A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe...
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Vadstena bracteate (Rundata Ög 178, IK 377.1) is a gold C-bracteate found in the ground at Vadstena, Sweden, in 1774. Along with the bracteate was a gold...
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Alu (runic) (redirect from Funen bracteate)
Uppåkra bracteate (DR NOR2002;10), a C-bracteate found in Uppåkra, Scania, Sweden during a search with a metal detector in 2000. The bracteate bears a...
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Bract (redirect from Bracteate (botany))
such as the petals or sepals. A plant having bracts is referred to as bracteate or bracteolate, while one that lacks them is referred to as ebracteate...
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marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Undley bracteate is a 5th-century bracteate found in Undley Common, near Lakenheath, Suffolk. It bears...
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The Grumpan bracteate, designated as runic inscription Vg 207 by Rundata, is a gold type C bracteate found in Västergötland, Sweden in 1911. It is dated...
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The Tjurkö Bracteates, listed by Rundata as DR BR75 and DR BR76, are two bracteates (medals or amulets) found on Tjurkö, Eastern Hundred, Blekinge, Sweden...
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*Frijjō (redirect from B7-bracteate)
Orion's Belt is known as her distaff or spindle. The "woman" type of bracteates (Frauenbrakteaten, type B7, also called Fürstenberg or Oberwerschen type)...
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Seeland-II-C (redirect from Sjaelland bracteate 2)
(Sjælland bracteate 2) is a Scandinavian bracteate from Zealand, Denmark, that has been dated to the Migration period (around 500 AD). The bracteate bears...
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t b e m l ŋ o d The Grumpan bracteate presents a listing from 500 which is identical to the one found on the previous bracteates but incomplete: f u þ a r k g w...
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Coinage of Saxony (section Bracteate period)
comprises three major periods: the high medieval regional pfennig period (bracteate period), the late medieval pfennig period and the thaler period, which...
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Flemingia strobilifera (redirect from Bracteate flemingia)
Flemingia strobilifera, commonly known as the luck plant or wild hops, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, and subfamily Faboideae...
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may depict Odin with one of the ravens include Migration Period golden bracteates, Vendel era helmet plates, a pair of identical Germanic Iron Age bird-shaped...
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stronghold Valhalla with the broken spear and withdrawn from worldly matters. Bracteate Gae Bolga, the Irish legendary hero Cú Chulainn's similar magic spear...
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Pliezhausen brooch (redirect from Pliezhausen bracteate)
The Pliezhausen brooch (also known as the Pliezhausen disc, Pliezhausen bracteate or Pliezhausen disc brooch) (German: Reiterscheibe von Pliezhausen) is...
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Berlin, Brandenburg) as seen on one of the five emissions of the silver bracteate of Iakša (Jaxa), a Christian state, fief of Poland (archbishops of Gniezno)...
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to Odin by name is found on a C-bracteate discovered in Denmark in 2020. Dated to as early as the 400s, the bracteate features a Proto-Norse Elder Futhark...
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Brass replica of the Tjurkö bracteate showing the word ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ walhakurne ('Roman grain', i.e. gold coin)...
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archaeological record depict Týr. For example, a Migration Period gold bracteate from Trollhättan, Sweden, features a person receiving a bite on the hand...
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Swastika (Germanic Iron Age) (section Bracteates)
Period bracteates. The swastika is drawn either left-facing or right-facing, sometimes with "feet" attached to its four legs. Medallions and bracteates featuring...
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common runic script, various common objects of material culture such as bracteates and gullgubber (small gold objects) and the confrontation with Rome as...
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archaeological record depict Týr. For example, a Migration Period gold bracteate from Trollhättan, Sweden, features a person receiving a bite on the hand...
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Floral formula Br ✶ ☿ P3+3+Corona A3+3 G(3) Bracteate, Actinomorphic, Bisexual Perianth: 6 tepals in 2 whorls of 3 Stamens: 2 whorls of 3 Ovary: Superior...
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considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various Migration Period bracteates. In the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and Heimskringla, Hel is referred to...
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The gold bracteate of Pliezhausen (sixth or seventh century) shows typical iconography of the pagan period. The bracteate depicts the "horse-stabber underhoof"...
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9th-century Snoldelev Stone from Ramsø, Denmark, and numerous Migration Period bracteates drawn left-facing or right-facing. The pagan Anglo-Saxon ship burial at...
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A Migration Period Germanic gold bracteate depicting a bird, horse, and stylized human head with a Suebian knot...
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grave, 2nd century AD Stylized head with bird and horse on the Funen bracteate, Migration Period, 5th–7th centuries AD Suebian knot on the coat of arms...
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felted beneath. Single to several flowering stems from each rosette bear bracteate or ebracteate, simple, one-headed inflorescence-capitulum. Capitula are...
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Valdemar I 1157 bracteate depicting Valdemar and his wife, Sophia King of Denmark Reign 1154 – 12 May 1182 Predecessor Sweyn III Successor Canute VI Born...
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