I know that many readers of this blog are yearning to read a >900-page bok in German about the enigmatic inscriptions on Migration Period gold bracteates. Fret no more, Dear Reader! Svante Fischer just sent me a link to a 7.4 megabyte PDF file containing such a work: Sean Nowak's 2003 doctoral thesis Schrift auf den Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit, published by the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. Alu, lathu, laukaR!
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Back in August, I blogged about a paper I'd written on the chronology and iconography of Migration Period gold bracteates. It was published around the New Year and is now also available on-line in English. Please tell me what you think!
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Update 13 December: Florian at Astrodictum Simplex has translated the whole entry into German. Thank you, Florian!
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For those who don't speaka da Deutsche or don't fancy a download the size of Lichtenstein, there is a more accessible PDF in Engerlish concerning runes of this and other types here.
And if you don't even like the sound of that, then I can exclusively reveal that:
"Chance Alawin, Chance Alawin, Chance Alawin, Happy New Year Alawid!" is typical of the species.
Cool! Nice to see someone in alternative spirituality who really does their homework. (-;