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Viking Silver Trade Ingot with Runes
Viking Silver Trade Ingot with Runes
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8th-11th century AD. A silver ingot, D-shaped in section with rounded ends; two incised runic characters to the end of the flat face comprising a lozenge (old name: Inguz) and a vertical with two angled strokes (old name: fehu"). Cf. Montelius, O. Sveriges Forntid: Atlas I, Stockholm, 1874, plate 177, item 639; Thunmark-Nylén, L. Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II: Typentafeln, Stockholm, 1998, plate 287, item 5; Page, R.I. Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes, Woodbridge, 1998. 38 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a professional collector; acquired before 1990. The form of the Inguz rune is very early, predating the Viking period by some centuries. In the Viking period (the Younger Fuþark) the Inguz rune had been deleted and its sound-value taken over by the Kenaz rune alongside that of the Gebu rune. [No Reserve]
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Fine condition.
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Viking Silver Trade Ingot with Runes

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