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Alu (runic)




  • The Lindholm amulet is a bone piece found in Skåne , dated to the 2nd to 4th centuries:

  • ::''ekerilazsawilagazhateka:aaaaaaaazzznnn?bmuttt:alu:''

:read as
::''ek erilaz sawilagaz hateka; "aaaaaaaazzznnn?bmuttt" alu.''
:Translated as "I, the Erilaz, am called Sawilagaz; ... charm". ''Sawilagaz'' means "the one of the Sun ( as an invocation of Tyr , and the eight ''As'' runes as an invocation or symbolic list of eight Æsir .


::''ek erilaz asugisalas muha haite, gagaga gin {Link without Title} u ga''
:Interpreted as "I, Asugisalaz am called Muha" followed by some sort of battle cry or chant "''ga-ga-ga'', many times ''ga''". Asugisalaz contains '' Ansu- '' "god" and ''gisala-'' "sprout, offspring". ''Muha'' may either be a personal name, or a word meaning "retainer" or similar. The runes of ''gagaga'' are displayed as a row of three Bindrune s based on the X-shape of the ''g'' rune with sidetwigs attached to its extremities for the ''a''. A similar sequence ''gïgogï'' is found on the Undley Bracteate .

  • Bracteate s Eskatorp-F and '''Väsby-F''' have ''e {Link without Title} erilaz''

  • Bratsberg clasp: ''ekerilaz''

  • Veblingsnes:''ekerilaz''

  • Rosseland: ''ekwagigazerilaz''

  • Järsberg: ''ekerilaz''

  • By: ''ekirilaz''

  • the Etelheim clasp has ''mkmrlawrta'' read as ''ek erla wrta'' "I, ''Erla'', wrote this".




EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.runenprojekt.uni-kiel.de/abfragen/standard/wortmaterial3.asp?wklasse=NAM&wordno=409

  • http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/arts/1997/j.h.looijenga/c5.pdf