期刊名称：Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies
电子版ISSN：1892-0950
出版年度：2012
期号：3
页码：151-213
出版社：University of Oslo & Uppsala University
摘要：From the Migration Period we now have more than a thousand stamped gold pendants known as bracteates. They have fascinated scholars since the late seventeenth century and continue to do so today. Although bracteates are fundamental sources for the art history of the period, and important archaeological artifacts, for runologists their inscriptions have played a minor role in comparison with other older-futhark texts. It is to be hoped that this will now change, however. If so, it will be thanks largely to those German runic scholars who during recent decades have dedicated themselves to studying inscriptions on bracteates. Due to continual increase in the material, bracteate corpuses have been assembled repeatedly. In the first universal compilation of runic inscriptions, Johan Liljegren (1833, 255 note b) mentions that over twenty have been found but that their runelike symbols are of unknown character and content. This was, of course, before the decipherment of the older futhark. The most recent bracteate inventory is that of Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit: Ikonographischer Katalog (hereafter IK), parts 1‒3, published in seven volumes 1985‒89 under the auspices of the immensely productive Karl Hauck (1916‒2007). The catalogue has been supplemented by a volume on production problems and chronology by Morten Axboe (IK, 4.1) in 2004, one by Alexandra Pesch on bracteate groupings in 2007 (IK, 4.2),
