Oct 16, 2022
The title of my blog originates with a runic inscription, and it is fitting that my first blog post would cover that.
From Wikipedia:
“The Bergakker inscription is an Elder Futhark inscription discovered on the scabbard of a 5th-century sword. It was found in 1996 in the Dutch town of Bergakker, in the Betuwe, a region once inhabited by the Batavi. There is consensus that the find dates from the period 425-475 and that the inscription is either the singular direct attestation of Frankish (Franconian) or the earliest attestation of Old Dutch (Old Low Franconian).”
Bergakker inscription - Wikipedia
Additionally, here is an entry from ‘Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions’ (Looijenga, 2003) :