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The 'Tjurkö Bracteates' (DR BR75 U and DR BR76 U) are two bracteates (coins) found on Tjurkö, Eastern Hundred, Blekinge, Sweden, bearing Elder Futhark inscriptions, in Proto-Norse.
Tjurkö 1 or DR BR75 U, dated to between AD 400 and 650 (the Germanic Iron Age), now at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (SHM 1453:25).
It is a typical C-bracteate, like the Vadstena bracteate showing a stylized head in the center, above a horse and beneath a bird. This iconograpy is usually interpreted as depicting an early form of Odin with his associated animals (horse and raven). The inscription reads
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Transliteration:
:'wurte runoz an walhakurne heldaz kunimudiu'
Transcription:
:Wurte runoz an walhakurne Heldaz Kunimundiu
Translation:
:Heldaz wrought runes on 'the foreign grain' for Kunimundur.
It is of note that it contains the word ''walha'' (Welsh) which meant "foreigner", i.e. non-Germanic. While it is undisputed that ''walhakurne'' (the dative of ''
★ walha-kurna-'') refers to the bracteate itself, identification of the second element as "grain" (from Proto-Germanic ''
★ kurna-'', c.f. English ''corn'') is uncertain. An early loan from Latin ''corona'' "crown" has been suggested, but is unlikely ("crowns" as currency appear only in medieval times, from images of crowns minted on the coins' faces). The PN ''Helda-'' is derived from ''
★ heldī'' "battle", while ''Kunimundi-'' is from ''kuni-'' "kin, offspring, chieftain" (cognate to ''king'') and ''mundi-'' "protection".
Tjurkö 2, or DR BR76 U, is dated to the same period and has an inscription of just three runes, reading 'ota'.

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★ Erik Brate, ''Sverges runinskrifter'' (1922) [1]

★ Rundata

External links

★ http://www.arild-hauge.com/danske_runeinnskrifter4.htm

★ http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?table=mss&id=15292

★ http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?table=images&id=21004