Archaeologists have discovered a small knife with a completely unique runic inscription, thought to be almost 2,000 years old.
Archaeologists at the Odense Museum have discovered Denmark’s oldest runic inscription, Hilira, carved on the blade of a knife dating back about 2,000 years. The knife was found under the remains of an urn tomb in a small cemetery east of Odense on the island of Funen and has been dated to 150 AD.
The eight centimeter iron knife has five letters about half a centimeter high, followed by three grooves, spelling out Hilira, which means “little sword” in Old Norse.
These are Denmark’s oldest runes, along with a carved bone comb discovered nearby in 1865. The discoverer, city museum curator and archaeologist Jacob Bonde, initially thought it was an ordinary knife because he couldn’t see any runes, but when restorers cleaned it up, he discovered it contained words. said it has become clear.
The knife runes are written in the oldest known runic script, so this discovery is a very important part of understanding and interpreting the use of the oldest script in Denmark and the Nordic region. Become.
“It’s like receiving a note from beyond, from the past. This is an extraordinary discovery for us and tells us something about the development of early Scandinavian languages,” said Jakob Bonde.
Archaeologists at the Odense Museum cannot say for sure whether Hilira is the name of the knife itself or the name of its owner. However, there is no doubt that it was a valuable asset.
Lisbeth Immer, a rhinologist at the National Museum of Denmark, said:
“Finding runes as old as this knife is incredibly rare and is a unique opportunity to learn more about Denmark’s oldest written language, and by extension the language that was actually spoken during the Iron Age. Literacy was not very widespread, so being able to read and write was associated with special status and power. At the beginning of the history of runes, scribes constituted a small intellectual elite; The first traces of these people are found in Funen.
The knife, along with other artefacts discovered at the site, will be on display at the Odense Museum in Montergarten from February 2nd.
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