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	Vadstena bracteate - Open Encyclopedia
		The Vadstena bracteate (or rather bracteates since there are two of them) is a gold C-bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena in 1774.
		The bracteate is believed to have been minted at the end of the 6th century.
		In the middle of the bracteate is a four-legged animal with a man's head above it, and in front of this a bird separated from the other image by a line.
	www.openencyclopedia.net /index.php/Vadstena_bracteate (200 words)

	Bracteate info here at en.archetecture.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bracteate Gold bracteates from the migration period Gold bracteates from the migration period The Vadstena bracteate, a patterned C-bracteate.
		Several bracteates to boot trait runic alphabet inscriptions (a whole of 133 inscriptions on bracteates are known, amounting to more than a third of the gross Elder Futhark corpus).
		Silver bracteates are far from the migration expanse bracteates & were the wanted mold of coin minted in German-speaking areas, with the excepting of the Rhineland, induction at everywhere 1130 in Saxony & Thuringia & were taken ended of circulation at about 1520.
	en.archetecture.info /Bracteate (937 words)

	Bracteate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold coin produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age, but the name is also used for later prouced coins of silver produced in Central Europe during the early Middle Ages.
		The motifs are commonly connected to Norse mythology and are believed to be Norse pagan icons for divination and for this reason the bracteates are a target of iconographic studies by scholars interested in Norse belief systems.
		The study of Migration Period bracteates are considered a interdisciplinary field of Germanic art, Norse art, numismatics, archaeology, iconography, Norse mythology and runology.
	bracteate.peernet.sk (493 words)

	Bracteate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The native proto-Norse term, from the evidence of the Tjurkö bracteate inscription, appears to have been walha-kurn, "Welsh (i.e.
		In some cantons of Switzerland, bracteate-like rappen, heller, and angster were produced during the 18th century.
		Vendel period bracteates on Gotland : on the significance of Germanic art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bracteate (754 words)

	Runic inscriptions in Sweden
		The Vadstena - bracteate is considered to been made around 500 AD and on these c.
		Magic runes are often assumed on the gold bracteates, which was worn as decorations and often as protection objects or amulets.
		But the incomprehensibility can also derive from the fact, that the bracteates is imitations of Roman coins; first was copied the Latin inscriptions, often partially incorrect, in next stage was replaced with the runic alike signs and finally with the true runes, however without sense, which in another viewers went over to magic runes.
	www.runor.se /eng/eng06.htm (431 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Wodanaz
		The 6th century Vadstena bracteate, showing a horse, a bird and a human head commonly identified as an early form of Scandinavian Odin.
		Scandinavian Ã“Ã°inn emerged from Proto-Norse WÅdin during the Migration period, Vendel artwork (bracteates*, image stones) depicting the earliest scenes that can be aligned with the High Medieval Norse mythological texts.
		Gold bracteates as visual evidence?", Scandinavian studies, Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 71-4 (1999), 373â“392.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Wodanaz (3157 words)

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		The Vadstena bracteate (or rather bracteates since there are two of them) is a gold bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena in 1744.
		A goldsmith was about to recycle the gold by melting the bracteate but was hindered by a local clergyman, so that it was preserved.
		In the middle of the bracteate is a mans head on top of a four-legged animal, and in front of this chimera (creature), a bird separated from the other image by a line.
	runewebvitki.com (799 words)

	Elder Futhark Biography on DanceAge
		Another early inscription was found on the Vadstena bracteate (6th century), showing the division in three aetts, with the positions of ï, p and o, d inverted compared to the Kylver stone:
		They are usually short inscriptions on jewellery (bracteates, fibulae, belt buckles), utensils (combs, spinning whorls) or weapons (lance tips, seaxes) and were mostly found in graves or bogs.
		Their meaning is unclear, although alu has been associated with "ale, intoxicating drink", in a context of ritual drinking, and laukaz with "leek, garlic", in a context of fertility and growth.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_Older_Futhark (1525 words)

	Runes - an introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vadstena bracteate (bottom) made about a century later than the Kylver stone (from 400AD) has a magical rune sequence written on it that reads from right to left (pairs of points divide the 24 runes into three groups of eight).
		It's thought that the Bracteates' main distribution was from Denmark, however, not all are readable as some include runes that were written in garbled form; probably due to the inscriber who really didn't have a grasp of rune-writing (bracteates that had runes on them were seen as more respectable).
		Though Bracteates are seen to appear around 400AD, their disappearance in around 550AD serve as an important marker for the end of use of the 24-furthark.
	homepage.eircom.net /~jayem4646/runes.htm (6325 words)

	Norse art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold coin produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age, but the name is also used for later produced coins of silver produced in Central Europe during the early Middle Ages.
		Rune stones are standing stones with runic inscriptions dating from the Iron Age (Viking Age) and early Middle Ages.
		If you use exact copy or modified of this article you should preserve above paragraph and put also : It uses material from the Shortopedia article about "Norse art".
	www.shortopedia.com /N/O/Norse_art (434 words)

	BrownBird: January 2005
		A 24-character futhark (runic alphabet), arranged in three groups of eight symbols, is engraved on it, followed by eight characters, tuwa tuwa, of unknown, perhaps magical, significance.
		The bracteate is the oldest and best record of the
		Genus of extinct brachiopod, or lamp shell, of the Cambrian Period (from 540 to 505 million years ago).
	brownbird.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_brownbird_archive.html (1644 words)

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		Of more importance are the signs and representations found on monuments, with and without runes, on ornaments, and on the so-called bracteates, thin golden plates chased on one side and at times used as necklaces.
		These bracteates date from the sixth or seventh century onward; some have come down from the Viking period.
		the older one, futhark, found on the bracteate of Vadstena, and elsewhere) again yields testimony of the same general character as that which we have before had occasion to note; these written signs reached the North from the South,—in the present instance Italy,—not through direct communication, but by gradual transmission from tribe to tribe.
	www.woden.org /prehist.html (4695 words)

	What Are the Runes?
		On the other hand, the Grumpan bracteate has dagaz, "day," as the twenty fourth runestave and óþila as the twenty third.
		This appears to have been the case from the very beginning.
		Both the Vadstena bracteate and the Grumpan bracteate show the futhark divided into three sets of eight runestaves each, separated by dots.
	wodening.ealdriht.org /runes/runes.html (1209 words)

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	First Period Inscriptions
		On the Vadstena bracteate (Sweden) [see # 110 below], we find the doubled sequence tuwatuwa as well together with the runic alphabet."
		This one is called the Sjaelland bracteate by Moltke who translates farauisa as ‘one who is wise about dangers.’
		It ends therefore by a Futhark (where we can see that Othala precedes Dagaz) and where the three "aetts" are very well marked.
	www.nordic-life.org /nmh/Krause2.htm (3671 words)

	Runic Bibliography for 1996
		Hallencreutz, Carl F. "Jungfru Maria i nordisk missionstid." In Maria i Sverige under tusen år: Föredrag vid symposiet i Vadstena 6-10 oktober 1994, eds.
		Review of The Recasting of a Symbolic Value, by Frands Herschend (1994).
		"Maria i Sverige på 1000-talet." In Maria i Sverige under tusen år: Föredrag vid symposiet i Vadstena 6-10 oktober 1994, eds.
	ariadne.uio.no /runenews/nor_1997/bibl96.htm (3440 words)

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