title: The runic inscription of the new zoomorphic amulet of Scandinavian jewelry traditions of the early Middle Ages, originating from the Middle Dniester of Republic of Moldova
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metadata.value: Bondar, Igor
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metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:38:34Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:38:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Bondar I. A. The runic inscription of the new zoomorphic amulet of Scandinavian jewelry traditions of the early Middle Ages, originating from the Middle Dniester of Republic of Moldova. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 150–168.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37461
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metadata.value: The present study focuses on the decipherment and interpretation of the unique runic
  inscription carved on the zoomorphic pendant of Scandinavian jewelry traditions.
  The new Scandinavian zoomorphic pendant of 10th century, originating from the region
  of Middle Dniester, Republic of Moldova. The graffito and amulet have no direct analogies.
  In the research paper the runic inscription is interpreted as the protection magical
  spell. The runic inscription is based on the ideographic runes of the Elder and the
  Younger Futhark. The runic inscription of a similar nature with this combination of
  graphemes has not yet been known in runology, and is first encountered. The inscription
  made in Scandinavian runes is the first discovery of a runic inscription in Republic of Moldova and the same time is the first written evidence of the presence of the Vikings
  in the Dniester-Prut Region. The research methodology is based on a comparison of the
  runic formula of the zoomorphic amulet inscription with the known analogies of the runic
  formulas inscribed on various artifacts of ancient German material culture. As much
  as the inscription contains archaic runes of the Elder Futhark and runes of the Younger
  Futhark, the study used the approach of identifying the semantic load of the runes used as
  ideograms with the meaning of their own names. In the present research paper, the retrospective
  method is used in the most famous examples of Scandinavian runes of the Elder
  and Younger Futhark as ideograms in the described runic inscriptions of the amulet and
  incantation character. The comparative method is also applied between compare runes as
  ideograms of the present inscription and the same runes as ideograms in the other cases
  of use in the similar or analogical context. Comparative and retrospective methods are
  also applied in the search for analogies of the use of runes in the meaning of own names
  in mixed inscriptions made by means of a combinations of older and younger runes. The
  study widely involved a significant amount of scientific work in the field of methodology
  of reading and interpreting runic inscriptions of famous runologists of 20th and 21st centuries.
  In scientific work were used ancient German literary sources, such as: Old Norse,
  Old Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon runic poems, Old Icelandic sagas about the gods and
  heroes of the Elder Edda and materials from written sources of the 11th–13th centuries
  were examined in detail and compared in the context of “magic runes” and mythopoeic
  concepts in mithological considerations. The archaeological context of this research includes
  both a comprehensive description of the most unique amulet, and the general layer
  of the most significant finds of the Viking Age and traces of the Scandinavian cultural
  presence in the Slavic and Old Russian world of the early Middle Ages in the area of the
  Dniester-Prut interfluve of present-day territory of Moldova.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Middle Dniester
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alcedar
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian jewelry traditions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: zoomorphic pendant
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: amulet
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: magic inscription
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: graffito
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ideographic runes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Elder Futhark
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Younger Futhark
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epigraphy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: introduction into scientific circulation
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The runic inscription of the new zoomorphic amulet of Scandinavian jewelry traditions of the early Middle Ages, originating from the Middle Dniester of Republic of Moldova
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metadata.value: Article
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