball To the sound of firecrackers and cheap car horns supporters waving French flags mingled with counterparts from Trumpets
	www.highwaysix.com /golden-french-horns.htm (217 words)

	! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Article - Thor - Lord of the Senses - by Rurik Grimnisson !
		A depiction of a fight with a three-headed monster was recorded on one of the pair of the Gallehus horns (400-575 CE) unearthed in north Schleswig in the 17th-18th century.
		It offers the opportunity for mankind to exercise some control over his destiny and his environment, to manifest a society that is supportive of the individual and the collective, while maintaining a balance with nature.
		On the deepest level Thor is the ‘awakened or illumined mind’ [Sanskrit Hari – ‘golden’ or ‘illumined’], ‘Lord of the heavens’, ‘Lord of the senses’ – ‘one who has attained control over his senses’.
	www.aetaustralia.org /articles/arrgthorlordsenses.htm (1936 words)

	Where can I find Alliterative Verse information? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Golden horns of Gallehus, conceived in Denmark 'n anticipated meeting to the fourth century, bears that Runic inscription in Proto-Norse:
		Even later, William Langland's Piers Plowman is a main slogging in English that's written in alliterative verse; it was written inserted 1360 'n 1399.
		Though a million senescence have cuted inserted that slogging 'n the Golden Horn of Gallehus, the poetic treatment remains lots the same:
	en.12-volt-coffee-maker.info /Alliterative_verse (3172 words)

	Alliterative verse
		The Golden horns of Gallehus, discovered in Denmark and likely dating to the fourth century, bears this Runic inscription in Proto-Norse:
		Even later, William Langland's Piers Plowman is a major work in English that is written in alliterative verse; it was written between 1360 and 1399.
		Though a thousand years have passed between this work and the Golden Horn of Gallehus, the poetic form remains much the same:
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/alliterative_verse.html (2567 words)

	The sacred archer
		The bow appears occasionally in the hand of an archer on gold bracteates of the Migration period, and also on the Gallehus horns from fifth century Denmark.
		In one scene an archer is aiming at a horse which seems to be marked out for sacrifice and in another at a hind with her fawn.
		She was “Boisterous Artemis, archer of the golden bow, Bowman’s sister” (Iliad 20), racing through the forests with her accompanying nymphs and her hounds, ever ready to shoot her arrows, and is “the wild goddess of the woods”.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/archer.htm (5394 words)

	New Page 4
		Og der er Gallehus, hvor guldhornene blev fundet.
		Also Gallehus, where the Golden Horns were found.
		The actual area is full of experiences, and to this belongs Brede Å from the ridge to the Rømø Dam, though straightened the nature has survived, a joy to every angler.
	www.bredebro-camping.dk /serv.htm (962 words)

	The Bitter Scroll: Old Germanic Poetry
		One of the oldest runic inscriptions, and probably the most famous, is from one of the the now lost Golden Horns of Gallehus.
		It has been called proto-Norse, but the forms it exhibits could just as easily be the ancestor of German, Saxon, or English, as of the Scandinavian languages (and it's not really all that far off from Gothic either).
		This inscription dates from as far back as the 4th century, yet we can still see four major stressed syllables, connected by alliteration.
	bitterscroll.blogspot.com /2006/03/old-germanic-poetry_11.html (1104 words)

	150 mythological pictures by Alex Fantalov
		The meaning of Sumerian and Harappa arts (especially of seals) for statement of the god' basic types and plots (the Great Godess, the Horned God, the bull tormented by lion).
		The character of Hero as a rider (the Thracian golden plaques, Thracian and Illirian stone relieves).
		Especially I have spared attention for such objects as the bowl from Gundestrup, the products of Romano-Gaulish art, the gold horns from Gallehus, the helmets and the gold bracteats of the Vendel period; the objects of the early Slav art and the findings from Balkan.
	www.geocities.com /fantalov/homepage.htm (2055 words)

	Denmark - Culture - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The earliest evidence of musical activities in Denmark are the large, twisting bronze horns dating from the Bronze Age.
		The same applies to the two golden horns found in Gallehus, which some people have interpreted as musical instruments.
		The scant knowledge about musical life in Denmark in the period up to and around the introduction of Christianity derives from the scaldic poetry, sagas and chronicles which the historian Saxo Grammaticus also used as the basis of his history of Denmark,
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-11.asp (448 words)

	Tenets: An odd site by an odd author
		Much of the interest in runes seems to have originated with Ole Worm, an antiquarian equivalent to Stukeley or Dee, who was also interested in taxidermy, fossils (determining that certain horns came from narwhals and not unicorns) and helped established the botanical gardens in Copenhagen.
		Finally, there is a room dedicated to rune stones, contained several showing Swastikas and Triskeli as well as Futhark inscriptions (though it has to be said that it would seem preferrable for these stones to remain outside).
		The treasury in the basement houses the Gallehus horns (depicting a horned god), planet and eclipse machines, rock crystal goblets, an altar set with a skull at the base of the chalice and the crown jewels.
	www.logopolis.org.uk /tenets/index.html (16893 words)

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