Heill Diego,

Interesting theory. However, I heard the Greek theory was dismissed due
to the date of the first find? But one wasn't dismiss the importance of
the Greek script; the Phoenician alphabet of consanants was taken over by
the Greeks around 1000-900 BC. In this, the Greeks adopted the forms and
sounds value from the Phoenician letters. The Greeks where the ones to
apply a permanent vowel signs and added a few more consonants (Moltke:
1985, 45). However I am sure many in this list already knows this.

This theory your working on could prove strong if you consider the trade
routes? I heard something similar to what you mentioned and will have to
review the information more to come to a better answer. I believe it was
from this source:

THE MANX NOTE BOOK: Containing Matters Past and Present connected with the
Isle of Man. Edited by A.W.Moore.

If you have anymore information on this please share it;-).

However, there is alot of inscriptions I have pondered on. Say for
instance on 'erilar'. Mees consider this to be a social status just lower
than a king. Antonsen has agreed with this, however says the names that
follow on some of the inscriptions is feminine? WOW, a new light showing
that the earl/jarl was maybe a woman? Shows interesting thoughts to how
limited we are in understanding the truth? Antonsen agrues that
Proto-Norse weak names ending in -o as feminine names. He discovered this
with the names: Wagnijo [way-farer], Na<thorn>ijo [relative]. Theories
been set as possible a woman smith, however the weight of the agrument is
laying more on a woman chieftain/landowner?


ref: Elmer H. Antonsen, "Where Have All the Women Gone?," in Runica,
Germanica, Mediaevalia (Wilhelm Heizmann & Astrid van Nahl, eds.,
2003), pp. 9-19.

Heill ok vel,

Mike

> SÃ|ll Mike,
> and welcome to the group. I pick up your self-introduction to
> introduce myself as well. I'm a student in Germanic Philology at
> Bologna University, Italy, and I am currently spending an exchange
> year in Norway at Oslo University to study Runology and Old Norse. I
> entered the group for the first time a couple of years ago, when I
> used to learn ON by myself; then I left, and now that I'm attending
> university courses about it I've entered the group again. Since we
> share common interests I'm looking forward to share ideas and
> opinions with you through the group; I am currently working on a
> review of all recent theories about runes' origins, trying to
> demonstrate that runic script has come to the Germanics via Celtic
> tribes in pre-Roman Gaul and Raetia which used both Greek and
> Northern Etruscan alphabets. I hope that also someone else is
> interested in the topic. What do you think about that?
> Kveiðja,
> Diego
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